National Self-consciousness in the Context of Multicultural Practices in Ukraine

UDC 008:351.858

Tetiana Yereskova
Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, Kyiv.
ORCID 0000-0001-7011-9590

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-14-2018-2.60-67

Keywords: multiculturalism, social reality, multicultural practices, national self-consciousness.

Abstract. In this article the main tendencies of change of national self-consciousness due to global multiculturalism are investigated. There are three possible variations of manifestations of national consciousness by the members of the Ukrainian society in the context of multicultural practices. Firstly, it is the return to the restriction of civil rights and freedoms of the person, the desire for state and socio-cultural self-sufficiency. Secondly, it is the tendency towards a growing nationalist orientation. Thirdly, it is the purposeful orientation towards democratic values, accompanied by not only declarative but also real steps towards the ever-increasing democratization of public life, legal, civil society, integration with other social systems, peoples and states.
Finally, the author shows that the national self-consciousness can serve as a kind of “challenge” for the formation and development of multicultural practices of the members of contemporary Ukrainian society, as it can be manifested either by a committed attitude to a particular ethnic group; or because of the characteristics of ethnocentrism; or through the properties of ethno-radicalism; and finally, due to the properties and characteristics of tolerance. However, national self-consciousness is intended to develop national and above all the essential, rational in it and overcome the nature of purely ethno-national. It is these “levers” of the management of ethno-national relations in the country, which ensure the harmonious integration of the individual, the community, the country into the intercultural space.

Author Biography.

Tetiana Yereskova, Candidate of Social Sciences, Associate Professor, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, Kyiv.
ta.ereskova@gmail.com

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Published: November 22, 2018.

Vol 14 No 2 (2018).

Section: THEORY AND HISTORY OF CULTURE.