CIVILIZATIONAL TURN IN SOCIOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF CIVILIZATIONAL IDENTITY: EXPERIENCE OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The rejection of a linear and universal understanding of social processes is gaining significant influence in the social sciences. It is in this logic that the civilizational approach manifests itself. In foreign sociology, it is represented by a number of scientists, such as S. N. Eisenstadt and B. Witrock. In Russian sociology, this paradigm is used for research by Boguslavsky R. G., Kozlovsky V. V. (methodological aspects), Zakiryanova I. A., Redkina L. I. (research on ethnocultural identity), Belyaeva L. A. (issues of methodological support for research). Within the framework of the subject field of sociology, the civilizational approach necessarily leads to the problems of civilizational patterns of behavior, civilizational consciousness, civilizational identity and civilizational values. The issues of studying and designing the formation of the civilizational identity of citizens of Russia and the former Soviet republics in a situation of geopolitical turbulence are becoming particularly relevant...