Transformation of the system of value preferences in the conditions of the urban environment

Abstract

The article deals with the topical issue of the influence of the metropolis and its socio-cultural space on the outlook, values and lifestyle of citizens, analyzes the transformation of value preferences of society throughout the history of the urban process. The authors analyze the cultural processes associated with the development of the urban environment, which contributed to the change of value preferences and the cultural appearance of the city, and the reverse influence of new cultural and moral aspirations on the development of the urban environment. Carrying out the idea of the mutual influence of the urban environment and the value system, the authors emphasize that the result of these interrelated processes is a special socio-cultural space with intellectual, linguistic, moral, ethical, communicative and other characteristics. It shows the aggravation of contradictions in the development of cities, the insolubility of some problems in a particular historical period. The authors describe in terms of “cultural proportionality” and “cultural centrality” the realities of the emerging type of society and the urban environment, which are characterized by changes in the degree of mutual influence and the system of moral priorities. In the article, the negative consequences of the development of the metropolis are also determined along with the positive side of the development of the urban environment. The authors focus on socio-cultural transformations in the conditions of a megalopolis that affect the manifestation of the crisis of spiritual culture, and emphasize the need to harmonize traditional values and modern moral innovations in order to prevent the deformation of the spiritual potential of the population of cities and megacities.