Политический миф как разновидность политической символизации

Общественные науки и современность. 2015. Т. 5. С. 102–117.

Musikhin G. I.

This article analyses the features of political mythology as a manifestation of the political symbolization’s process. Political symbolization is defined as the phenomenon of unconventional media reaction to the political information presented in a specific form of sign systems. The research reveals the interrelation of political myths with ideology and utopia. The analysis of political myths structure shows the main difficulty that is the ambivalent ideological myth interpretation. The article captures the main functions of political myths. The author refers to technologization and fragmentation of political myths. As a result, the myths receive widespread use, but lose their symbolic impact force. This can be found in modern myths of "conspiracy theory". The conclusion is that the fragments of myths can mimic modern forms of thinking.

Keywords: глобализация, утопия, идеология, globalization, ideology, utopia, символизация, политический миф, политический символ, political symbolism, теория заговора, symbolization, political myths, conspiracy theory