Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-7671 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1948 (Online)


массовая культура

The state and ethnic identity: Confrontation or alliance?

Introduction. The article is devoted to the analysis of the relationship between the state and ethnic group, state and ethnic identity. It reveals the mechanisms of state formation based on the development of cultural baggage created within the framework of the ethnic communicative space. Theoretical analysis. One of the distinctive features of modern states is the complex nature of the identities that comprise their citizens. The article shows in what ways and due to what the president of the state asserts the beginning of the state.

КУЛЬТУРНОЕ НАСЛЕДИЕ В (ПОСТ)СОВРЕМЕННОМ СИТИСКЕЙПЕ: ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ ИЛИ ДЕСТРУКЦИЯ?

В  статье  рассматриваются  особенности  современного  го-
родского  социокультурного  пространства.  Ставится  вопрос  о 
трансформации  ценностей  культурного  наследия  в  условиях 
преобладания  массовой  культуры  и  в  культурных  практиках 
игрофикации. На примерах из области городской скульптуры, 
трансляций оперных спектаклей на городских площадях, стра-
тегий  музеев  в  области  сувенирной  продукции  показано,  что 
в процессе получения коммерческой прибыли первоначальные 

Philosophical Perception of Ideology in Contemporary Society

This article’s objective is to comprehend which place ideology takes in the liberal capitalistic society. Ideology plays the role of the social organization and social self-organization mechanism which has been historically established. The author descripts its essence, substance and social functions along with cognizing the notion of an individual freedom. Liberal capitalistic ideology is characterized with a tendency to freedom and free enterprise according to mass media.

Freedom within the Context of the Russian Consumer Society

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of freedom in the conditions of modern Russian consumer society. The relevance of this problem is expressed in replacing the understanding of the meaning of freedom as the freedom “for” with such an understanding, which includes the interpretation associated with such a phenomenon as consumerism, that does not allow to perceive it as a true universal freedom. Various philosophical concepts of modernity are aimed at criticism of consumption as an attribute of post-capitalist society.