UDC 355.02 – 055.2 (457)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30839/2072-7941.2018.149654

GENDER APPROACH AND DEMOCRATIC VALUES IN THE
CONTEXT OF THE MODERN GENERATION OF MILITARY STAFF’S
MENTALITY SHAPING

© KRYMETS, L. V.
National Defense University of Ukraine named after Ivan Chernyakhovskyi (Kyiv,
Ukraine)
E-mail: Liudmylakrymets@gmail.com, ORCID 0000-0001-7451-5208

Actuality. Modern Ukrainian society puts forward a set of professional and moral-ethical
requirements for both individual servicemen and the system of military training in general. In this
regard, there is a need for the preparation of qualitatively new management personnel for the military
administration, headquarters, and structures for the moral and psychological support of all levels. That
must be done in order to implement a significant range of socio-political and military reforms in order
to democratize and optimize the Ukrainian army, taking into account both the best national, and the
leading world experience.
The purpose of article is emphasizing of gender approach and definition the completely term of
modern military personnel mentality and demonstration of some peculiarities of mentality shaping
process in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The methodological base of research are general scientific
principles of integrity, objectivity and historicity, which allowed to reveal the specifics of the
formation of the mental culture of servicemen in the process of practical training. Scientific novelty.
According the author’s conception mentality of a serviceman is a dynamically developing system in
which the unification of not only personal experience but also professional development takes place.
The mentality of the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other components of the defense
forces is an integrative professionally determined sociocultural property that determines the specifics
of their worldview, the way of thinking, the peculiarities of the formation of collective and individual
consciousness and professional behavior.Gender mentality is a socio-ethical component of the
mentality of a serviceman that reveals the specifics of gender stereotypes and the way of thinking that
in the conditions of the reformation and development of the Armed Forces of Ukraine should be based
on democratic values. Conclusion. This article will help you understand what democratic values form
the ethical basis for the formation of a modern Ukrainian army that will meet the requirements of the
time and will reveal the specificity of the gender mentality of the servicemen.
Key words: mentality of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, gender mentality,
axiological aspects of the formation of mentality, ethical code, European values, social philosophy,
military management.