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Three features of youth as a social group. Section II

Lecture on social studies in 10th grade

Topic: Youth as a social group

Features of the youth subculture

The youthis a socio-demographic group identified on the basis of a set of age characteristics (approximately from 16 to 25 years1), 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.

Features of the social status of young people

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.

The youth - this is the most active, mobile and dynamic part of the population, free from stereotypes and prejudices of previous years and possessing the followingsocio-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 youthsubcultures.

Subculture- part of the culture of society, distinguished by its behavior from the overwhelming majority

It is typical for young people to unite ininformal groups , which are characterized by the followingsigns:

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 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 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.

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 - time to reap, 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.

The youth- this is 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 specific phase, stage of the human life cycle and is biologically universal.

Features of the social status of young people

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.

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 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;

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 young people’s amateur performances, it is possible classify youth groups and movements.

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 activity. 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 initiative. Aimed at changing the political system and political situation in accordance with the ideas of a specific group

2. Typology of political regimes.

Political regime– a set of methods for exercising power and achieving political goals.

Characteristics of the political regime:

· scope of human rights and freedoms,

· methods of exercising state power,

the nature of the relationship between state and society,

· the presence or absence of opportunities for society to influence political decision-making,

· ways of forming political institutions,

· methods for developing political decisions.

2. Classification of political regimes

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 professional and career prospects

B. 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 of tolerance (from Latin tolerantia - patience)

· desire to stand out, to be different from others

· the existence of a specific youth subculture

It is typical for young people to unite in informal groups, which are characterized by the following characteristics:

2. Signs of informal youth groups

· emergence on the basis of spontaneous communication in specific conditions of a social situation

· models of behavior that are mandatory for participants and differ from typical ones accepted in society, which 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)

· expression of other value orientations or even worldviews, behavioral stereotypes that are not typical for society as a whole

self-organization and independence from official structures

· relative stability, a certain hierarchy among group members

· attributes emphasizing belonging to a given community

Depending on the characteristics of youth amateur activities, youth groups and movements can be classified.

Types of youth activities

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 ordinary, material forms of life - clothing, hairstyle, and in spiritual ones - art, science. “Challenge” aggression to yourself from other persons in order to be “noticed” (punk style, etc.)
Alternative amateur performance	Based on the development of alternative, systemically contradictory models of behavior, which becomes an end in itself (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

Ethnic communities

1. Modern humanity is a complex ethnic structure, including several thousand ethnic communities (nations, nationalities, tribes, ethnic groups, etc.), differing both in size and level of development. All ethnic communities of the Earth are part of more than two hundred states. Therefore, most modern states are multi-ethnic. For example, India is home to several hundred ethnic communities, while Nigeria is home to 200 peoples. The modern Russian Federation includes more than 100 ethnic groups, including about 30 nations.

2. Ethnic community - is a historically established stable collection of people (tribe, nationality, nation, people) in a certain territory, possessing common features and stable characteristics of culture, language, mental makeup, self-awareness and historical memory, as well as awareness of their interests and goals, their unity, differences from other detailed formations.

Types of ethnic communities

Genus

Tribe

Nationality

Nation

A group of blood relatives descended from the same line (maternal or paternal)

A set of clans interconnected by common cultural features, awareness of a common origin, as well as a common dialect, unity of religious ideas and rituals

A historically established community of people, united by a common territory, language, mental makeup, culture

A historically established community of people, characterized by developed economic ties, a common territory and a common language, culture, and ethnic identity

2. The concept of “ethnic minorities” is widely used in sociology, which includes not just quantitative data:

its representatives are at a disadvantage compared to other ethnic groups due to discrimination(belittling, belittling, infringement) on the part of other ethnic groups

its members experience a certain sense of group solidarity, “belonging to a single whole”

· it is usually to some extent physically and socially isolated from the rest of society

3. Prerequisites for the formation of the ethnic group

· The natural prerequisite for the formation of one or another ethnic group was community of territory, since it created the necessary conditions for joint activities of people. However, later, when the ethnic group has formed, this feature loses its main meaning and may be completely absent. Thus, some ethnic groups and in conditions diaspora(from the Greek diaspora - scattering) maintained their identity without having a single territory.

· Another important condition for the formation of an ethnic group is community of language. But this feature cannot be considered universal, since in a number of cases (for example, the United States), an ethnic group takes shape during the development of economic, political and other ties, and common languages are the result of this process.

· A more stable sign of an ethnic community is the unity of such components of spiritual culture as values, norms And behavior patterns, as well as related socio-psychological characteristics of consciousness And people's behavior.

· An integrative indicator of the established socio-ethnic community is ethnic identity - a sense of belonging to a particular ethnic group, awareness of one’s unity and difference from other ethnic groups. An important role in the development of ethnic self-awareness is played by ideas about common origin, history, historical destinies, as well as traditions, customs, rituals, folklore, i.e. those elements of culture that are passed on from generation to generation and form a specific ethnic culture.

National interests. Thanks to ethnic self-awareness, a person keenly feels the interests of his people and compares them with the interests of other peoples and the world community. Awareness of ethnic interests encourages a person to engage in activities in the process of which they are realized.

Let's mark two sides national interests:

5. Ethnonational communities develop from clan, tribe, nation, reaching the level of nation-state.

Derived from the concept of “nation” is the term “ nationality”, which is used in Russian as a name for a person’s belonging to any ethnic group.

Many modern researchers consider a classic interethnic nation, in which general civic qualities come to the fore and at the same time the characteristics of the ethnic groups included in it are preserved - language, their own culture, traditions, customs.

Interethnic, civic nation is the totality (community) of citizens of a particular state. Some scientists believe that the formation of such a nation means the “end of the nation” in the ethnic dimension. Others, recognizing the nation-state, believe that we should talk not about the “end of the nation,” but about its new qualitative state.

Interethnic relations, ethnosocial conflicts, ways to resolve them

1. Interethnic relations, due to their multidimensional nature, are a complex phenomenon.

A. They include two varieties:

B. The methods of peaceful cooperation are quite diverse.

A group is an association of people with common interests that influence each other. In groups they satisfy communication needs; master the skills of living with other people; learn certain statistical and behavioral norms; are attracted to certain subcultures. Subculture is understood as a set of specific socio-psychological characteristics that influence the lifestyle and thinking of certain groups of people and allow them to recognize and establish themselves as different from other representatives of society. Subcultures refer to stylized mechanisms of personality socialization.

As a result of teenagers and young people’s rejection of youth and economic reforms, social and spiritual values of the state, and the exacerbation of their own problems, they began to unite in various groups

According to their legal status, groups (associations) are divided into formal (officially recognized) and informal (exist spontaneously). Basically, informal associations appear as a protest against existing orders and a search for fairer forms of communication.

Having analyzed the reasons why teenagers and young people end up in informal groups, scientists have identified the main ones:

Need for friends;

A desire to experience the unusual, including modern trends in art;

Failure in school and alienation from the school community;

Lack of interest in anything, inactivity, indifference to study;

The need for emotional impressions;

Lack of individual approach at school;

Neglect, loneliness, abandonment, defenselessness;

Originality of impressions received in the group, freedom;

The opportunity to protest against something;

Inaccessibility of education;

Lack of employment and others;

According to social orientation, groups are divided into:

1 prosocial. Among members of social subcultures, norms of behavior do not contradict generally accepted

2. Antisocial, in which group culture is opposed to social norms, and its carriers are distinguished by destructive behavior aimed at destroying established norms and values of social life

3. Asocial groups in which there is a transformation of universal human norms. Carriers are characterized by deviant behavior that does not coincide with social norms and values accepted in society. A separate subgroup consists of criminogenic groups, which are united on the basis of activities that are antisocial in nature. There are three levels of development of criminal groups.

1. Antisocial (pre-zlochinni) groups of teenagers with a focus on antisocial activities. Such groups arise at the place of residence, they are characterized by an indefinite pastime, antisocial behavior: gambling, drunkenness, minor offenses. The full group members do not commit any offenses. To do this, they do not have a leader and the group is not united.

2. Criminal groups are characterized by criminal orientation of value orientations. Drunkenness, debauchery, and greed become the norm. The group moves on to crimes that are more significant to society. However, the group does not prepare for criminal activity in advance. Criminal activity is not organized.

3. Criminal groups. In groups there is a guiding center - the leader, there are unwritten laws and values, sanctions. The composition of the group is permanent, a crime plan is being developed. Members of the group have bladed weapons and are capable of scurrying around thefts, robberies, violence, robbery and attacks.

Peculiar signs of subculture in informal associations:

Specific value orientations and norms of behavior;

Peculiar hobbies, tastes;

Special ways to spend time;

Jargons;

Features of clothing and appearance

It’s not fashionable to be ordinary among children these days; you need to stand out from the crowd. Out-of-school education at this stage is not widespread, so schoolchildren after school (until their parents see) take up weapons in their hands, scour dangerous areas, imitating non-childish games. There is a diverse number of groups among which it is possible to define tactics.

. Shocking amateur groups . The purpose of joining such groups is to belong to an elite subculture. Typical representatives are punks, majors, washers, bikers, goths, emo

Punks are marked by rooster hairstyles (Mohawks), painted hair in different colors, a leather jacket on a naked body, coarse slang, causing behavioral

Bikers ride motorcycles without mufflers, at high speed, mostly at night, and do not have a driving license.

Majors wear clothes from foreign countries, drive expensive cars, like to drive fast, and lead an active lifestyle

Postiray emphasize disrespectful attitude towards others, block active activity

Grouping. Emo brings together children who are not afraid of death and disregard the rules; they can be recognized by their black and pink clothing and the obligatory bangs on the forehead. Emo - from the word "emotion" These are those who are not hidden in their feelings, they laugh and cry loudly. The main danger of black and pink teenagers is the cult of suicide. Children don't even hide it. Adults. Emos prove suicide to the end, murder to the end.

. Amateur cultural groups aimed at creating new artistic values. The most widespread are hippies, musicians who create music on the computer, rockers (Beatlemaniacs, obscurantists, hardrockers, metalheads, breakers), and etalists - supporters of metal rock are divided into: heavy metal rock (heavy metal rock), black metal rock ( black metal rock), high-speed metal rock (speed metal rock), professing the cult of sat ani, calling for violence, cruelty, cyber-punks - people who are passionate about computers.

Members of the hippie group have an interest in denim clothing. They wear long hair parted in the middle, with a thin bandage at the head. Their philosophy is based on inner freedom, independence from society, a spirit of pacifism, they oppose military service, they believe in meditation, their clothing and behavior is explained by the desire not to break away from nature.

. Social groups . The activities of such groups are aimed at solving social problems - ecologists, ecoculturists, ethnoculturists, mutual support groups, internationalists, etc.

. Political amateur groups - political clubs, social initiative funds. The activity is aimed at changing the political situation and political conditions in the country

Aggressive amateur groups

Sports fans are a group of people who are united by reverence for football players

Right-wing extremists are neo-fascists and copy the image. Hitler, have reactionary views

Livoextremists - supporters of Soviet politicians

. Graffiti . Representatives of this group depict certain symbols and statements on the walls of houses, fences, in elevators anywhere. In this way, they express protest against certain social norms, certain people, and also assert themselves through symbolic identification with their favorite sports teams, musical groups or movements.

When working with such teenagers and young people, a social educator needs to know the characteristics of each group, each member. It is necessary to collect data about existing groups in the microenvironment, identify their members, find out interests, their level, ideals, beliefs, desires, find out the structure of the group, rules for admission to it, the nature of leadership, relationships between members.

The concept of “youth” as a definition of a socio-demographic group dates back to the late 18th – early 19th centuries. Before this, young people were not recognized as a special social group. Until the end of the 19th century. the problems of youth were considered indirectly, through the problems of personal development, education of a citizen of a historically specific society, which found a scientific form of expression in philosophy, pedagogy, psychology of the Renaissance, modern times, Western philosophy of the 17th - 18th centuries. The actualization of theoretical studies of youth and the creation of independent concepts of age occurred at the beginning of the 20th century. and was developed in sociological theories of youth. Youth as a special social group was recognized on completely objective grounds, by which it is customary to understand those basic aspects and relationships that determine the functioning, direction of change and development of all other aspects of a given social entity. Concepts of youth in the sociocultural aspect began to be developed in the 50s. XX century such researchers as G. Shelsky, K. Mannheim, A. Tenbruck, S. Eisenstadt.

Today, in the circles of sociologists, the view of youth as a reference socio-demographic group has become established, the most important features of which most authors consider age characteristics and associated features of social status, as well as socio-psychological qualities determined by both, which allows us to talk about multi-level analysis of youth as a social phenomenon. One of the researchers of the problems of the younger generation, S. N. Ikonnikova, identified three levels of description of youth as a social phenomenon:

─ individual psychological – correlation with a specific person;

─ socio-psychological – description of the most significant properties, qualities, interests of individual groups;

─ sociological - a description of the place of youth in the system of material and spiritual production and consumption in the social structure of society.

Youth as part of society is studied in various humanities. The discussion about the definition of youth and the criteria for identifying them as an independent group has a long history. Scientists share different approaches to the subject of study - from the perspective of sociology, psychology, physiology, demography, etc., as well as classification traditions formed within the framework of certain scientific schools.

Researchers Vishnevsky Yu. R., Kovaleva A. I., Lukov V. A. et al. The most typical approaches found in the scientific literature are the following:

─ psychological: youth is the period of development of the human personality between “puberty” (puberty) and “maturity” (full maturity);

─ socio-psychological: youth is a certain age with its own biological and psychological relationships, and as a result - all the characteristics of the age class;

─ conflictological: youth is a difficult, stressful and extremely important period of life, a long-term conflict between the individual and society, a problematic stage in human development;

─ role-playing: youth is a special behavioral phase in a person’s life, when he no longer plays the role of a child, and at the same time is not yet a full-fledged bearer of the role of an “adult”;

─ subcultural: youth are a group with their own specific way of life, lifestyle, cultural norms;

─ stratification: youth are a special socio-demographic group, limited by age, with specific positions, statuses, roles;

─ socialization: youth is a period of social growth, primary socialization;

─ interactionist: youth is one of three states of mind inherent in every person. “Parent” – orientation towards normative behavior, “adult” – orientation towards making adult decisions, “youth” – spontaneity, spontaneity;

─ axiological: youth is a socially significant, important stage in a person’s life cycle. It is at this stage that a system of value orientations of individuals is formed;

─ subjective: youth is a special attitude, focus on the future, optimism;

─ procedural: young people are those who are not completed, not integrated, are in a state of formation, formation.

In accordance with these approaches, scientists are making attempts to isolate and unify the “signs” of youth as a social phenomenon. Based on an analysis of the works of Russian authors, the following characteristics of youth can be identified:

─ age;

─ socio-historical;

─ sociological;

─ spiritual and cultural;

─ socio-psychological;

─ cultural;

Thus, the distinctive social quality of each new generation of youth (or its individual groups) is determined by the characteristics of the personal, objective and procedural aspects of its specific historical existence, which determine the ability to inherit, reproduce and improve the social structure of society. Youth is a socio-demographic group, identified on the basis of a combination of age characteristics (approximately from 16 to 30 years), characteristics of social status and certain socio-psychological qualities. Youth is a specific phase, stage of the human life cycle and is biologically universal. 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.

Features of the social status of young people:

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.

It is typical for young people to form 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;

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 activities, youth groups and movements can be classified:

Aggressive activity

Shocking activity

Alternative activities

It is based on the development of alternative, systemically contradictory models of behavior that become an end in itself.

Social activities

Aimed at solving specific social problems (environmental movements, movements for the revival and preservation of cultural and historical heritage, etc.).

Political activity

Aimed at changing the political system and political situation in accordance with the ideas of a specific group.

Youth social problems, which are the subject of scientific analysis, are divided into two large groups. The first includes specifically youth social problems: determining the essence of youth as a social group, the characteristics of its social position (status), role and place in the social reproduction of society; establishing criteria for its age limits; studying the characteristics of consciousness (needs, interests, values) and methods of activity of the younger generation; research into the specifics of the process of socialization of young people, their socio-professional orientation and adaptation in the team; analysis of social aspects of the activities of informal youth associations and movements.

Another important area of scientific analysis consists of problems that are general sociological and at the same time either primarily concern young people (problems of education, family, marriage), or find specific manifestations in the youth environment (features of education, the development of social and political activity of youth, their role and place in power structures, specifics of social contradictions and conflicts, etc.). Numerous studies allow us to conclude that young people face quite common fundamental contradictions inherent in modern risk societies:

wealth and poverty,

growth of opportunities for self-realization and unemployment,

global subculture and abundance of countercultures,

education and complete illiteracy,

the value of health, the cult of sports and drug addiction, smoking, alcoholism - they are a consequence.

Among the youth problems of the Russian risk society, the following stand out:

decline in real living standards,

significant stratification in terms of financial status,

increase in morbidity, including especially dangerous diseases,

deterioration of the educational infrastructure and quality of educational services,

high unemployment rate,

crisis of a young family,

commercialization of culture,

growth of lack of spirituality and crime among young people.

In conditions when risk turns into the general basis of modernity, the riskological direction in the study of youth becomes promising. Its result was a reasonable conclusion that the dominance of risk in behavior patterns is a general characteristic of modern young generations, and risk is one of the essential properties of youth as a social group. At each stage of its development, society makes certain demands on the younger generation, expressed in the form of social norms, values, morality, etc., and also provides various opportunities for its successful integration into social structures.

The problems faced by young people are related to the position of young people in the social structure, characterized primarily by transition and instability. The social processes that are taking place in modern times only aggravate these problems. Factors influencing the situation of young people:

Economic factors most influence the situation of young people. For the most part, young people are not sufficiently well-off financially, do not have their own housing, and are forced to rely on financial assistance from their parents. The desire to get an education delays the start of working life to a more mature age, and the lack of knowledge and experience prevents people from obtaining highly paid positions. The wages of young people are much lower than the average wage, and student scholarships are extremely small.

If during periods of social stability these problems can generally be solved or mitigated, then during a crisis they become significantly more complicated. In a situation of economic recession, the number of unemployed among young people sharply increases and it becomes increasingly difficult for young people to achieve a state of economic independence.

Spiritual factors are no less important. In modern times, the process of loss of moral guidelines and erosion of traditional norms and values is intensifying. Young people, as a transitional and unstable social group, are most vulnerable to the negative trends of our time. Thus, the values of labor, freedom, democracy, and interethnic tolerance are gradually leveled out, and these “outdated” values are replaced by a consumerist attitude towards the world, intolerance towards others, and herdism. The protest charge characteristic of young people in times of crisis is distorted, acquiring cruel and aggressive forms. At the same time, an avalanche-like criminalization of youth is occurring, and the number of young people with social deviations, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, and prostitution, is growing.

The most important spiritual problem remains the problem of “fathers and sons”, associated with the conflict between the values of young people and the older generation.

But there are also deeper, more difficult to determine, and perhaps more significant reasons for suicide in children. To the question: “What can cause a teenager to commit suicide?” schoolchildren usually start talking about problems at school, misunderstanding of parents, conflicts with friends, loneliness, emptiness of life... Suicides due to bad grades and the Unified State Examination have become so frequent in Russia that it is high time to sound the alarm. In the meantime, society is reacting very sluggishly to this misfortune, and parents, with their zeal for forcibly educating their children, only create a favorable situation for their children to voluntarily give up their lives. A study of the problem of suicide among young people shows that in a number of cases, teenagers decided to commit suicide in order to draw the attention of parents and teachers to their problems and protested in such a terrible way against the callousness, indifference, cynicism and cruelty of adults. As a rule, teenagers who are closed and vulnerable in character decide to take such a step because of a feeling of loneliness, their own unnecessary stress and loss of the meaning of life. Timely psychological support and kind participation shown to a person in a difficult life situation would help to avoid tragedy.

Young people, on the one hand, are an unprotected group, which is rather a destabilizing force in society, and on the other hand, they are the generation on which the future of the country depends. This special status of youth gives rise to the need for an adequate youth policy that can solve or mitigate existing problems, as well as channel the creative potential of youth into a creative direction.

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