Образование, рынок труда и социальное поведение молодежи

Abstract

The interaction between the educational system, labor market, and social behavior of young people, improving compliance of each of the components with one another is one of the most actual scientific and practical problems today. A significant number of the within-country empirical studies as well as cross-country empirical studies appeared in these latter days. However, these studies are focused only on some of the elements of the three-element system, but not on all of them. That is why there is a need to move towards a complex study. In the project initiated by sociologists of the Institute of Sociology of RAS and supported by the Russian Science Foundation such an approach will be implemented. The paper based on generalization of existing statistic data and results of sociological research offers some ideas about this issue. It is noted that the labor market is inextricably linked with educational sphere and social behavior of young people choosing their educational and professional careers. At the same time, it functions very independently from them. Youth get labor market signals with some distortions that disturb young people to orientate themselves at the situation. The educational system is functioning quite autonomously from the labor market and in close connection with the social behavior of young people. Students and their parents became direct consumers of so-called educational services. As a consequence the orientation of the educational institutions becomes stronger to the needs of families (or rather, families’ understanding of their needs). Differentiation in the sphere of education, the existing inequality of getting quality education and other social problems are analyzed. The considerations will form the basis of the research project’s conception.