The socio-cultural dimension of the "culture of cancellation" as a phenomenon of the XXI century

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the emergence and stages of development of the phenomenon of "cancellation culture". The subject is the formation of a concept, and the object is the modification of the "culture of cancellation" in the context of socio-cultural and political events. The novelty of the work lies in the substantiation of the concept of "culture of cancellation" from the perspective of Russian discourse. The authors study the "abolition" of an entire country and its culture on the example of Russia, as a result of which the ways of ousting the country from international discourse and the consequences of this act were revealed. The concept of "cancellation culture" is firmly fixed in the language resource of modern journalists and media analysts, this vocabulary unit activates a significant interest in in-depth research in domestic and foreign discourse. The "culture of abolition" as a phenomenon arose in the public environment of the United States and Europe at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as an instrument of social justice, which is presented as a modern form of ostracism that allows manipulating public opinion. Conceptual analysis, sociolinguistic analysis and intent analysis were used as methods and approaches in the research. The concept of "culture of cancellation" can be considered as a tool for manipulating society, in this case, the process of deformation by the conceptual sphere of the ethnocultural dominant of the subject or society as a whole is analyzed. Similar phenomena are observed in the examples of ethnocultural groups, when certain events occur in the surrounding reality that affect the consciousness of the subject. Negative facts have an impact on a person, erasing established principles and values from consciousness, in the structure of social relations. Scientists have revealed that, under these circumstances, the concept, as an instrument of influence, is transmitted using information received by a certain ethnocultural group. In the study, we also established that a concept is an algorithm for understanding certain cultures, for example, psychological, historical, cultural, logical–semantic, linguistic, etc. In this regard, the "culture of cancellation" as a concept is a process in which certain ideas arise, which are formed against the background of events in the information and social environment and society. The process of "cancellation culture" is rapidly spreading not only within a single country to achieve certain goals, but also throughout the modern world.