Abstract
The article deals with the analysis of the essential characteristics of media socialization of individuals in the informational society. Based on the theoretical analysis held, the author arrives at the conclusion that media socialization is a topical aspect of the social development of individuals in the social and cultural space of the informational society and is an important component of the modern process of individuals’ socialization. In conditions of modern challenges there increases scholars’ attention to the problems of youths’ socialization – young men being at the stage of the development of their personalities as future professional, they being engaged in the virtual reality of the modern social and cultural space. In this context, it is hard to overestimate the role of institutions of higher education as the leading agents of a socially controlled socialization of individuals in modern social and cultural environment.
Highlights
PROBLEM STATEMENTOne of the most important challenges of the modern theory of socialization is connected with the definition and classification of different institutions of socialization that, depending on their nature, essential characteristics, and peculiarities of their influence on an individual, are referred to different classification structures by different scholars
Analysing socialization in the social and cultural space of the informational society, our attention should be paid to the factors of socialization, which define the directions of the social and pedagogical activity towards socialization of a certain social group
Modern research focuses on the informational civilization with the meaning of the world’s informational society
Summary
One of the most important challenges of the modern theory of socialization is connected with the definition and classification of different institutions of socialization that, depending on their nature, essential characteristics, and peculiarities of their influence on an individual, are referred to different classification structures by different scholars. Ukrainian and foreign scholars tend to subdivide them into the following groups, namely, mega-factors (space, our planet, the world); macro-factors (country, ethnos, society, state, culture); meso-factors (type of dwelling); micro-factors (formal ones: educational establishments and organizations, cultural institutions, etc.; informal ones: family, neighbors, peers, etc.) (Mudrik, 2006; Zelenov & Stiopina, 2010, etc.). In this context, following the works by Anderson, Genner & Süss, Lemish, Livingstone, Prensky and others, we would like to add media as another important mega-factor of socialization in the modern informational society
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