This article presents studies carried out within the framework of the project "Life models of youth: intergenerational and intragenerational research", supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. The purpose of the studies were to identify the role of intergenerational vertical transmission in following spheres: value orientations, moral feelings shame as an experience of discrepancy between action and accepted norms; guilt as a deep remorse, determined by the personality culture , and behavioural patterns of intimate relationships.
The mixed method study design was based on a comparison of three different generations within the same family using 90 families; Russians and Dagestanis living in St. The findings revealed a decrease in importance of values of security, tradition, conformity, with simultaneous growth values of independence, novelty and achievements from generation to generation. The revealed values dynamics corresponds to the general tendencies described in the literature.
However, in another ethnic environment, the values of different generations are close, thus the family culture dominates the culture of the community. Moral experience and intimate relations model show the generations within one family as representatives of different cultures.
Keywords: Intergenerational transmission values moral experiences intimacy. The sphere of intergenerational relations has always been the focus of attention. Individual consciousness in such a reality is characterized by a state of multiple identity, determined by the fluid, changing sociocultural contexts of human life Guseltseva, The transitivity of the modern world, in another way, accentuates the problem of the relationship between generations.
The new social situation of youth development is fundamentally different from the conditions in which their parents and grandparents grew up. These changes concern the establishment of social ties, information immersion and experience that strengthens cultural estrangement between generations.
