Sociocular deviances of young people in the sphere of interpersonal interactions: self-regulation and modelling

Abstract

In the semantic space of young people, the rethinking of attitudes towards interpersonal interactions is accompanied by the formation of patterns oriented towards separation, disintegration and self-assertion against the background of the interlocutor. From the point of view of the normative approach, these deviations should be considered as opposing the basic semantic foundations of the norms of social interactions between young people. Sociocultural deviations in social reality are represented in the form of semantic characteristics of the goals and principles of life activity, which are labelled by the representatives of the community as deviant because they do not correspond to the basic, collective interpretations of the normal, permissible and generally accepted in the culture of a particular community. In the article, the nature of sociocultural deviations of young people is considered in the context of their deviation from the original meanings that were laid down in the understanding of the patterns of social interactions within the dominant culture. Orientation to sociocultural deviations is presented as a consequence of strengthening the processes of instrumentalisation and rationalisation of young people in the sphere of interpersonal interactions. The results of the all-Russian research conducted by the Centre of Sociology of Youth of ISPR FCTAS RAS in 2021 are presented. The correlations between the sign of trust/distrust in the interlocutor and semantic deviations in the youth environment are analysed, which makes it possible to study the semantic orientation of self-regulation of youth deviations in the sphere of interpersonal interactions. The application of the method of structural and taxonomic modelling allowed us to study the type of self-regulation of sociocultural deviations of young people in their social reality. The algorithms used automatically selected the elements closest to each other by a sufficiently large number of characteristics and grouped these elements into natural semantic unities. The meanings corresponding to the elements are not distributed chaotically, but are arranged in a certain hierarchy, according to the values of the selected proximity measure. Thus, the semantic deviations were studied, which are concentrated in the core of the semantic unity and on its periphery.