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Rezunkov A.G. [The role of traditional holidays in the life of students of Saint Petersburg Technical Colleges] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2023, Vol. 14, No. 2. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/20SCSK223.pdf (in Russian).

The role of traditional holidays in the life of students of Saint Petersburg Technical Colleges

Rezunkov Andrey Gennadievich
Michurinsk State Agrarian University
Saint Petersburg Radio Engineering College, Saint Petersburg, Russia
E-mail: ararog@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3814-7140
RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=519102

Abstract. What is a holiday, how it differs from everyday life, how it is perceived by modern youth, whether it is needed today or has already outlived its time — such questions are raised by the author in this article. The holiday has recently been increasingly turning into a feast or a theatrical action, in which there are actors and a very passive audience majority. The culture of mass celebrations, which take place in the form of folk festivals, where almost everyone is not a spectator, but a participant, is a thing of the past.

The author has been studying, organizing and conducting calendar holidays for about 30 years, exploring the emotional and energy component of this phenomenon, how they affect people. This work is a continuation and deepening of the research conducted two years earlier. This anonymous survey was attended by 188 students of St. Petersburg Technical Colleges aged 16–18 years, mostly young men, ethnically Russian. Among the days named as holidays, they first of all singled out those that are celebrated at the national level and designated as non-working days. Holidays close to their age were also marked: Knowledge Day and Teacher’s Day, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, Halloween and Valentine’s Day, Children’s Day. But when asked which traditional holidays you took part in and which holidays you would like to take part in, they indicated holidays filled with action.

It might seem that the interest of modern youth in traditional, folk, calendar holidays is fading — 30 % of respondents do not want to take part in the holidays. But this is not the case. Many simply do not know them, and someone knows them in a distorted form. It remains only to understand how to attract children to the traditional culture without scaring off and discouraging the hunt. How to show the beauty and fascination of national holidays through cinema, television, literature, social networks?

Keywords: social culture; holiday; traditional holiday; calendar holiday; ethno-cultural rituals; calendar; celebrate; modern youth; psycho-emotional impact

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