ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE PAST (Stavlennia do minuloho)

• Authors: Soroka Yuliia
• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

EN

Ukraine is experiencing the transformation of symbolic space including symbols of the past. Such developments are brought up to date by different social agents' needs of self-identification. The past, history and memory are becoming an issue of social sciences and humanities. The article is devoted to justifying the notion 'attitude towards the past' defined as a perception of historian events and persons through adequate, available and legitimate symbols of the past in the course of spontaneous propositions, emotional evaluation, behavioral reactions, and production of cultural texts and opinions. This definition is based on critical analysis of M.Halbwax', P.Nora's, P.Ricoeur's, and Th.Adorno's conceptions about memory and the past. The meanings of the symbol of the past are multiple; individuals use and support these meanings according to their socio-cultural experiences, social positions, access to channels of meanings dissemination. The data of mass survey provide evidence of Ukrainian students' attitudes to the past. They demonstrate positive evaluation of distant historical persons, as well as differentiation of evaluation of historical persons with respect to tradition/innovation contrasting and regional discrepancy concerning meaningfulness of the past as a subject matter. The forming of common 'Pantheon' of Ukrainian heroes is also observed against this background.

Keywords

EN

'ATTITUDE TOWARD THE PAST'; 'PANTHEON' OF UKRAINIAN HEROES; SYMBOLIC SPACE TRANSFORMATION (UKRAINE)

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; http://www.i-soc.kiev.ua
• Journal: Sotsiolohiia: teoriia, metody, marketyng (Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing)
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 47-66
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Soroka Yuliia

• Yuliia Soroka, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (for more information address the journal editorial office)

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09UAAAAA06943