Rethinking attitudes towards education in the cultural space of young people

Abstract

In the cultural space of young people, the rethinking of attitudes towards education is accompanied by the emergence of hybrid patterns that combine opposite meanings. From the perspective of normative approach these patterns should be considered as opposing value-normative patterns, standards of social interactions in the field of education. The paper considers the nature of youth deviant behaviour in the context of deviation from the underlying meanings that have been incorporated into the understanding of moral and ethical standards within the dominant culture. Young people's choice in favour of deviant meanings is presented as a consequence of intensified instrumentalisation and rationalisation of youth in the educational sphere. The results of the All-Russian study conducted by the Centre of Sociology of Youth ISPI FNISC RAS in 2020 are presented. The relationships between the level of education, place of study, value of education and deviant meanings in the cultural space of youth are analyzed, which allows to investigate the semantic orientation of self-regulation of deviant behavior of youth in the educational sphere. The findings of the study suggest that the increasing instrumentalization of knowledge and cultural practices in education reinforces the processes of rethinking the essence of social norms in the social reality of youth. This rethinking manifests itself at two poles of rationalization: from the liberalization of these norms to the almost complete leveling out of former standards of interaction.

Keywords

• youth
• education
• deviant meanings
• changing social reality
• self-regulation deviant behavior of the youth