Social and cultural identity as the category of pedagogical research

The concept “social and cultural identity”, that is considered as the basic category of studying the problem of development of the “Russians” community, is identified by the means of use of the transdisciplinary, sociocultural and structural-functional approaches. It is substantiated that in the case of adoption of this identity by the younger generation of citizens of the Russian Federation our country will be able to withstand the external pressure and the levelling impact of globalization.