PROBLEMS OF ETHNO-CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHUVASHIA: BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF SOCIOLOGICAL SURVEYS

Olga V. Karpova, Irina V. Muravyeva, Alevtina N. Pavlova, Evgeny V. Tkachenko

DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2020-4-53-63

Key words

ethno-cultural development, national culture, interethnic relations, national policy, language, culture, nationality, tradition.

Annotation

The article is devoted to the study of ethnocultural features in the Chuvash Republic at the present stage. This problem is topical from the point of view of regional ethnic processes, as well as the strategy of national state policy. The authors analyze the materials of empirical research on the issues of preserving and value of the national culture and interethnic relations, which were conducted in the Chuvash Republic annually in 2017–2019. The number of respondents each year was a little over 600. The results of processing these surveys showed that if the Chuvash language is more important for the Chuvash as a factor of ethnic identity, for the Russians it is a “common land, territory”. The authors believe that for the Chuvash people, their native language is one of the main factors not only in terms of implementing the opportunities to communicate in it and its importance for maintaining folk traditions, but in connection with actualization of the problem of preserving their ethnic group in conditions of a globalized society as well. Some concerns for safekeeping the national culture are related to passivity of the population itself and a low level of awareness-building efforts in this area.

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Information about the authors

Olga V. Karpova – Senior Lecturer, Department of Documentation, Information Resources and Auxiliary Historical Disciplines, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (karp_olya@mail.ru; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0327-765X).

Irina V. Muravyeva – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Documentation, Information Resources and Auxiliary Historical Disciplines, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (irina17-04@bk.ru).

Alevtina N. Pavlova – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Documentation, Information Resources and Auxiliary Historical Disciplines, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (pavlova.alya2013@yandex.ru).

Evgeny V. Tkachenko – Senior Lecturer, Department of Documentation, Information Resources and Auxiliary Historical Disciplines, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (krasnoludek85@mail.ru).

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Karpova O.V., Muravyeva I.V., Pavlova A.N., Tkachenko E.V. PROBLEMS OF ETHNO-CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHUVASHIA: BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF SOCIOLOGICAL SURVEYS. Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, 2020, no. 4, pp. 53–63. DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2020-4-53-63 (in Russian).

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