SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR PATTERNS IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN SOCIETY: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR PATTERNS IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN SOCIETY: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: The new war in Europe fostered the study on the features of social consciousness in Eastern Europe, especially in Ukraine, and all topics related to this process, from cultural values to patterns of social behaviour. Rethinking the state of affairs in Russian and East European Studies prompts us to focus more research attention on Eastern European societies and the dynamics of social behaviour patterns inherent in post-totalitarian societies in transition. This is important, in particular, for the understanding the etiology and causality that determined the victory of Putin’s regime in Russia and the success and failure of the spread of Russian propaganda. This is also related to the ambivalence of the assessment of Ukrainian society, either positive or negative, varying from admiration for freedom and self-organization of Ukrainian society to devaluation or disappointment with its paternalism, passivity, and corruption. The scholars, working within the methodological framework of political philosophy, analyse the confrontation between civil religions (systems of the political sacred), the concept of the solipsistic (reverse) paternalism as one of the main features of post-Soviet society, and the impact of the full-scale war of 2022 - 2024 on the transformation of social values. They emphasise the importance of studying social behaviour patterns in transitional (post-totalitarian) societies marked by a complex collective trauma that affects the very foundations of social coexistence and social solidarity, without which a stable and permanent political bond is impossible.

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