Homelander generation: formative context representation

Abstract

The article covers the qualitative analyses results of students essays that represent the events of the formative context, which determined values and modal personality of this generation. The goal of this article is to reveal the main categories that the homelander generation uses to represent the generation formative context. The Samara University students essays, written since 2017 to 2022, have been used as empirical material for this research. A. Strauss triple qualitative coding has been used as a method. The study has found, that the students represent generation formative context by three categories: as a set of conditions for their further self-development, as events that reflect the formative period ambivalent character, and as the border period across two eras.