"Success" as a socio-cultural category: the Russian and Chinese value systems

The relevance of the article is due to the fact that it discusses the topic of personal success, which has recently become particularly significant. The category of "success" is discussed in the light of the socio-cultural paradigm.

The purpose of the study is to determine the role of the category "success" in the value system of modern Russian and Chinese students studying at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Objectives. The article sets and solves the following tasks: to identify the main components of the category "success" in Russian and Chinese cultures through the prism of the perception of young people aged 18-27; to analyze the data obtained during a social survey using an electronic questionnaire in the period from May 1 to May 31, 2024; to describe the differences in attitudes towards the category "success" in Russian and Chinese societies.

Methodology. The research methods were comparative and comparative methods, as well as the method of analyzing the data obtained.

Results. In the course of the study, the main components of the category "success" in Russian and Chinese cultures were identified through the prism of the perception of young people aged 18-27, and the data obtained during a social survey using electronic questionnaires from May 1 to 31, 2024 were analyzed, and differences in attitudes towards the category "success" in modern Russian and Chinese were established. societies.

Conclusions. The hypothesis about the dependence of the perception of the category "success" in national societies on cultural and national characteristics has been confirmed. In modern Russian and Chinese societies, the category of "success" is becoming increasingly important and is perceived as one of the basic values with symbolic power. Chinese students, in evaluating themselves and others, are guided not so much by the opinions of others as by their own feelings. In this regard, they turned out to be more independent and independent of public opinion than Russian students.

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