Culture of modern students: the leading meanings of the political myth
The article is devoted to the problem of forming the meanings of political myth in modern youth culture based on an empirical study of the regional student culture of Krasnoyarsk universities. The starting point of the research is the fact of the modern transition of youth activism from the field of politics to the field of cultural practices. The authors test the hypothesis of the basic role of characteristics of modern youth culture and discrete socio-cultural meanings in the political semantic constructs of students. Thus, the features of the political myth of regional students are considered in the article through the prism of cultural analysis. The article substantiates the cultural «foundation» of the main political images and meanings of students; moreover, the regional student culture reveals fragments of traditional Russian mythologies, semantic borrowings from western cultural and ideological constructs, and innovativ e aspects dictated by the new technological reality