NATIONAL-STATE IDENTITY: METHODOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL ASPECTS

Abstract

Aim. To introduce the scientific community to the research results presented at the international conference “National Identity and Patriotism in States in International Crises” (October 28, 2022) and the round table with international participation “National Identity, patriotism and Historical Memory” (December 23, 2022), organized by the Department of Political Sciences of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Political Science of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov with the support of the electronic online publication “Bulletin of Moscow Region State University”. Methodology. The article presents data on the problems of uniting (“consolidating”) national identity and patriotism, including methodological problems of “political cyclism”,“return” cycles, agent modeling, ideological and semantic “counter-discourse”. The authors are researchers of ISISS RAS, Institute of Sociology of the RAS, Lomonosov Moscow State University, L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (Republic of Kazakhstan). Results. Based on the materials of theoretical and methodological, historical and applied research, the article highlights the spectrum of national identity and patriotism formation problems, the ethics of service history, the informational influence of foreign and inner destructive forces. The paper also considers the problems of cyclical changes in national identity, information and communication and cognitive aspects of identity, discourses and “counter-discourses” on social values, tasks of countering manipulative technologies with regard to the complexity of the ethno-national composition of society, the specifics of identification processes and public consciousness in Russia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Brazil.Research implications. The published materials have theoretical, methodological and applied significance for the research of the national-state identity and the introduction of scientific results into the mechanisms of ideological and political confrontation of constructive and deconstructive forces, which is important in the education of patriotism, maintaining optimism and faith in the possibility of positive development in a tough struggle for identity. The conclusions and recommendations of the researchers can contribute to solving urgent political and educational tasks, improving the effectiveness of mechanisms that positively affect society consolidation, maintaining the ethics of “service”.

Keywords

• national-state identity
• patriotism
• ethics of “service”
• comparative analysis
• cycle of “return”
• ideological and semantic “counter-discourse”