Characteristics of youth as a social group. Characteristics of youth as a social group Active search for their place in life
Aggressive initiative
It is based on the most primitive ideas about the hierarchy of values, based on the cult of persons. Primitivism, visibility of self-affirmation. Popular among teenagers and young people with a minimum level of intellectual and cultural development.
Shocking (French epater - to amaze, surprise) amateur performance
It is based on a challenge to norms, canons, rules, opinions both in everyday, material forms of life - clothing, hairstyle, and in spiritual ones - art, science. “Challenging” aggression on yourself from others in order to be “noticed” (punk style, etc.)
Alternative amateur performance
Based on the development of alternative, systemically contradictory models of behavior that become an end in themselves (hippies, Hare Krishnas, etc.)
Social activities
Aimed at solving specific social problems (environmental movements, movements for the revival and preservation of cultural and historical heritage, etc.)
Aimed at change political system and political situation in accordance with the ideas of a particular group
The acceleration of the pace of development of society determines the increasing role of youth in public life. By getting involved in social relations, young people modify them and, under the influence of transformed conditions, improve themselves.
Ethnic communities
In ancient times, people lived a closed life - each group (clan, tribe) had its own habitat, its own occupations, special insignia, its own language, its own beliefs. All others were considered enemies, and therefore constant clashes occurred. Gradually the situation changed - tribal unions and other associations appeared different groups. At the same time, the special features of the previous groups remained. This is how the interaction of ethnic groups appeared.
Ethnic group- a group of people having special ethnic, that is, cultural, linguistic or racial characteristics, who are united by full or partial common origin and who themselves are aware of their involvement in general group. Mastered and perceived ethnic differences - language, culture, religion, racial traits - are inherited. As a rule, in modern states Numerous ethnic groups live.
Characteristic feature of an ethnic group- that its members classify themselves as a separate group with own culture, which they strive to preserve by all means. There are 4 mandatory criteria for assigning an individual to a specific ethnic group: self-determination (assigning oneself to an ethnic group, own wish individual to belong to it, to classify himself as a member of the group), the presence family ties, cultural characteristics, availability social organization for internal contacts and for interaction with others.
Thus, an ethnic group can be characterized as an association of people who share common cultural, linguistic, religious or racial characteristics, are characterized by a common origin and are aware of their belonging to a single group.
The main feature of such groups is to distinguish themselves from the people around them, understand the characteristics of their culture and strive to preserve it by all means. Most scientists highlight three main types of ethnic communities that existed in human history: tribes, nationalities and nations.
Studying history ancient world, you have often heard about clans and tribes . A clan was an association of blood relatives who had a common origin, a common place of settlement, a common language, common customs and beliefs.
The next step in uniting people there was a tribe - an association of several clans. Exactly tribes are considered historically the first ethnic union. Each of them had a special myth about its origin, showing its originality and dissimilarity from other tribes. Many traced their ancestry to animal ancestors and tried in every possible way to resemble them - in dances they tried to repeat the habits and movements of sacred animals, they painted themselves as tigers, bears or snakes. This emphasized their own position in the world around them. Now there are almost no tribes left in the world - they survive only in some areas of Africa, on the islands Pacific Ocean, in forests South America. Their life remains the same as thousands of years ago; their ancestors’ ideas about the world, traditions, lifestyles, and behavior patterns are passed on from generation to generation. Representatives of these tribes have never seen cities, modern cars, know nothing about television and cinema. Scientists study surviving tribes and draw conclusions about what life was like for people in ancient times.
With the emergence of states, tribes began to turn into nationalities are larger communities with a unity of language, territory, economic and cultural ties. They often formed one state, but they themselves still remained quite disunited, because a subsistence economy dominated, in which each village produced everything necessary for life and had little need to establish trade ties. Not all nationalities were able to survive to this day - the fate of the Scythians, Etruscans, Assyrians, Khazars and many others is mysterious. And yet most of them have become nations and exist in modern world.
Nations are understood as a stable community of people formed on the basis common origin, a single culture, cohabitation and close communication with each other. The most important thing in the formation of nations is established relationships - economic, political, cultural and interpersonal. Historically, they appeared with the spread of trade relations. Historians date the formation of many European nations to the 16th–17th centuries. These groups are also characterized by the presence of their own national idea, which means one’s answers to questions about the origin of a people, the meaning of its existence, its place in the world, relations with neighbors, features of uniqueness and characteristics of the national character.
The unity of a nation is expressed in a special national culture.
Interethnic relations
In the modern world, no nation can live in complete isolation and necessarily enters into interethnic relations, establishes economic, political, ideological, cultural, legal, diplomatic and other ties. They can be stable (constant) and unstable (periodic), based on competition and cooperation, equal and unequal. However, it is not always possible to do without conflicts. Usually their causes are territorial disputes, historical tensions, oppression of small nations and peoples, the use of national feelings by individual political leaders in order to create a tense situation, the desire of individual peoples to leave multinational state and create your own (otherwise it is called separatism).
There are enough examples of national conflicts in the world - crisis and many years of bloody war in former Yugoslavia, territorial disputes between the republics of the former Soviet Union, separatist sentiments in Northern Ireland and in the Canadian province of Quebec, wars between Central African states and so on.
The basis of these conflicts are ideas about the special role of one’s group in society, which have been characteristic of many peoples since ancient times. Let's give an example from one Indian myth: “To complete the structure of the world, God fashioned three human figures from dough and put them in the oven. After some time, burning with impatience, he took out the first little man from the stove, whose appearance was too light and not very pleasant. It was “uncooked” inside too. A little later, God brought out the second one, it was a great success - it was beautifully brown on the outside and “ripe” on the inside. With joy, God made him the founder of the Indian family. Well, during this time the third one got very burnt and became completely black. The first of the baked men became the founder of the white family, and the last - the black one.” This approach in its extreme forms leads to the conclusion that certain people, by their biological racial qualities, are initially supposedly more gifted and talented, both physically and mentally, and therefore more capable of leadership and management.
Positions of ethnic superiority ultimately lead to discrimination- reduction or deprivation of rights and freedoms for certain group population. In everyday life, this is expressed by prohibiting visits to certain restaurants, beaches, cinemas or urban areas; in the production sector - a ban on professions, inaccessibility of education, impossibility successful career; psychologically - with offensive nicknames, ridicule, jokes about “underdeveloped” people, etc. In extreme cases, minorities live separately in special settlements and marry within their group. This separation system for a long time existed in South Africa ( Republic of South Africa), where the black population was isolated and deprived of most rights.
The 20th century gave many examples of inciting passions on national grounds. Nazi Germany adopted racist ideas about the superiority of one group of people over all others and the existence of a special race Aryans
- the chosen people who should rule the whole world. The implementation of this idea led to the desire to completely destroy Jews, Gypsies, Poles, and subjugate others to the “true Aryans.” The external parameters of the superior race were even determined - specific color hair, physique, eye shape, face shape, etc. It is curious that neither Hitler nor many of his associates themselves fit these parameters.
Now many neo-Nazi parties and movements have emerged that use nationalist ideas to increase their authority and popularity. Who doesn't want to hear that he is the best in the world, the most intelligent and noble, has the only true religion, has a heroic history, and his ancestors dominated other people? Similar ideas are used at rallies and preached in the press. The newly-minted leaders declare unfair oppression from “strangers” and the need to “restore order” by force, for which special combat units are being created. Usually, the less internal culture a person has, the easier it is to convince him of special exclusivity and the presence of enemies who do not allow it to manifest itself. The people behind all this strive for power, fame and popularity, for personal enrichment through pogroms. Behind their visible concerns about the fate of the nation are clearly expressed personal interests. This was, is and will probably still be the case. How long? Much depends on the citizens themselves - as long as there is painful national pride and the desire to blame internal or external enemies for their personal failures, ethnic contradictions and hostility between peoples will remain.
Humanity is trying to solve this problem. Exist various organizations dealing with issues of interaction between peoples - the United Nations, the League of Arab States, the Organization of African Unity, the Association of Nations South-East Asia and others. Many conflicts were ended thanks to their assistance or with the direct intervention of these organizations.
Rational decision national problems is possible only with a combination of two main trends in the development of national relations - differentiation(the people’s desire for independence, preservation and development of national culture, economy, politics) and integration(close cooperation, exchange of cultural values, overcoming alienation and maintaining mutually beneficial contacts). Manifold national cultures should not lead to their isolation, and the rapprochement of nations does not mean the disappearance of differences between them.
When resolving interethnic conflicts, it is necessary to adhere to the following humanistic principles:
- renunciation of violence and coercion;
- search for agreement (consensus);
- recognition of human rights and freedoms as the most important principle;
- readiness for peaceful resolution of controversial issues.
Causes of interethnic conflicts:
Socio-economic - inequality in living standards, different representation in prestigious professions, social strata, authorities.
Cultural-linguistic - insufficient, from the point of view of an ethnic minority, the use of its language and culture in public life.
Ethnodemographic - a rapid change in the ratio of the numbers of contacting peoples due to migration and differences in the level of natural population growth.
Environmental - deterioration in quality environment as a result of its contamination or depletion natural resources due to use by representatives of a different ethnic group.
Extraterritorial - discrepancy between state or administrative borders and the boundaries of settlement of peoples.
Historical - past relationships between peoples (wars, former dominance-subordination relationship, etc.).
Confessional - due to belonging to different religions and confessions, differences in the level of modern religiosity of the population.
Cultural - from the peculiarities of everyday behavior to the specifics of the political culture of the people.
Features of the social status of young people
Topic 12. Youth as a social group
Youth is a socio-demographic group, identified on the basis of a combination of age characteristics (approximately from 16 to 25 years old, some researchers include people under 30 years old), characteristics of social status and certain socio-psychological qualities.
Youth is a period of choosing a profession and your place in life, developing a worldview and life values, choosing a life partner, starting a family, achieving economic independence and socially responsible behavior.
Youth is a specific phase, stage of the human life cycle and is biologically universal.
Transitivity of position.
High level mobility.
Mastering new social roles (employee, student, citizen, family man) associated with changes in status.
Active search your place in life.
Favorable prospects in professional and career terms.
Youth is the most active, mobile and dynamic part of the population, free from stereotypes and prejudices of previous years and possessing the following socio-psychological qualities: mental instability; internal inconsistency; low level tolerance (from Latin tolerantia - patience); the desire to stand out, to be different from the rest; the existence of a specific youth subculture.
It is typical for young people to form informal groups that are characterized by the following signs:
Emergence on the basis of spontaneous communication in specific conditions of a social situation;
Self-organization and independence from official structures;
Models of behavior that are obligatory for participants and differ from the typical ones accepted in society, which are aimed at realizing those unsatisfied in ordinary forms vital needs(they are aimed at self-affirmation, giving social status, gaining security and prestigious self-esteem);
Relative stability, a certain hierarchy among group members;
Expression of different value orientations or even worldviews, behavioral stereotypes that are uncharacteristic of society as a whole;
Attributes that emphasize belonging to a given community.
Depending on the characteristics of youth amateur activities, youth groups and movements can be classified.
| Type name | Its characteristics |
| Aggressive initiative | It is based on the most primitive ideas about the hierarchy of values, based on the cult of persons. Primitivism, visibility of self-affirmation. Popular among teenagers and young people with a minimum level of intellectual and cultural development |
| Shocking (French epater - to amaze, surprise) amateur performance | It is based on a challenge to norms, canons, rules, opinions both in everyday, material forms of life - clothing, hairstyle, and in spiritual ones - art, science. “Challenging” aggression on yourself from others in order to be “noticed” (punk style, etc.) |
| Alternative amateur performance | Based on the development of alternative, systemically contradictory models of behavior that become an end in themselves (hippies, Hare Krishnas, etc.) |
| Social activities | Aimed at solving specific social problems (environmental movements, movements for the revival and preservation of cultural and historical heritage, etc.) |
| Political amateur activities | Aimed at changing the political system and political situation in accordance with the ideas of a specific group |
The acceleration of the pace of development of society determines the increasing role of youth in public life. By getting involved in social relations, young people modify them and, under the influence of transformed conditions, improve themselves.
Sample assignment
I A1. Choose the correct answer. Are the following statements true? psychological characteristics youth? A. For a teenager, external events, actions, and friends are primarily important.
B.B adolescence higher value acquires the inner world of a person, the discovery of one’s own “I”.
1) only A is correct
2) only B is correct
3) both judgments are correct
4) both judgments are incorrect
Transitivity of position.
High level of mobility.
Mastering new social roles (employee, student, citizen, family man) associated with changes in status.
Actively searching for your place in life.
Favorable prospects in professional and career terms.
Problems of youth socialization.
An acute reaction to all the shortcomings of society
Increase in crime among the younger generation
Deterioration in the level and quality of life
Economic insecurity of young scientists
Social vulnerability of young people in the world of work
Youth subcultures
Certain social groups are characterized by special features of consciousness, behavior, and lifestyle. They create their own cultural niche - subculture. Sub in Latin is “under”, i.e. in meaning it contains a connotation of subordination (subculture, deviation from culture).
The youth subculture has:
With your tongue; special fashion; art and style of behavior.
Its carriers are most often informal teenage groups.
Reasons for the widespread use in modern society youth subculture:
In a subcultural community, a teenager gets the opportunity to belong to a select group of peers, which is a reference group for him, a unifying feeling of “we” arises, which increases the level of psychological significance of everyone, gives a certain guarantee (or its illusion) of independence and security from society;
Subculture allows a young person to better feel and demonstrate the independence of his “I”;
Helps a teenager free himself from painful experiences caused by a conflict with outside world adults, with the dominant culture in society.
Young people are encouraged to create a subculture:
- Internal loneliness; - Protest against lies; - Separation from elders;
Need for friends; - Distrust of adults; - Escape from the cruelty of the world;
Conflicts at school and at home; - Power over others; - Confrontation official society;
Escape from social reality or rejection of it; - The desire to find emotional support.
Types of youth subcultures
According to the specific behavior of group members, the following are distinguished:
1. prosocial – groups that do not pose a threat to society, are positive and helpful;
2. antisocial – they criticize any foundations of society, but this confrontation is not extreme;
3. antisocial – not only criticized public order and foundations, but also strive to crush them.
IN Soviet times, our grandparents, fathers and mothers were involved in official youth organizations. This was required by ideology.
By type of hobby:
Musical- subcultures based on fans of various genres of music:
Goths (subculture) - fans of gothic rock, gothic metal.
Metalheads are fans of heavy metal. - Punks are fans of punk rock.
Rastafarians are fans of reggae. - Rappers are fans of rap and hip-hop.
Subcultures based on literature, cinema, animation, games, etc.:
Otaku - anime fans - Roleplayers - role-playing game fans
Bikers - lovers of motorcycles - Furries - fans of anthropomorphic creatures.
Image- subcultures distinguished by style of clothing and behavior:
Cyber Goths - Mods - Hipsters - Freaks - Glamour
Political and ideological- subcultures identified according to social beliefs:
Antifa - Hippie - Yuppie
Expand the concepts of “legal awareness” and “legal culture”. Highlight the factors influencing the legal culture of a teenager.
Legal consciousness – This is a set of ideas and feelings that express the attitude of people and social communities to the current or desired law.
STRUCTURE OF LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS
1. Legal psychology corresponds to the empirical, everyday level of social consciousness, formed as a result of everyday human practice of both individuals and social groups. The content of legal psychology are feelings, emotions, experiences, moods, habits, stereotypes that arise in people in connection with existing legal norms and the practice of their implementation.
2. Legal ideology– This is a set of legal ideas, theories, views that reflect and evaluate legal reality in a conceptual, systematized form.
TYPES OF LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Ordinary legal consciousness – mass ideas of people, their emotions, sentiments about law and legality. These feelings arise under the influence of people’s immediate living conditions and their practical experience.
Professional legal consciousness – concepts, ideas, ideas, beliefs, traditions, stereotypes that develop among legal professionals. Unfortunately, the professional consciousness of lawyers is characterized by both distortions and deformations (“accusatory” or “exculpatory” bias, bureaucracy)
Scientific legal consciousness – ideas, concepts, views expressing a systematic, theoretical development of law. The bearers and generators of this type of reflection of legal phenomena are legal scholars who, as a rule, work in specialized legal research institutes.
Legal culture - the totality of all values created by man in the legal sphere, as well as knowledge and understanding of these values and action in accordance with them.
STRUCTURE OF LEGAL CULTURE
1. psychological element(legal psychology);
2. ideological element(legal ideology);
3. Legal behavior(legally significant behavior, implementation of the law).
Legal culture reflects the qualitative state of the legal life of society and transmits corresponding legal values from generation to generation.
The legal culture of an individual depends on the following indicators:
§ knowledge and understanding of law;
§ respect for the law due to personal conviction;
§ ability to use the law;
§ Subordination of one’s behavior to the requirements of the law.
TYPES OF LEGAL CULTURE
Legal culture of society determined by the level of legal consciousness and legal activity of society, the degree of progressiveness and effectiveness of legal norms.
Legal culture social group may vary greatly depending on the nature of that group. It is higher in social groups that unite people with higher or secondary education. special education, pensioners, employees law enforcement, government workers.
Legal culture of the individual is formed primarily by the education a person receives and the lifestyle he leads. In addition to legal education, the legal culture of an individual presupposes the ability and skills to use the law, subordinating one’s behavior to the requirements of legal norms.
Factors influencing the legal culture of a teenager:
The formation of the legal culture of a minor child is influenced by many factors:
1. Upbringing in the family (starting from birth), when the understanding of good and evil is laid down.
2. Preschool education/upbringing (in kindergarten) – first prohibitions, experience of socialization.
3. School education/upbringing - compliance with the school charter, daily routine, traffic rules, etc.
4. Law lessons – mastering legal terminology, experience working with documents, analyzing situations
5. Close surroundings(relatives, acquaintances, friends) example of compliance/non-compliance with laws
6. Street (socialization experience, deviant behavior and its consequences, the influence of social groups)
7. Mass media (especially TV and Internet) – disseminated principles, creation of behavioral models
8. Public policy(legal activities, implementation of democratic principles).
9. Work of law enforcement agencies (compliance with the principle of punishability, equality before the law)
10. Self-education - reading specialized literature, analyzing situations and life experience.
11. Economic situation(standard of living of the population, availability of the benefits of civilization, etc.)
12. Age characteristics personality of a teenager.
Topic 12. Youth as a social group
The youthis a socio-demographic group identified on the basis of a combination of age characteristics (approximately from 16 to 25 years), characteristics of social status and certain socio-psychological qualities.
Youth is a period of choosing a profession and one’s place in life, developing a worldview and life values, choosing a life partner, starting a family, achieving economic independence and socially responsible behavior.
Youth is a certain phase, stage life cycle human and biologically universal.
– Transitional position.
– High level of mobility.
– Mastering new social roles (employee, student, citizen, family man) associated with changes in status.
– Active search for your place in life.
– Favorable prospects in professional and career terms.
Young people are the most active, mobile and dynamic part of the population, free from stereotypes and prejudices of previous years and possessing the following socio-psychological qualities: mental instability; internal inconsistency; low level of tolerance (from Latin tolerantia - patience); the desire to stand out, to be different from the rest; the existence of a specific youth subculture.
It is typical for young people to unite in informal groups , which are characterized by the following features:
– emergence on the basis of spontaneous communication in specific conditions of a social situation;
– self-organization and independence from official structures;
– obligatory for participants and different from typical, accepted in society, behavior patterns that are aimed at realizing life needs that are unsatisfied in ordinary forms (they are aimed at self-affirmation, giving social status, gaining security and prestigious self-esteem);
– relative stability, a certain hierarchy among group members;
– expression of other value orientations or even worldviews, behavioral stereotypes that are uncharacteristic of society as a whole;
- attributes that emphasize belonging to a given community.
Depending on the characteristics of youth amateur activities, youth groups and movements can be classified.
The acceleration of the pace of development of society determines the increasing role of youth in public life. By getting involved in social relations, young people modify them and, under the influence of transformed conditions, improve themselves.
Sample assignment
A1. Choose the correct answer. Are the following judgments about the psychological characteristics of young people true?
A. For a teenager, external events, actions, and friends are primarily important.
B. In adolescence, it becomes more important inner world person, the discovery of one’s own “I”.
1) only A is correct
2) only B is correct
3) both judgments are correct
4) both judgments are incorrect
The spiritual crisis obliges philosophers and sociologists to look for the foundations for the competent development and education of the new generation. Young people need support and attention, because without this there will be no development of the country. This, in turn, requires an understanding of how the socialization of young people occurs and their assimilation of the values of society.
general characteristics
Young people, as a social group, are characterized by a dependent social status, insufficient personal independence when making decisions regarding their lives; the severity of the problem of choice professional path, life partner, moral and spiritual self-determination; active formation of subjectivity as self-identification, awareness of one’s interests, growth of one’s organization, and great intellectual potential.
The entry of an individual into a social group of youth is characterized by the active development of self-awareness, reflection on oneself and the world. There is an expansion of human living space. An awareness of the future sets in, a life perspective appears, and professional intentions emerge.
The meaning of ideals
Awareness of the need to determine personal goals in life, an intensified search for life guidelines through ideals and values is a feature of this age. Based on this, psychologist Viktor Frankl considered it dangerous to “protect” young people from value and ideological influence under the pretext of preserving the independence of their worldview and inner peace(homeostasis with social environment), since the existential vacuum at this age turns into destructive forms social activity. It is among the young that the perception of new ideals and values, their internalization causes internal conflict, but satisfaction. The psychological stress associated with such internalization contributes to the development of personality, the formation of self-confidence and the ability to overcome difficulties. V. Frankl’s conclusions are confirmed by a study conducted under the direction of V.I. Chuprov and Yu.A. Zubok, the results of which turned out that 64.2% of young people in Russia consider it important for themselves to have ideals, and only 28.6% believe that ideals interfere with a person’s life.
In a study conducted by Professor V.I. Kuznetsov in 2006, 52% of respondents considered themselves to be among those who have ideals, and only 13.2% indicated that they did not have them. However, 34.8% of respondents found it difficult to answer this question. Only 28.5% have ideals that coincide with the ideals of their parents, 31% do not coincide, and 40.5% (!) could not decide on this either.
In search of stability
On the one hand, there is an increasing focus on social continuity, including centuries-old experience Russian culture, on the other hand, on innovation and evolutionism. However, in modern conditions, these two orientations often do not complement each other, but appear in parallel and may come into conflict. As a result, a discreteness of the value field of the individual arises, which leads to the undermining of “ontological security”, that is, according to E. Giddens, the state of people’s confidence in the constancy of the surrounding social and material world in which they live and act. New opportunities are opening up for young people to manage living space, time, money, education, and choosing a form labor activity, career, but there is always a risk of losing these benefits. This situation strengthens the relativism of values in the minds of young people and distrust of ideals, which hinders the formation of the meaning of life, the implementation of a sustainable life strategy, i.e. normal functioning of personal values.
In the modern living conditions of the younger generation, characterized by uncertainty, social innovation necessarily manifests itself in the form of risk. Therefore, self-confidence is replaced by apprehension, fear of change and the desire for stability, which society cannot provide to him.
Since young people are simultaneously the object and subject of socialization, instability in the ways a young person achieves social status is spreading, which is also reflected in the process of internalization of values, because Young people are becoming alienated from historical experience, traditional values, and culturally established forms and methods of social participation. This undermines the sense of “ontological security.” Then a contradiction arises between the objectively inherent desire of young people to occupy appropriate positions in the social structure, to acquire a certain social status and obstacles to its effective integration into society that arise in conditions of social instability and crisis. This contradiction can be resolved by changing the content of socialization, during which not only ready-made models of social participation are laid down, but also the ability to discursively assess changes, separate the situational from the permanent, and identify objectively destructive and constructive social processes.
Lacking sufficient resources and cognitive potential, the ability to influence transformation social structure and institutional norms develop latently and appear, in most cases, during the transition to older age groups, in which the synergy of resources, symbolic capital and sociocultural potential of the individual significantly enhances the individual’s participation in social process as a subject.
Features of further socialization
Thus, the features of the formation of youth as agents social relations determined by a number of factors. Firstly, there is an increase in uncertainty, both in the individual himself and in the construction of relationships with the outside world; contradictions in the structuring of values associated with the search for the meaning of life, disappointment in certain values are intensifying, intrapersonal conflicts, contradictions of past stages of socialization.
Secondly, the need to plan a life strategy based on sustainable social connections, joining new social groups, and establishing a long-term life position, accumulation of social capital.
Thirdly, the incompleteness of the internalization of values and, as a consequence, the inconsistency of the value structure of the individual prevent him from adequately constructing and developing social life.
Fourthly, the state of the individual young man characterized by high dynamics of the value system and active internalization of values. Therefore, young people do not have the opportunity (often the desire) to set long-term goals consistent with the social environment and plan adequate ways to achieve them. As a result, the personality of a modern young man is more inclined to conformism than to inculcate and achieve radical goals, including those related to the destruction of social order.
Fifthly, a young person, finding himself in many new social situations, may experience dissatisfaction, disagreement with circumstances, or protest against established norms. However, the incomplete crystallization of values prevents the realization of these aspirations and limits reflection, the ability of self-esteem and sustainable self-organization. Therefore, a young person strives to overcome the boundaries of the information field in which an individual and a group operate in order to build or expand the real and symbolic space of the life world.
Transgressiveness of youth consciousness
An important characteristic of consciousness that influences the internalization of values among young people is transgressiveness, which is expressed, as the above-mentioned Chuprov and Zubok write, in “ system of attitudes of young people to transfer these models into their lives, due to the lack of stable imperatives in society, the devaluation of the proclaimed value-normative models and social experience» .
Thus, transgressive ideas about what is proper and significant in the future, including those based on intuition, form the basis for the formation of terminal values and social identities of young people.
Consequently, the formation of the weight and significance of values among young people is based not only on correlating the value with the possibilities of its actualization in the present, but also on predicting the possibilities of including values in long-term life strategies, predicting the dynamics of the significance of their living conditions, social connections, and personal properties. " Behavioral strategies of young people are focused not so much on the demands of today’s already elusive world, but rather on the requirements of tomorrow – not yet clear and expressed, but predictable» .
A study by the Center for Sociology of Youth at the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences was conducted in 2006 in 12 regions of the Russian Federation, 2000 people were surveyed. (director Yu.A. Zubok).
Kuznetsov V.I. Youth at the turn of the century // Sociological research. - Rostov-n/D: RSU, 2008. P.46.
Zubok Yu.A., Chuprov V.I. Social regulation under conditions of uncertainty. Theoretical and applied problems in youth research. - M.: Academia, 2008.P. 62.
Right there. P. 65.
Alexander Ogorodnikov