The article is devoted to the analysis of the influence of the tendencies on the formation and political socialization of the individual. The author, relying on a comparative method, carries out an analysis of factors that determine the essence of historical processes in the era of modern and “postmodern”, as well as the essence of changes in the order of power relations and socio-political structuring of societies. The author notes that in the post-modern era, the traditional processes of socialization of the individual as “cultural inheritance” and “cultural interpretation” have undergone a radical transformation. Postmodern, who directed his power to de-etatization, deiherarhizatsiya, detolatarizatsiya and individualization of social systems, contributed to the personification of personality, self-determination and, at the same time, systemic alienation. Postmodernism has demonstrated the limited culturally centralism in the system, but the self-sufficiency of the creative as self-realization. Postmodern socialization goes not in the system, but existentially and antisystemically, demonstrating the plurality of forms of self-realization (in a subculture, in anti-culture, in traditional culture). That is, postmodernism has demonstrated the greater importance of the process over the system. The end of the postmodern era reveals the collapse of the social system: a chaotic, anonymous system collapses its boundaries, a person actively experiments (lonely in his alienation), but before it opens the social space of absolute freedom, which permits chaos to be perceived as a complex and unpredictable form of order, when any Some perspectives are multivariate as trails that run out of the garden. On the other hand, it is obvious that the collapse of social systems and the rules of socialization leads to the destruction of the mechanism of cultural perception, the value foundations that formed the basis of traditional humanism. And with the loss of transcendental, cultural meanings and values unfold in the plane of immanent. Personality in a chaotic system is subject to disintegration. The disintegration and dispersion of the I is accompanied by the search for a significant other, which, in the absence of a social system, becomes a virtual social system that provides information and cultural influence on the formation of personality settings. The main existential conflict is the conflict between freedom without restrictions and the absolute dependence on the power of information technology. This puts on the agenda the problem of finding the true semantic orientations of the individual and his responsibility for his destiny.