The dynamics of sense components of the mentality of generations

Abstract

The article focuses on the study of life’s senses of three groups of generations. The authors analyze researches of Russian and foreign researchers showing that generation is a group of people with sense-value bases of mentality which have been formed in adolescence and differ from other generations. By means of N.  L.  Ivanova’s technique they have revealed the generational identification of groups: Soviet, transitional, Post-Soviet. By means of V. Iu. Kotliakov’s technique it was established that family, communicative and altruistic senses were leading senses in the group of teenagers. The group of youth demonstrates cognitive, family senses, senses of self-realization, and also existential senses. In the group of pensioners there are existential, family and communicative senses. The authors draw a conclusion about statistically significant distinctions of senses in groups of different generational identities.