SOCIO-CULTURAL IDENTITY AS A BASIS FOR SPIRITUAL AND MORAL EDUCATION OF STUDENTS
The spiritual and moral development of the individual is the main subject and target of the educational process in higher education. The main problem is the search for value bases for constructing the trajectory of this process. From the position of the authors, they can become a socio-cultural identity, which allows you to determine your belonging to a cultural community, accept certain norms and rules, share the values of a particular group and regulate your behavior in accordance with this. In this case, the values are not of a momentary nature, but are the product of cultural experience accumulated by generations and transformed during the change of historical stages in accordance with modern realities. The theoretical analysis made it possible to determine the main directions of modern studies of sociocultural identity, and also showed the importance of social comparison and correlation for its formation. In the course of an empirical study, the main spiritual guidelines of student youth were identified, which can become an object of identification. The importance of the family as the most important social group that young people are guided by has been confirmed. Also, among the significant communities, the cultural community and the institution of mentoring stand out.