CIVIL CULTURE OF THE PERSONALITY: THESAURUS OF THE NOTION
To find out the result of civic education in the contemporary social and cultural situation it is necessary to reveal the essence of the notion of civil culture as a component of the personality general culture which is the main result of the civic education of younger generation.The purpose of the article is to present a thesaurus of the notion of the personality civil culture which is a result of civil education.Material and methods. Works on the issue of establishing the essence characteristics of the notion of civil culture and correspondingly, notions related to it, are the research materials. Methods of theoretical level such as the comparative analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, the method of generalization, processing and interpretation of dissertation abstracts were used. Findings and their discussion. In the course of the research the notion of the personality civil culture, its functions and structural components were identified. The idea of civic consciousness in works by Soviet, post-Soviet scholars was analyzed; the interpretation of this phenomenon in works by Belarusian scholars was found out. The essence of the notion of civil identification is defined whichpresupposes understanding the belonging to the society of citizens of a state.Conclusion. Identification of the thesaurus of the notion of civil culture can become the foundation in finding out the criteria and parameters of the efficient civic education of the younger generation in the contemporary social and cultural situation.