THE FAMILY TRADITIONS AND VALUES INFLUENCE ON THE POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR OF UKRAINIANS :PAST AND PRESENT

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the family traditions and values influence on the political behaviour and political culture of Ukrainians in the context of established and historically formed patterns comparison with the current situation that is determined by family institution crisis and numeral political bifurcations.
Methodology of the research predicts the usage of socio-cultural and systemic approaches thanks to which the political culture of Ukrainians becomes as a compound cultural and complex phenomenon, the peculiarity of which depends not on the complex system but the culture of society. One of the important components of this phenomenon is the political behaviour that forms under the influence of family upbringing and traditions, the connection between them helps to understand the historical analogies method.
Novelty. In the work, for the first time, the connection between family traditions and values and the political behaviour of Ukrainians is revealed and researched with the help of cultural analysis.
Results. It is emphasized that cultural research gives the possibility to reveal deeply the status and role of the family traditions and connected with an upbringing in the quality of «over determinant» that conditions behavior and attitude of people to the political system, and how they evaluate the social-political meaning of their positions and actions. It was proved that the Ukrainian family as a mechanism of transit of family traditions and values in a time is a key factor that enables the Ukrainian modern nation as a political subject deriving from here all possible behaviour patterns.
Practical content. Materials of the article can be used for the following educational courses as «History of Ukraine», «History of the Ukrainian Culture» and also during the working with the courses dedicated to the current political culture of Ukraine. Also, the results of the research can be used in frames of further research in the branches of cultural studies, Ukrainian studies, and political science.