The article analyzes the phenomenon of patriotism, which is presented as a kind of subculture, and not only as an ideological identity or mindset. The main structural components of the patriotic subculture are highlighted. The variety of manifestations of patriotism in a complex society (compositional, moral, ascriptive patriotism) is shown. The tools of formation of patriotic conscious-ness and behavior (patriotic education, education, information, correction) are considered. The authors note that the social community with which ideology is identified is the supra-party political front, situ-ationally uniting the activists of political movements and parties focused on the full restoration and protection of national sovereignty in all its main aspects – political, economic, cultural, territorial. Ap-plied to such an entity as the National Front, this, of course, is primarily civic patriotism. The article also points to a sufficiently diverse picture of ideas, definitions, concepts of patriotism, which allows us to talk about patriotic discourse, which is massively spreading primarily in the era of modernization, within which modern socio-political and economic dynamics are being formed, leading to mass and world wars and macro-social competition, acutely the required mobilization vector of action, organizing huge masses of people and, at the same time, giving rise to contrasting and even contradictory disposi-tional configurations, including "patriotism" in consciousness and in mass behavior, which requires a rather subtle methodological and scientific-disciplinary nuance.

The article analyzes the phenomenon of patriotism, which is presented as a kind of subculture, and not only as an ideological identity or mindset. The main structural components of the patriotic subculture are highlighted. The variety of manifestations of patriotism in a complex society (compositional, moral, ascriptive patriotism) is shown. The tools of formation of patriotic conscious-ness and behavior (patriotic education, education, information, correction) are considered. The authors note that the social community with which ideology is identified is the supra-party political front, situ-ationally uniting the activists of political movements and parties focused on the full restoration and protection of national sovereignty in all its main aspects – political, economic, cultural, territorial. Ap-plied to such an entity as the National Front, this, of course, is primarily civic patriotism. The article also points to a sufficiently diverse picture of ideas, definitions, concepts of patriotism, which allows us to talk about patriotic discourse, which is massively spreading primarily in the era of modernization, within which modern socio-political and economic dynamics are being formed, leading to mass and world wars and macro-social competition, acutely the required mobilization vector of action, organizing huge masses of people and, at the same time, giving rise to contrasting and even contradictory disposi-tional configurations, including "patriotism" in consciousness and in mass behavior, which requires a rather subtle methodological and scientific-disciplinary nuance.