К ВОПРОСУ ОБ ОТНОШЕНИИ СТУДЕНЧЕСКОЙ МОЛОДЕЖИ К ВОЕННОЙ СЛУЖБЕ. ТИПОЛОГИЯ СТУДЕНЧЕСКОЙ МОЛОДЕЖИ РФ

Abstract

The Armed Forces are one of the main political institutions of modern Russian society. This article deals with the problem of the contradiction between the growth of the prestige of military service and the slow process of forming a positive attitude of students to it. The relevance of the research is determined by the objective need for military support of the state. As you know, the period of military age covers the category of youth (including students), which means the potential involvement of students in military service, therefore, the study of the characteristics of the relationship of this category to military service is especially important. The goal is to develop the author's typology of student youth by the nature of their attitude to military service, as well as to apply the method of calculating the aggregated index of student youth's attitude to military service. The article reveals the concept of the attitude of students to military service, analyses the level of prestige of military service among students by using the measure of Central tendency, the arithmetic mean. As a result, the types of student youth ("Patriot", "Sofa warrior", "Indifferent", "Negativist") are identified and characterised by the nature of their attitude to military service. Based on the study of this problem, the presence of a negative attitude of students to military service is established. Military service rather does not have a significant prestige among students. The findings of the study apply to students through-out Russia (which is explained by the selective method of selecting units). Thus, students from such cities as Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Volgograd, Kaluga, Ufa, and small cities of the Moscow region participated in the study.