Vita Kotsur

Vita Kotsur

PhD (History), assistant professor of the Department of History and Culture of Ukraine and special historical disciplines of the State higher educational Establishmen «Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi State Pedagogical University named after Hryhoriy Skovoroda».

ORCID: 0000-0002-6355-6714

Researcher ID: В-8127-2017

DOI: 10.17721/2522-4611.2021.43.2

THEORETICAL-METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE

NATIONAL MENTALITY DEFINITION

(ON THE EXAMPLE OF UKRAINIAN COSSACKS AND THEIR CHARITY)

Abstract. Theoretical and methodological study of the Cossack mentality in Ukrainian scientific works demonstrates the significant interest in the uniqueness of the Ukrainian Cossacks, their way of life, character, worldview and self-identity.

We should notice that the choice of used methodological approaches is because of high level of controversy of a peculiar situation. The sense of the discussions leads primarily to the ratio of Marxist to non-Marxist, “traditional” and “new” methodologies in the post-Soviet historiography. A sign of nowadays is the involvement of Ukrainian researchers in the discussion of theoretical and methodological problems of modern science, especially of mentality.

The author studied the following research methods: typology method – to study the basic concepts of the terminological apparatus, to mark theoretical and methodological research of national mentality, its elements in sociological, historical and psychological literature; descriptive and system and functional ones – to analyse the state of ethnopsychology research; to outline the factors that influenced the formation of the mentality of the Cossacks and how their worldview, moral and ethical principles, persuasions affected the formation of modern worldview and self-identity of Ukrainians. The method of theoretical modelling and the system method were used by the author to extrapolate the Ukrainian mentality in domestic and foreign scientific researchers.

Since the article also provides a historiographical analysis of works on the phenomenon of the Cossacks, the reconstruction of their moral, ethical and ideological image, we should note that we used an anthropological methodology. Its supporters believe that the central place in history should be occupied by human as an effective social being with own ideas, feelings and persuasions. It should be emphasized, that such a kind of anthropocentrism is a special importance for Ukrainian historiography

The article shows features of the phenomenon of the Ukrainian Cossacks through the vision of modern theoretical and methodological criteria of this issue. An important part of clarification on the Cossacks mentality is works devoted to the charity that was common among the Cossacks.

Key words: mentality, historiography, ethnopsychology, Ukrainian Cossacks, charity.

Received by the editorial board: 12.10.2020

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