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Asmens statusas – tai kompleksinė sąvoka, apimanti kelis dėmenis, dažniausiai jis aiškinamas kaip pareigų ir teisių visuma. Asmens statuso suvokimas ir apibūdinimas nėra statiškas, jis laipsniškai kinta. Pastaraisiais dešimtmečiais statusas siejamas su asmenine gerove bei finansine galia, tuo tarpu moraliniai ir etiniai statuso aspektai tampa vis mažiau reikšmingi. Statuso sampratos kaita yra glaudžiai susijusi su pokyčiais – transformacijos procesais visuomenėje. Moralinis reliatyvizmas, susilpnėję ar nutrūkę bendruomeniniai ir šeimyniniai saitai, asmeninio nesaugumo jausmas žymi suirusią socialinių ir kultūrinių koordinačių sistemą. Šiuolaikinis asmens statuso suvokimas yra veikiamas sisteminės krizės, būdingos tiek Vakarams, tiek buvusio sovietinio lagerio šalims. Current article deals with the social status theories and analyses the shifting concept of personal status. Social conversions directly affect the understanding and definition of personal status. Part of contemporary authors considers this multiple process to be a result of modern crisis both in the Western democracies as well as in the post-Soviet countries. They criticize the devastating effect that secularization has on the conventional way of life and interpersonal relationship without positive alternative. Cultural and social deviations as a forthcoming norm, fragmentation or even collapse of the traditional communities, decline of the family institute, alienation and estrangement of an individual are the social phenomena that were identified and widely analyzed in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Consequently, social status was started to identify with welfare, power and good/profitable position and vice versa – unsatisfactory status or status publicly recognized as “mean” is perceived as a social stigma. The conception that treated personal status as the whole of multisided obligations and responsibility among individuals was rejected as inadmissible. Subversion against the established authority, tradition and status system probably has had the greatest impact on the societies of post-Soviet countries. The former social system(s) and routine of everyday-life were brutally annihilated. Higher status and/or position became the only source of acceptable... [to full text] |
