Youth Leisure Solidarities in the Context of Rural Development Policy of Krasnodar Region | South-Russian Journal of Social Sciences
Youth Leisure Solidarities in the Context of Rural Development Policy of Krasnodar Region
Vol. 25 (2024) No. 3, Southern Russia: People, Society, Politics
Vol. 25 (2024) No. 3
Southern Russia: People, Society, Politics

Youth Leisure Solidarities in the Context of Rural Development Policy of Krasnodar Region

Plotichkina N.V.
Kuban State University
ORCID ID 0000-0003-2601-5107
Khmelnitskaya O.A.
Kuban State University
ORCID ID 0009-0009-4879-1722
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https://doi.org/10.31429/26190567-25-3-53-68
https://doi.org/10.31429/26190567-25-3-53-68

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Plotichkina N.V., Khmelnitskaya O.A. (2024) Youth Leisure Solidarities in the Context of Rural Development Policy of Krasnodar Region. South-Russian Journal of Social Sciences, 25 (3), pp. 53-68. DOI: 10.31429/26190567-25-3-53-68 (In Russian)
Submission Date 2024-06-16
Accepted Date 2024-08-15
Published Date 2024-09-30

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Abstract

The author’s attention is focused on identifying resources, forms, practices, places of formation and implementation, measures of state support for leisure solidarities of rural youth in the Krasnodar Territory. The theoretical contours of the study are outlined by the concept of spatial solidarity, realized in everyday interactions of representatives of various local communities (S. Oosterlynck), the interpretation of youth cultural practices through the prism of the solidarity approach (E. L. Omelchenko), focused on intra- and intergroup communications that contribute to the formation of collective identities in youth communities. The analytical optics of modern sociologists focuses not only on the macro level of constructing dominant structural forms of solidarity within the borders of national states, but also on the micro level of achieving social cohesion of relational places (workplaces, leisure, educational, housing spaces). The design of the study is determined by the explication of solidarity as a set of social practices based on interdependence, meetings, common values, and the exchange of various resources, carried out in everyday leisure spaces by young residents of rural communities. The applied research was based on a strategy of mixing qualitative and quantitative methods (questionnaire and expert surveys, interviews). In 2022–2023, a survey of rural youth of Kuban was conducted (N=98, N=103), in 2023, interviews were conducted with experts (N=6) and schoolchildren (N=6) living in non-urbanized areas of the region. The places of construction of youth cohesion are designated as home, social networks, leisure institutions; two forms of youth solidarity are distinguished: direct/ascending and indirect/descending. Barriers to the development of youth leisure solidarities in rural areas are identified: lack of human resources, poor material and technical equipment of cultural and leisure network facilities, lack of innovative creative cultural and leisure sites in rural settlements. The paper describes measures of state support for everyday cultural youth spaces in rural settlements of the Krasnodar Territory.

Keywords

youth, solidarity, spatial solidarity, leisure solidarities, leisure practices, everyday life, state youth policy, rural areas, rural youth communities

Acknowledgements

The research was supported by the grant program of the Russian Science Foundation and the Kuban Science Foundation, project no. 24-18-20079 “Urban and rural communities in the development policy of the Krasnodar region: practices of solidarity and conflict”, https://rscf.ru/project/24-18-20079.

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