Self-assessment of financial status and social strategies of youth

Abstract

As part of the study of youth social strategies, an important aspect is to determine those socialization factors that influence the choice of such strategies and their subsequent implementation. One of these factors is the economic situation of the family of young people – this factor creates different conditions for socialization, creating prerequisites for the formation of certain strategic dispositions, direction and horizon of life planning. The purpose of the article is to study the relationship between economic status and strategic dispositions in various areas of youth life planning and to prove the formation of certain attitudes for choosing social strategies in accordance with the economic conditions of socialization. The article presents the results of the sociological monitoring of 2022 "Social Strategies of Youth", conducted in the Belgorod region, the key social strategies are analyzed from the perspective of the dispositional typology of young people with different economic status (high, above average, average, below average). The results of the study show a real connection between the economic conditions of socialization and attitudes in determining social strategies. A social paradox of the closeness of the strategic attitudes of polar groups with low and high economic status has been revealed.

Keywords

• youth
• economic status
• social strategies
• social dispositions
• stratification