functioning. One can fully agree that it is precisely the statehood formation specificity,
the role and place of Orthodoxy created this East Slavic cultural archetype peculiarity.
Collectivism, the communal way of life formed a special system of views, which,
together with Orthodoxy, or perhaps due to it, made the phenomenon of unity (the
Slavic term, referring to the words "collection", "gathering" is not alien to the
theological idea) as an Orthodox way of life of a person [10].
According to A. Zapesotsky, Orthodoxy played a significant role in the formation
of the national value-normative model. Providing an axiological and anthropological
culture specificity, it determined the characteristics and purpose of a human spiritual
development.
In the Slavic Orthodox world, social values have always been above the individual
ones. “The social orientation of the Russian person’s consciousness comes from the
communal structure of life and the artel forms of production organization. If Western
society was built on the basis of the guarantor of the rights and freedoms of an
individual, its autonomy from the state, then Russian public life was based on
conciliarity and dissolving the I-concept in the communal we-concept [6, p. 94].
According to O. Bazaluk, the most stable value dominants that make up the value
and normative national culture basis are:
1. Low importance of material well-being factors and orientation to an ideal,
spiritual sphere;
2. Living without roots in the present and facing the past or the future;
3. The dominance of social orientation over individual and personal needs [1, p.
344].
From community to collectivism, from collectivism to sociocentrism - such is the
dynamics of the process. This characteristic cannot be absolutized. Sociocentrism does
not exclude an active personal, aggressively individual, consistently proprietary in the
East Slavic individual's ideology. But even in such conditions, collectivism forms a
certain special motivation of behavior and the value basis of social priorities. In this
particular behavior motivation, personal value is limited by the collective one when it
acts as a hyper-goal. The social recognition of individual value is possible and
necessary, but within the framework of the individual value not conflicting with the
collective one.
The East Slavic society, all its structural elements, all its activities are literally
permeated by sociocentricism, including the education system. Even pedagogical
technologies are essentially focused on the collective conscious and unconscious. “The
social and centric model does not reject the principle of individualization, but it is
considered more as an individual approach principle and is used when the collective
way of influencing on the individual in order to bring it to the nominal standard does
not work or turns out to be unproductive due to some personal features. In these cases,
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