Russians feel more confident about how their lives will go in the future than about how their country will develop, with young people showing the biggest difference due to uncertainty about the country, according to a survey of 1,350 of them conducted by researchers at the university. Moscow Institute of Sociology and Tyumen State University.
Maria Podlesnaya and Ilona Elena came to these conclusions on the basis of a study of how different generations view heroism. Their findings, published in the Russian Journal of Social Sciences and Social Practice, in its current edition, are discussed before Nakanone News Agency journalist Yevgeny Chernyshov at nakanune.ru/articles/121711/.
The two sociologists divided their sample into four age groups: “Soviet” (born before 1968), the “reform” generation (born between 1969 and 1981), Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996), and Generation Z (born between 1997 and 1996) 2012 ).
The survey found that 70% of the former and only 48% of the latter told investigators that they had a clear vision for Russia's future. But different age groups have roughly similar attitudes regarding their confidence in their personal future, Podlesnaya and Elena report.
Perhaps the current turmoil the world is witnessing explains why Russians distinguish between their ideas about their country's future and their personal future. But this gap is “very indicative,” Podlesnaya and Elena say, of the way Russians face the future, paying less attention to the country’s future and more to their own future.
