Patriotism as factor of sociocultural integration
The paper gives reasons for great necessity of patriotism re-thinking in the context of complex globalized world. The authors consider "the big and "small" Homeland as a basis of patriotism; and reveal the interrelation between patriotism and historical memory. It is proved that in the conditions of spiritual crisis, when network culture intensely forms value and world outlook baselines in the digital world, the patriotism can become one of strategic resources of consolidation of the Russian society. Of special interest are results of sociological researches in which dynamics of ethnosocial general condition in the North Caucasus in comparison with the Russian indicators, have allowed definition of young people setting for problems of integration and interethnic communication.