scholarly journals Student civil activism: Risk of destructive manifestations in the Volga Region

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 595-610
Author(s):  
V. V Shcheblanova ◽  
L. V Loginova ◽  
D. V Zaitsev ◽  
I. Yu Surkova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Active Dissemination ◽  
Vector Activity ◽  
The Government

The article presents the results of the regional sociological study of the student youth civil activism and predicts the development of its destructive manifestations in the Volga Region. Civil activity is an integral component of renewal and social development, which is based on the multi-format and multi-vector activity of young people who strive for social transformations here and now. For some young people, activism became a kind of employment in offline and online formats. In some cases, destructive (even delinquent) civil activism of the youth is a response to an unfair, unlawful action or attitude, primarily of the authorities. Based on the theoretical ideas of structural functionalism, conflictological and interpretive approaches, the article reveals peculiarities of the youth activism in the Volga Region and presents their interpretation. The expert survey allowed to identify relationships between social injustice and civil activity. The authors also identified active dissemination of radical ideas at the grassroots level of everyday life, within everyday forms of interaction and under the decrease in public civil activity, which determines latent conflicts between the population and the government. The risk of an increase in social destructiveness is determined by the crisis of expectations of changes, unsolved social-economic problems, renaissance of socialist ideas that become popular among the youth, and an increase in the number of nonresident and especially foreign students. The student civil activity in the Volga Region focuses on the most pressing challenges at the federal and local levels. Sanctions against students participating in rallies and protest groups in social networks only stimulate the youths interest in protest activities. The region needs a youth policy responsive to the needs and demands of the youth and capable of creating a multi-format space for positive youth activism.

YOUTH POLICY IN MODERN RUSSIA. ABSENTEEISM AND POLITICAL PROTEST

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.I. AVTSINOVA ◽  
М.А. BURDA
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Russian Politics ◽  
High Level

The article analyzes the features of the current youth policy of the Russian Federation aimed at raising the political culture. Despite the current activities of the government institutions in the field under study, absenteeism, as well as the protest potential of the young people, remains at a fairly high level. In this regard, the government acknowledged the importance of forming a positive image of the state power in the eyes of young people and strengthen its influence in the sphere of forming loyal associations, which is not always positively perceived among the youth. The work focuses on the fact that raising the loyalty of youth organizations is one of the factors of political stability, both in case of internal turbulence and external influence. The authors also focus on the beneficiaries of youth protests. The authors paid special attention to the issue of forming political leadership among the youth and the absence of leaders expressing the opinions of young people in modern Russian politics. At the same time, youth protest as a social phenomenon lack class and in some cases ideological differences. The authors come to the conclusion that despite the steps taken by the government and political parties to involve Russian youth in the political agenda, the young people reject leaders of youth opinion imposed by the authorities, either cultivating nonparticipation in the electoral campagines or demonstrating latent protest voting.

scholarly journals The Attitude of Student Youth to Manifestations of Various Types of Extremism (the Case of the Saratov Region)

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
I. N. Konovalov ◽  
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A. S. Azarova ◽  
D. N. Markin ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Radical Ideas

The article is concerned with the phenomenon of extremism among youth. Analyzing the features of modern youth extremism the authors substantiated their conditioning by social, age, historical, and cultural factors. Young people tend to protest and reject the existing system, all-or-nothing thinking. While the phenomena identified as extremism today, repeatedly arose in the process of historical social development. A distinctive feature of the majority of extremist organizations at the present time is their focus on the issues of national identity or the political structure of the Russian society and state, using the principles of a totalitarian sect. In their activities destructive religious organizations themselves are also, as a rule, based on radical ideas, which is why they are recognized as extremist. The article presents the findings of the sociological study conducted in Saratov’s higher educational institutions. Based on the analysis of the study results the authors came to the conclusion that extremist sentiments among student youth are growing towards representatives of various nationalities and religions. The authors assumed that in order to successfully counter youth extremism, first and foremost it is necessary to clearly distinguish its causes, rooted in the society itself and shortcomings of state youth policy, from the forms of its manifestation that have social and group specific features.

scholarly journals Knowledge of Moscow students about the processes, institutions of socialization and the subjects of youth policy in the Russian Federation (based on the 2019 study)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-69
Author(s):  
N. G. Osipova ◽  
S. O. Elishev ◽  
G. B. Pronchev
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Negative Phenomena ◽  
Modern Russian

The paper deals with the knowledge of Moscow students about the processes, institutions of socialization and the subjects of youth policy in Russia. The basis of the empirical base is the sociological study conducted by the authors in April–May 2019 in Moscow. It is noted that students adequately and critically assess the state of modern Russian society and the state, understand the causes of the crisis. The greatest impact on the formation of value orientations of modern Russian youth is provided by the media, family and education institutions. Moreover, the media form both positive and negative benchmarks for young people. Students are aware of the presence of various negative phenomena in the youth environment and show a critical attitude towards them. Comparative analysis with 2013–2017 studies shows that in 2019 the levels of patriotic sentiments among Moscow students and their approval of the activities of political figures, socio-political institutions decreased. The trends of prevalence in the values of young people of consumer orientations, approval of traditionally negative phenomena intensified. This contributes to the desocialization of youth, the manifestation of asocial and unlawful forms of their self-realization, the development of various countercultures, increased conflict tension and aggressiveness of young people, and the growth of extremism in the youth environment. Measures are proposed that increase the social efficiency of the state youth policy of the Russian Federation. The research materials are of interest to specialists involved in the problems of youth socialization and the implementation of state youth policy.

scholarly journals Azerbaijani youth in transition: Is the state youth policy effective enough?

2021 ◽  
pp. 187936652110460
Author(s):  
Anar Valiyev ◽  
Abbas Babayev
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Employment Education ◽  
The Government ◽  
Education And Employment

This article analyzes the role of the state youth policy of Azerbaijan in supporting young people through their transition from school to work, which is one of the stages when young people can be in particularly fragile situation if not provided with necessary opportunities. The reason for studying the case of Azerbaijan is a considerable share of youth Not in Employment, Education, or Training (NEET youth) among the country’s youth community. The NEET indicator is considered as a comprehensive indicator within the post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda to measure youth exclusion and marginalization. The findings of this research demonstrate that while the government assumes a broad responsibility to provide youth with education and employment opportunities to support their transition, these intentions have not been translated into real actions. An alarming situation of the country’s youth population is at risk of further exacerbation due to poor understanding of local realities by such global advocates for youth development as United Nations. We discuss this considering the flaws in the operationalization and localization of the concept of the “youth participation” promoted by the United Nations to advance youth interests.

scholarly journals TIME OF CHANGES: THE PATH TO "RECOVERY" ENVIRONMENT AND YOUTH POLICY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 476
Author(s):  
Olga Когiakovtseva ◽  
Irena Upeniece ◽  
Tatyana Dosse
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
The State ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Civic Consciousness ◽  
State And Society

The Article is devoted to problems of improvement of the youth environment in conditions of social transformations. The authors examine the role of youth policy of the state and society in solution of the mentioned problems. The article suggests a system of measures for the development of spiritual, moral, cultural and physical potential of young people. Based on subject-subject approach is determined by the conditions of their realization. Confirmation of the authors ' conclusions are results of research of processes of socialization, participation and samuoliene youth in society, the motives and peculiarities of manifestation of its civic consciousness, value scale of young people.

scholarly journals The influence of patriotic education on the image of a patriot among young people (using the example of the Yaroslavl region)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Zagrebin ◽  
Igor Y. Kiselev ◽  
Natalia V. Ovchinnikova ◽  
Anna G. Smirnova ◽  
Elisey V. Yasyuchenya
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Volunteer Work ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
Patriotic Education ◽  
Multimedia Technologies ◽  
Clear Idea

In modern conditions of globalization and the introduction of the Internet into the daily life of young people, there is a blurring of the value of patriotism in the mass consciousness of young people. This process takes place in the time when one of the main directions of the implementation of the national state youth policy is directly related to patriotic education. The article is based on the materials of a sociological study of the subjective understanding of patriotism in the minds of regional youth involved in the process of patriotic education. On a targeted sample, 345 respondents aged 14 to 30, living in the Yaroslavl region and carrying out activities within the framework of patriotic education, were interviewed. The results of the empirical study lead to a number of conclusions. First, the vast majority of the surveyed respondents identify themselves as patriots of their country. At the same time, girls are more willing than boys to call themselves patriots. Secondly, a clear idea of patriotism has not been formed in the minds of young people. Thirdly, the associative component is also poorly represented in the image of a patriot - the respondents could not name a “true” patriot and an “antipatriot”, which indicates the absence of a single reference group in the youth environment. Fourthly, the main feature of young people, involved in the process of patriotic education, reveals the fact that they do not only identify themselves as patriots, but are also ready for active volunteer work as well. Fifth, respondents highly appreciate the work of state institutions specializing in patriotic education. As a recommendation, we can propose to pay more attention to the introduction of modern multimedia technologies in the educational sphere.

scholarly journals Russian Youth Forums: Sites of Managed Youth Empowerment

Young ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 110330882199093
Author(s):  
Kristiina Silvan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Youth Empowerment ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
The Government

In the 2010s Russia, government-organized local, regional and national youth forums have become major sites for state-youth interaction. These typically weeklong summer camps are organized across Russia, attracting up to one million participants annually. Although the forums have diverse foci, they are all formal platforms of youth participation, aimed at young people engaging in ‘compliant’ forms of activism. Drawing from qualitative content analysis of official reports and media accounts combined with participant observation and interview data, this article analyses the forums as a case of youth policy in an authoritarian political setting. It finds that the government treats youth as a ‘problematic resource’. Moreover, while the forums’ agenda is defined by the policymakers, young people acquire and apply agency to navigate and negotiate the official agenda and re-signify it to respond to their interests. This process, it is argued, has an empowering effect regardless of the constraining authoritarian setting.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Moscow University students of social inequality in Russia and in the modern world

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-23
Author(s):  
N. G. Osipova ◽  
S. O. Elishev ◽  
G. B. Pronchev
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
State University ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Political Processes

This paper deals with an analysis of the results of a sociological research aimed at studying the students’ perceptions of the nature and various forms of social inequality that occur in Russia as well as the modern world. The study was conducted in 2019 at the sociology faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University, in the framework of regular monitoring (since 2013) of Moscow student youth’ perception of socio-political processes, institutions of socialization and subjects of youth policy. A sociological study was conducted. During the study, 811 students of 50 “humanitarian” and 50 “natural” faculties of higher educational institutions in Moscow were interviewed. 45,6% of young people interviewed were males, and 54,4% were females. 60,4% of the respondents were young people aged 18 to 22 years, 18,9% — from 23 to 26 years old, 13,3% — from 14 to 18 years old, 7,4% — from 27 to 30 years old. The article analyzes the students’ answers to the following questions: Do you think that acute social inequality occurs in the modern world? What reasons underlie social inequality? What, in your opinion, is the cause of social inequality? What types of social inequality are most common in the modern world? What forms and types of social inequality are most common in modern Russian society? How often do you encounter the following manifestations of social inequality? How do you feel about the problem of global social inequality? and a number of others. A detailed analysis of the answers to these and other questions presented in the article showed that social inequality is recognized by students as an urgent social problem, which, unfortunately, the authorities do not pay enough attention to.

PERCEPTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES: A CASE IN THE LEPELLE-NKUMPI MUNICIPAL AREA

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-89
Author(s):  
Matshidiso Kanjere
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Young People ◽  
South African ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
South Africans ◽  
African Youth ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
The Government

The South African youth faces multiple challenges that range from illiteracy, drug and alcohol abuse, crime and HIV/AIDS, to unemployment. These challenges and many other ills in society have led to interventions by government, and private and other civil societies. The government has established and initiated a number of programmes that aim at building capacity and helping the youth to cope with these multiple challenges. Some of the programmes are aimed at building leadership capacity among the impoverished youth in rural communities. A lot of money is being invested in these programmes, which are meant to develop young South Africans. However, there are some young people who do not participate in these programmes. They are also not in the formal education system, self-employed or employed elsewhere. And they are despondent. The government, private sector and non-governmental organisations are trying hard to bring these youths and others into the developmental arena, so that they can be active participants in the economy of the country in the near future. However, little research has been conducted to assess the broad impact of the various programmes in the country. The contribution that these programmes are making toward improving the livelihoods of young people has to be determined on a larger scale. Nevertheless, this article reports on an investigation that was conducted on a smaller scale, at the Lepelle-Nkumpi Local Municipality. The aim of the research was to explore the perceptions young South Africans have of the leadership development programmes that they have participated in. A mixed research approach was used to collect data and the key findings indicated that knowledge accumulated through participation in the programmes does not always translate into practical applications. However, the programmes were deemed to be valuable in instilling a positive life-view. The study recommends that support systems be established in the rural areas to assist young people with life challenges.

PRIORITY DIRECTIONS FOR FORMING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE AMONG YOUTH

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Aktam Xolov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Sociological Study

The article discusses the priorities of forming a business environment and culture among young people. The results of a comprehensive sociological study on the formation of an entrepreneurial environment and culture among young people were also analyzed and proposals and recommendations for the formation of an entrepreneurial environment and culture among youth were developed.

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