347.3 Resource potential of the Russian mentality: Adapting to global complexity

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 3:00 PM
Faculty of Economics, TBA
Distributed Paper
Marina NEGROVA , Scientific Research Institute of Complex Social Research of the Faculty of Sociology, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Modern society is undergoing significant changes and there is the challenge of adapting into the resulting complexity of systems and people  included in them. The last 20 years of the Russian history have been marked by significant transformations under the influence, first of all, of external factors for the Soviet Union and have given the extensive factual material. The old ruined structure was transformed into a new one, appropriate to the spirit of the time. The author's vision of the Russian transformations is offered in line with global trend complexity, fluidity of society based on the analysis of Russian and foreign concepts, empirical data. The speaker proves the assumption that the mentality in its entirety contains all displayed mentalities and their development/deployment of social, causes/determines the development of society. The purpose of the research on the basis of the report is to look for the birth of new functionality from available assumptions in the Russian mentality, and analysis of the Russian mentality with a view to resources to promote adaptation of Russian society into the process of global complexity. Flowing from one state to another, the Russian mentality becomes more complicated with new meanings and gives impulses for a new social, and latent form gain explicit manifestation. The results of reconstruction of the image of the world of  the Russian median class representatives, as people with the most typical of average characteristics of Russian society, are also presented in the report. Due to the fact that national picture of the world is fixed in the language, the analysis of deep semantic structures using content analysis has been used in the study. Adaptive models are identified and analyzed with discourse analysis and invent analysis of folklore (fairy tales, cartoons, movies, etc).