UDC 37.025

DOI: http://doi.org/10.15350/2409-7616.2024.1.53

Kargapolova E.V.¹ (Moscow, Russian Federation) – k474671@list.ru; Glinko O.S.¹ (Moscow, Russian Federation) – oks.glinko@gmail.com; Demidova A.A.¹ (Moscow, Russian Federation) – annauuau@gmail.com; Aksyutina I.V.² (Moscow, Russian Federation) – aksyutina@mail.ru

¹Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

²MIREA — Russian Technological University

Abstract. In recent years, Russia has been strengthening its state ideology, which is focused on preserving spiritual values and traditions. Russians’ ideas about the spiritual ideal are an indicator of social changes in the country. Based on the results of an empirical study, it is shown that every third respondent – a resident of Moscow and the Moscow region – considers parents, family members and close people – teachers, friends, mentors, etc. to be a spiritual ideal. Every fourth understands the spiritual ideal through the prism of religious categories, divine presence, the life of religious ascetics, etc. Thus, more than half of the respondents are inclined to a traditional understanding of the spiritual ideal based on the values of family, parenthood, close social ties, and religiosity. Although there is also a certain degree of nihilism in the responses of the respondents, reflecting the absence of significant figures and characters worthy of identification with the spiritual ideal. Young people are more influenced by Western culture than adults and the elderly, which is reflected in their ideas about the spiritual ideal – there is a tendency to individualism, they more often than representatives of other age socio-demographic groups noted that they do not have a spiritual ideal. In adults, the understanding of the spiritual ideal is most often correlated with the values of family and close environment. Older people are more likely than young people and adults to rely on religious values in understanding the spiritual ideal. The results of the study can be used to specify measures for the formation of spiritual and moral values, taking into account the age characteristics of the respondents.

Keywords: spiritual ideal, intergenerational analysis, residents of Russia, Western culture, religious culture.

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For citation: Kargapolova E.V., Glinko O.S., Demidova A.A., Aksyutina I.V.Spiritual ideal in the views of residents of Russia (using the example of residents of Moscow and the Moscow region). CITISE, 2024, no. 1, pp. 608-619. DOI: http://doi.org/10.15350/2409-7616.2024.1.53