Information Society and Transformation of Value Dimensions of the Person’s Spiritual World
Information society, globalization processes affect significantly the sphere of spiritual life of the society, the character of people’s relations, their value orientations. The purpose of the article is analysis of value measurements of the spiritual sphere of the society. Material and methods. The research material is processes of spirituality transformation, of the socialization of youth in the contemporary conditions. General logical and generally accepted methods of theoretical research are used by the authors. Findings and their discussion. Mankind has become the bearer and the witness of unbelievable technical progress, of the introduction of information technologies into all spheres of human being. At the same time, humanitarian, anthropological crisis is manifesting itself. Basic moral values are reconsidered; processes of mutual alienation of people, their life standardization are deepened. These problems can’t be solved by technological means since information stops being value neutral. Social and cultural factors and ideological landmarks become significant. Transformation of the spiritual bases of the contemporary society inevitably poses the question about the role and the place of the youth in the dynamics of social processes which preconditions the necessity in the improvement of the process of their socialization, correction of the contents and the structure of the social and humanitarian education. Conclusion. Successful development of the society, solution of both strategic and tactical tasks of its modernization presupposes identification of its spiritual, ideological priorities, attention to the quality of human potential.