AXIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PATRIOTISM AS A PHENOMENON OF SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
This article discusses patriotism as a phenomenon of social and individual political consciousness. It pays particular attention to the axiological aspects of this phenomenon: it gives an overview of the patriotism interpretations through the prism of values, as well as author’s definition in the framework of political psychology. The author also proposes and examines the structure of patriotism as a phenomenon of political consciousness of Russians with identifying a number of some valuable components in the integral «image of the country» as an object of the patriotic attitude - «patriotic values».