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Школьная книга как инструмент адаптации и интеграции меньшинств: стратегии межпоколенной культурной трансмиссии в букварях русской эмиграции 1920–1930-х гг.
The article discusses the issues of intergenerational cultural transmission on the
example of the primers, published for Russian children in Latvia in 1920–1930-ies. The
conceptual framework of the study made up of classical and contemporary theories of
social cohesion and intergenerational cultural transmission. In the textbooks, published
in the liberal period of the 1920-ies, the child is motivating to the self-development
of values and behavioral practices, with recommended by adult community funds
of knowledge and education. So the community orients child for inclusion in the
network of weak ties, weakening the internal cohesion, but preparing the child for
integration into the dominant culture. The primer, published a decade later, includes
signs of «closure» of the group: «the immutability» of transmitted values, the illusion of
stability, homogenizing the community in both horizontal and vertical measurements
provides intra-group cohesion, protecting the group from the cultural diff usion and
assimilation. Comparison of the identifi ed strategies with the results of the content
analysis of textbooks published in diff erent cultural and political contexts, allows us to
estimate the described model as a universal strategy of adaptation of minorities to the
changing attitudes and politics of the majority.