Elmir GULIYEV
Elmir Guliev, Ph.D. (Philos.), director of the Department of Geoculture at the Institute of Strategic Studies of the Caucasus (Baku, Azerbaijan).
GLOBALIZATION: SOCIOPHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF ITS IMPACT ON THE YOUTH OF AZERBAIJAN
ABSTRACT
The author analyzes the impact of the sociocultural changes that have taken place in the republic in the last few decades and concludes that the axiological landmarks of the younger generation are extremely important for the country’s successful integration into the globalized world and for balancing the negative effects of this process.
Introduction
The fast pace of technological advances in the information and communication spheres, which play an important role in molding a single political, economic, and sociocultural expanse, has already drawn the youth into the world-changing processes. More than that—by meeting the challenge of technological revolution the youth not only acquires an important role to play in economic life but also changes the descriptions of its civilizational and sociocultural context.
It should be said that the impact of globalization on the youth is not always positive, which in the final analysis, makes the entire society vulnerable in the face of global changes. Indeed, the social meta-technologies the global elite employs to manipulate people’s minds, interests, and…………….