The historical context for the problems of Modernization of the public consciousness and Cultural memory for Кazakhstani societyа
Аннотация
This article attempts to indicate some problems that, in our opinion, actually exist within the modern postSoviet states and to highlight the factors that hinder and restrain the processes of modernization of the public consciousness. It is clear that each of them requires a more detailed review and reasoning with the help of additional extensive and diversified knowledge of the sources, i.e. in-depth argumentation. However,the limited content of the article prohibits this. In addition, the main focus of the article seeks to highlight the key concerns which are socially significant and at the same time are controversial aspects of the current
developmental practices of the post-Soviet independent states. These problems are many and diverse. In this regard, it is quite possible that the aim to raise not just one, but a number of such questions in this article will be perceived as a kind of chaotic oversaturation of the problem. Nevertheless, this is due to the willingness to “discuss many disturbing issues,” albeit in a staged manner, and sometimes with rather broad brushstrokes.This article considers the historical genealogy, context, and content for the problems of the modernization of
the public consciousness and cultural memory within Kazakhstani society. It emphasizes that reflections and stereotypes of the traditional agrarian mentality expands their niches in the socio-cultural space of Kazakhstan.The success of such an «intervention» is majorly, if not overwhelmingly, conditioned by the social structure’s peculiarities in modern society and, in particular, by the processes of marginalization and impoverishment of wide population segments (which is typical for all post-Soviet states). All of the above is legitimized by the
symbolic resources found in historical memory, the digital environment, media, and areas of discourse which solidify symmetrically the informational matrix structures of the traditional sociocultural context.