Социализация молодёжи в компьютерно-интерактивной социальной системе: социальные институты и риски коммуникации

Abstract

This paper deals with the topic of socialization of Russian youth in the conditions of modern information and informational society. Modern youth is immersed in the environment of computer and network technologies, and social institutions need to adequately respond to the new challenges of modern society. The rationality and effectiveness of their actions directly affects the degree of riskiness of the new conditions of socialization of young people. The first part of the work is devoted to a brief description of the role of social institutions in the socialization of young people, as well as the characteristics and distinctive features of formal and informal social institutions and their agents. The second part of the work is devoted to the author's content analysis of top resources (communities) in the popular youth social network VKontakte and the analysis of the degree of belonging to formal and informal social institutions. The final part of the paper presents the author's interpretation of the results of the work, an assessment of the current situation of the balance of resources of formal and informal social institutions, and conclusions about the socialization risks for young people. It is assumed that the methodology used can be effective in the field of social analytics and forecasting, and the identified problems will help to form a number of practical measures to reduce the socialization risk for young people in modern society.