Youth worldview self-identification in the context of globalization

Abstract

The following article presents the results of the survey about ideology of modern students in Russia and also their values in terms of dealing with the crisis of personal identity, caused by the change of the "world view" as a result of such processes like social transformation and globalization. Moral values represent an important, if not the major part of the ideology of every personality, because the worldview belongs to a special structure of an ego consciousness, which helps to define the main personal aims and the meaning of life of a human being. The authors of the article developed their own questionnaire; they also used the test M.Rokeach "Ranking of values". Mathematical processing was carried out by the usage of the correlation coefficient r K. Pearson. © IDOSI Publications, 2014.