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Article name Marginalization of Tradition in Contemporary Russia: The Self and the Other Represented in Web Communities of Criminal Subcultures
Authors Dorogavtseva I.S. Candidate of Culturology, Associate Professor, irinadorogawzewa@mail.ru
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Section CULTURE AND SOCIETY
UDK 304.2 + 316.624.2 + 316.752.4.
DOI 10.21209/1996-7853-2018-13-2-35-44
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Annotation The article is an attempt to reveal some specific traits of the Self- and the Other perception in the consciousness of a marginal subject. The target of the research is the contemporary criminal youth subculture, with the Self and the Other representation in its Internet communities as the subject of the analysis. The paper is centered on the positive image of criminal culture in modern Russian society. The Other is regarded as an object, and it causes the inability to dialogue, the lack of ironic thinking and consumption orientation. The dominating role of enemy images, the attitude of isolation, a low level of trust and a rigid distinction between the own and the strange are regarded as the result of the rejection of modernity’s values, in this case as an attempt of a post-totalitarian society to resist its transformation. The author concludes that criminalized groups are marginal not only to modernity but also to tradition. Criminal consciousness combines marginal and archaic traits in such a way that negative elements of the latter intensify and the constructive ones decrease.
Key words The Other, marginalization, archaism, youth subculture, criminal culture, post-totalitarian society
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