Updating of the moral and spiritual values of the youth in the socio-cultural environment of small cities
The article examines the socio-cultural activities as a resource for development of the spiritual and moral values of young people. The authors of the article emphasize that at present the development of spiritual and moral values of young people in the socio-cultural environment of small cities is one of the main tasks of cultural institutions and the main way to overcome one of the key problems of our time. It is emphasized that the modernization of modern so-cio-cultural institutions should be aimed at strengthening the priorities of spiritual and moral education. The modeling of the educational space in order to ensure self-determination of the individual, the creation of conditions for its self-realization, involves the search for new methods and forms of work. The authors conducted a survey, which suggests that the peculiarities of the perception of spiritual and moral values by individual youth in the social and cultural environment of the city of Biryuch are at a partially autonomous level. The social and cultural environment of the city Biryuch is able to provide all the necessary conditions for the development of complete autonomy of each youth, but for this it should use extremely clear and deeply built mechanisms for the formation of spiritual and moral values, the implementation of which in advance will lead to the exclusion of indulgence in the content of their own internal world in the process of increasing personal growth. In the course of the study, the authors developed a draft ofthe experimental courses for youth “Ascension”, on the development of prerequisites for the formation of spiritual and moral values of young people in the social and cultural environment of the small city Biryuch. The fundamental role of cultural institutions of small cities has been defined, which consists in the preservation, formation and presentation of cultural products of spiritual and moral value.