Traditional and Innovative Paradigms in the Formation Civic Identity and Patriotism

The relevance of the article is due to the modern socio-political situation, characterized by a military-political, cultural, economic and mental clash between Russia and the global West, as well as the growing need of the formation of civil identity and patriotism inside the society in these conditions The purpose of the article is to identify the significance and meaning of sociocultural paradigms in the functioning and development of social processes. In connection with this goal, we examine the content of traditional and innovative paradigms, such as patriarchal, naturalistic, teleological, religious, cultural-centric, economic-centric, etc. All these paradigms are analyzed in connection with the tasks facing Russian civilization of preserving traditional ideas about society, family and man in the new conditions of information confrontation with the West and the actualization of identity problems in general. Based on the methodology of the representative of the philosophy of science T. Kuhn, the role of sociocultural paradigms is shown as factors contributing to the search and solution of rising social problems. Analyzing the meaning of patriotic feelings and their role in preserving the country’s sovereignty, the author turns to the ideas of N.S. Trubetskoy and L.N. Tolstoy. Unlike L.N. Tolstoy, who understood patriotism as an archaic phenomenon in the new Christian era, N.S. Trubetskoy considered patriotic feelings as a condition for preserving national and cultural identity. The article shows the historical significance of pseudomorphosis for the fate of Russia, when the political elite uses alien cultural models developed in a different environment. In order to use political and economic models productively, they must be critically examined and adapted to the existing Russian cultural tradition. Traditional and innovative paradigms as models for posing and solving urgent problems of social and human development are considered in the context of achieving the security and sovereignty of Russia as a state-civilization.