MOTHER'S ROLE IN SOCIALIZATION AND IDENTITY FORMATION OF CHILDREN IN MONO-ETHNIC AND ETHNIC-MIXED FAMILIES OF KAZAKHSTAN

Abstract Ethnic specificity in the socialization and formation of children’s identity remains, as before, a relevant topic in modern social and humanitarian research. At the same time, scientists analyze both ethnogogenous and ethnoheterogeneous families, noting the important mission of mothers in raising children who will live in the future society. In Kazakhstan, as in other multi-ethnic countries, the approach to the study of family is determined by historical, cultural and social contexts, while family relationships and the distribution of parental functions in raising children are influenced by folk traditions, religious ethics and morality, the legacy of the Soviet way of life and the influence modern trends in civil societies. Based on the materials of in-depth interviews, the role of women of seven ethnic groups of the city of Shymkent and the Turkestan region in the formation of the civil and ethnic identity of children born in the conditions of “decolonization of consciousness” and the renaissance of ethnicity was studied. The sources for the paper included Uzbek women married to men of their own ethnic group and Korean women who established ethnically mixed families in an urban environment. The respondents’ narratives served as empirical research material for a cross-cultural interpretation of the processes of formation of children’s national and ethnic identity and confirmation of the working hypothesis about the priority of maternal channels for the transmission of sociocultural codes.