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V.I. ABAEV NORTH-OSSETIAN INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITARIAN AND SOCIAL STUDIES

OF VLADIKAVKAZ SCIENCE CENTRE OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

AND THE GOVERNMENT OF NORTH OSSETIA-ALANIA

ИЗВЕСТИЯ СОИГСИ

KHADIKOVA A.KH. ON ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE MORAL CONCEPT OF “HONOR” (ON THE OSSETIAN MATERIALS) Print

The article substantiates the necessity of historical and anthropological (ethnological) study of the moral concept of “honor” as an essential part of ethnic culture and social experience of each ethnic group. More promising for this purpose is synthesizing two research approaches: the axiological and institutional. Within the first one “honor” is viewed as a category of ethnographic analysis and an ethnic paradigm of thinking, which is appropriately learnt through a system of images, moral preferences and evaluative constructs of thinking, moral motivation, spiritual accumulations of the people, etc. In the second case the ethno-cultural aspects of the phenomenon of “honor” are analyzed in the context of historically formed legal, ethical and aesthetic attitudes, personal images, “primordial” types of social reactions, etc. In accordance with the principles of scientific objectivity the ethnographic nature of the phenomenon of “honor” is considered in the context of social and spiritual experience of the divided Ossetian people. Application of the historical-retrospective method enables to consider the highly abstract concept of “honor” as a specific factor of ethnic culture of Ossetians, hierarchy of values and kind of the people’s mental structure. On the basis of the ethnographic material a hierarchy of specific aspects of “fair name” is analyzed. Moral and psychological attitudes which historically developed  and merged in the ethnic (Ossetian) concept of “honor” are considered in two aspects: as a part of humanitarian culture (moral motivation of behavior) and as a social normative culture (moral regulations). The special attention is given to deep connection of ethnic notions of honor with the ethnic identity, ethnic consciousness as well as to the prospects of functioning of ethnicity of the divided Ossetian nation.

Keywords: ethnicity, moral concept, ethnocultural heritage, ethnic consciousness, socio-cultural experience and spiritual accumulations of the people, ethnic mentality, stereotypes and attitudes.


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