Вестник Майкопского государственного технологического университета (Mar 2023)
Life strategies of modern young men (on the materials of a sociological research)
Abstract
The article considers the problems of forming life strategies in young men using the results of empirical data analysis. The relevance of the scientific research is due, on the one hand, to demographic processes, which are associated, inter alia, with high mortality of men, and, on the other, to the crisis of masculinity and the transformation of masculinity in modern society, which have entailed the problems of role-based self-identification and self-realization of men. The purpose of the research is to analyze the features of the formation of life strategies of young men as social actors in modern Russian society. The objects of the research are young men as social actors in modern Russian society, the subject is features of the formation of life strategies of young men. The author used the method of mass survey (questionnaire). The sample size was 150 people, including 55% of men living in St. Petersburg, 45% - in the city of Orel, aged 18 to 35 years. The research has showed that the level of education has little effect on the choice of life strategies for young men. Petersburgers, as well as men in Orel, actively choose two models of life strategies - models of activity-risk and consumer orientations. The author notes that in modern Russian society the choice of life guidelines, goals and strategies remains difficult, but, nevertheless, it is independent and exclusively personal affair of every young man. Young men often do not have sufficient grounds for a rational choice and development of a life strategy as a holistic matter when they face the chaotic activity of various institutional structures.
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