About Mass Political Consciousness Kazakhstani in the Conditions of Transition From Post-Soviet to «New Kazakhstan»

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the mass political consciousness in Kazakhstani society. The paper provides a theoretical substantiation of the phenomena of “political consciousness” and “mass political consciousness”, as well as analyzes the materials of sociological surveys. As a result, some characteristic features of the mass political consciousness were revealed. The article notes that in the mass political consciousness of Kazakhstanis, opposite attitudes and guidelines are combined: on the one hand, support for democracy and human rights, and on the other, political passivity and distrust of government institutions, inability to civil self-organization. The real political behavior of citizens is characterized by a high emotional involvement and a low level of real activity. A feature of the mass political consciousness of Kazakhstanis is the alienation of society from politics and power. In this process, the issues of both the transformation of the mass political consciousness of the population itself and the renewal of the strategy of the authorities for managing public consciousness on the basis of certain ideological narratives are extremely relevant. This issue is of applied importance for the conceptualization of the “New Kazakhstan».