Traditional Values as an Object of Legal Protection

Abstract

The protection of traditional values is proclaimed as one of the national interests and strategic development of the Russia. In order to ensure legal protection by the state with the entire set of available legal means, it is necessary to clearly define the object of legal protection, which is impossible to do without disclosing the essence of the category of “traditional values”. In this regard, within the framework of this study, an attempt was made to de fine the essence of traditional values as a multifaceted category, which is not static throughout the historical development of the state and society, to clearly understand not only the core of values, but also to identify the forms of existence of such a core, such as normative, symbolic, institutional, behavioral. The author concluded that such characteristics as dynamism, contextuality, and normativity influence the content of the concept of “traditional values”. In order to protect traditional values, it is necessary to create a model of the mechanism for the transmission and dissemination of these values through family upbringing, education, religion, mass media, and public policy, taking into account the historical variability of the transformation of values under the influence of modernization, globalization, including migration, the presence of a conflict between traditional values and innovations due to generational gaps and the integration of new traditions into social groups.