Keyword: «ethnic identification of a person»

The relevance of the study is associated with revealing the potential of the literary autobiography of P. Sorokin as one of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century, which arouses methodological and philological interest in the personality embodied in an artistic image and who has gone through three ethnic identifications: Komi - Russian - American, and now – a man beyond the nations. The purpose of our article is to present methodological approaches to the analysis of the autobiographical work of P. Sorokin, to make a philological analysis of the text interpreting the autobiography of P. Sorokin on the basis of literary and linguistic methods of understanding the text, to show regional practices of studying the work in literature lessons and as a part of extracurricular activities. The article demonstrates the methodological potential of using philological analysis of text by a teacher to achieve better educational results for students associated with the practice of comprehensive analysis of a literary text in historical, cultural, and ethnic contexts. The subject of regional study of the work at school is the narrative diary of a thirty-five-year-old man, reflected in the first three parts of the autobiographical novel. They describe the reflection and reproduction of important personally significant events for the male identity of P. Sorokin as a representative of the Komi people. Socially significant stages of the author’s life are highlighted in the center of the plot of the autobiographical novel, revealing the self-identification of a man as the process of his sociological worldview formation, the life position of an altruist in the disharmonious outside world of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. An educational strategy for studying P. Sorokin's novel is outlined, at the center of which is life experience, constructed in an autobiographical work as a process of interaction between the hero and the outside world, including all social, cultural, ethnographic, economic, and political events. The article states the theoretical and practical significance of the regional practice of studying the work of P. Sorokin in lessons and as a part of extracurricular activities, and presents recommendations for the use of “village biography” as a life text that reveals behavioral stereotypes of masculinity among the Komi population of the second half of the 19th century. P. Sorokin’s autobiographical novel “A Long Journey” has regional potential for studying the work in literature classes and as a part of extracurricular activities, embodying the practice of creating an active cognitive environment for readers.