Gender Analysis of Social Health of Students

Anna Vladimirovna Vereshchagina,Natalia Khalilovna Gafiatulina,Aues Mukhamedovich Kumykov,Sergei Ivanovich Samygin,Oleg Vasilyevich Stepanov

doi:10.5539/res.v7n7p223

Anna Vladimirovna Vereshchagina, Natalia Khalilovna Gafiatulina + Show 3 more

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Abstract

The gender dimension is based on the idea that not the physical or biological differences between the masculine and feminine are significant, but the sociocultural meaning attached by the society to these differences. Gender specification of the sex is exposed quite early, but sometimes it is not noticed and the society, accordingly, does not pay much attention to it in the context of socialization of young people. One of the main reasons of the not entirely satisfactory health status of the youth in all its sides—physical, mental, and social—is at the root of this phenomenon. Despite the fact that at present, the findings of the social determination of the health status, its gender differentiation are generally recognized, the study of Russian students and their social health from the gender perspective has not yet become very popular in the sociological science. In this regard, the authors believe that at the level of sociological reflection, the development of a gender approach to the study of the social health of students, in the light of which this article analyzes the dependence on gender of the social health of students of the Southern Federal University, acquires critical importance.

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The study of social health of students in the social sciences and humanities is based on different methodological approaches that allow assessing the diversity of views on its nature from different viewpoints
—Most students predominantly have pessimistic social well-being in different variations, which generally shows a tendency of social health deterioration
Informal communication is most important for students and is reflected on the state of their social health, as this communication optimizes the state of the psycho-emotional sphere and acts as a support in difficult circumstances

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The study of social health of students in the social sciences and humanities is based on different methodological approaches that allow assessing the diversity of views on its nature from different viewpoints. Modern scientific studies demonstrate permanently growing interest in the study of gender relations and dependence of health on the gender, and in incorporating the gender approach to intellectual comprehension of the “social health” category. Sociological study of the social health of Russian students is of great practical, socio-medical, and public importance. Since the social transformations taking place in the Russian society for over 20 years have significantly changed the social space and along with it the economic, socio-stratificational, cultural and national, ideological, and gender relations, it is natural against the background of these transformations that changes are observed in the pattern of the social health of young people

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