Youth in Contemporary Russian Province: Socio-Cultural Reflection

The paper covers original approaches to methodological objectification of social and cultural research carried out in the Russian countryside, the main results of content analysis and quantitative analysis for the series of projects. The projects were aimed at researching into the intellectual and mental aspects of identity of an average young resident of modern Russian countryside, and mainly their priorities and perspectives. The paper presents theoretical and methodological objectifications for surveys that demonstrate innovative achievements in the development of culturologically determined research instruments that enable research of general and specific problems of average young occupant of a representative locus of Russian countryside without resorting to additional IT resources. The paper also covers representative innovative results of the surveys, which are an intellectual product describing personal and collective intentions of the youth in modern Russia, viewed in specific and universal modality. These results helped discover a number of tendencies that describe the young people who participated in the survey in terms of communication, social culture, social psychology and spirituality and morality.