Students' survey on urban identity

The Committee for the Protection of Monuments in St. Petersburg (Russia) conducts educational work for schoolchildren and students.
Since 2016, students of the Department of Social Technologies of the RANEPA have been participating in an educational and research project on urban identity also.
In 2018, we decided to conduct a monitoring of urban identity and self-identification by students collaborated with committee projects. Poll
was placed in a public Internet environment, Google Surveys, everyone could fill it,
however, the link was recommended to be filled by schoolchildren and student partners
KGIOP projects.
The survey also had a reinforcing educational function -
do they know that the object “The historical center of St. Petersburg and a related
group of monuments ”is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List?
There were 174 answers by students who live in St. Petersburg. Many of them came from other cities, but almost all have the identity of a Petersburger.
There are several open questions of the online questionnaire: What makes Petersburg different
from other cities of the world? Who is a Petersburger of the XXI century and what are his qualities?
What is the “spirit of Petersburg”? - they are projections in terms of psychology, therefore, using semiotic methods, one can reconstruct practices, meanings and values.
Questions appeal to our claim that identity is connected with the basic needs: belonging to a place that is maintained and taken care of, managed, shared with other people, provides an opportunity for creative expression. These needs go back to Jung’s analytical psychology, but are also well known through Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in humanistic social psychology.
The question of the spirit of the city allows us to understand the significant practices of the place that create the special atmosphere of the city 'genius loci', felt by the younger generation.
The question on ideal Petersburger refers to projective identification and self-description. We are wondering if there are significant differences in the perception of self-identity and city identity of young city residents
from previous generations, stereotypes and traditional views.

俄罗斯圣彼得堡古迹保护委员会（Committee for the Protection of Monuments in St. Petersburg）面向中小学生与高校学生开展宣教工作。自2016年起，俄罗斯总统国民经济与公共管理学院（RANEPA）社会技术系的学生亦参与到城市认同相关的教育研究项目中。2018年，本团队决定依托委员会相关项目，针对学生群体开展城市认同与自我认同监测工作。本次调研通过谷歌问卷（Google Surveys）在公共互联网平台发布，所有网民均可参与，但调研链接主要面向参与KGIOP项目的中小学生与学生合作伙伴进行推广。本次调研同时兼具宣教强化功能：设置相关问题以了解受访者是否知晓“圣彼得堡历史中心及其相关古迹群”已被列入联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）世界遗产名录。本次调研共回收174份圣彼得堡本地学生的有效问卷，尽管其中多数受访者并非土生土长的圣彼得堡市民，但几乎所有人均自视为彼得堡人。本次线上问卷设置了三道开放式问题：“圣彼得堡与全球其他城市的区别何在？”“21世纪的彼得堡市民应具备怎样的特质？”以及“何为‘彼得堡精神’？”。这些问题均属于心理学层面的投射测试，因此可通过符号学方法重构相关实践、意义与价值体系。本次调研的问题均基于核心假设：城市认同与人类基本需求息息相关——包括对所维护、照料、管理并与他人共享的场所的归属感，以及获得创造性表达的机会。此类需求的理论溯源可至荣格的分析心理学，同时也在马斯洛的人本主义社会心理学需求层次理论中得到广泛阐释。针对“城市精神”的问题，可帮助我们理解塑造城市独特氛围的核心实践，即年轻一代所感知到的“场所精神（genius loci）”。关于“理想彼得堡市民”的问题则属于投射性认同与自我描述范畴。我们旨在探究，年轻城市居民对自我认同与城市认同的认知，与前代人、既有刻板印象及传统观点之间是否存在显著差异。