THE VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF RUSSIAN STUDENTS

Abstract

Global information and socio-economic changes in the post-industrial society have led to its evolution, changes in social relations, human activities, also to institutional changes in the education system. Material and socio-cultural environment in which the socialization of the younger generation and individuals happens is changing. Standards, values and socio-cultural patterns are changed in the process of social transformation and in the changes of the value orientations of young people in various fields of modern Russian society. Youth reflects the realities of time and problems of Russian society as a reflection of the entire social space. Social group of students has become so massive that can carry projections, reflect changes of the social life of Russia. In our scientific research we consider the main social factors that influence the formation and establishment of the transformed value orientations of modern Russian students. We put forward the fundamental differences between two alternative paradigms: the technocratic and humanistic, in interpretation of phenomena of dialectically opposed systems of value orientations in regard of a person (group of people) to nature, people, work and person to himself. Currently the social space of value orientations of modern Russian youth is contradictory and vague and fundamentally paradoxical. «Centaur-problem» in the minds and behavior of students is as an eclectic mix of alternative principles of humanistic and technocratic paradigms that are in dialectical unity. We identified the transphenomena expressed in contradictions of value orientations that we call the trans-values. In general the education system contributes to this. The main direction of transformation of students’ value orientations has antisocial orientation. The author suggests application of paradigmatic analysis for the detailed analysis of the ongoing social processes and phenomena, situations and scientific theories.