The study of the concept of "coercion" in the worldview of modern youth in the context of terrorist threats

Introduction. The vulnerability of young people to organizations that spread extremist ideology and involve them in terrorist activities poses a challenge for the scientific and pedagogical community to find effective ways to prevent it.

Purpose. To study the worldview of students in the context of a gender analysis of the structure of the semantic content of the concept of "Coercion".

Materials and methods. The study was based on data obtained during a free associative experiment. The main research methods were contextual analysis of lexical material, qualitative analysis of lexemes, semantic analysis of gender databases, and agglomerative-hierarchical cluster analysis of gender databases.

Results. A gender linguistic analysis of the ideas of students of the humanities university about the process of coercion, obtained during a free associative experiment, allowed the authors to establish that according to common semantic features, the reactions received are divided into several groups (processes and actions; feelings and states; other reactions). It is noted that associations with the word "Coercion" include a number of metaphor reactions reflecting the personal meanings of the coercion process for respondents and its functions in relation to a person. At the same time, most of the available metaphor reactions have a negative emotional and evaluative connotation.

Conclusions. A qualitative analysis of the lexical material obtained allows us to determine that the girls in the first place in terms of the percentage of mentions (by a margin) are the lexemes of the "Psychological pressure / imposition" block, the lexemes of the "Use of physical force" block are in the second place, and the lexemes of the "Blackmail / intimidation" block are in the third (by a wide margin). In turn, among young men, the lexemes of the "Use of physical force" block are in the first place (with a slight margin), the lexemes of the "Psychological pressure / imposition" block are in the second place, and the lexemes of the "Management (order, demand)" block are in the third (with a noticeable margin). This suggests a more "active" role for the male sample of respondents during the "implementation" of the coercion process. During the subsequent cluster analysis, the detailed structure of the lexico-semantic fields of the concept was established. Thus, it is established that the structures of the semantic content of the concept of "Coercion" in the linguistic consciousness of young men and women – native speakers of the Russian language do not diametrically coincide.

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