Dynamics of the student youth's value paradigm changes in the information society

Abstract

The paper focuses on the dynamics of the student youth's value paradigm changes occurring in the process are influenced by the following of various factors: technical progress, which has accelerated the automation and computerization of modern society, the emergence of new types of communication in the virtual environment, the process of globalization, which has opened not only new opportunities for rapid integration into the world economic system, but also exacerbated the problem of compatibility of different civilizational patterns and cultures. New perspectives that have appeared through the information society development (the emergence of new classes as a result of the social structure reforms, network social communications, socioeconomic and spiritual-cultural transformation of superethnoses) are ambiguous and contradictory and can provoke a crisis of personal and collective identity of a modern young person. In this regard, the problem of formation of a socially important ideal for the further stable existence of society, as well as the search for positive meanings in the process of individual self-actualization, the choice of values by new generations with due regard to the experience of previous generations is topical. Based on the data obtained from the sociological researches conducted by the authors, value system of the Moscow high schools students (the Bauman Moscow State Technical University and the Moscow branch of the Russian International Academy for Tourism) is reviewed, the comparative analysis of changes of system of values of youth in an information society on the basis of the results received by domestic and foreign scientists of the USA, China and Kazakhstan is given. Studies have shown that the young people's value paradigm is at least multifunctional and combines values of the information society with traditional values. It is concluded that health, family and financial well-being are essential values for student youth. It is also important for young people that work would bring pleasure and opportunities for self-actualization and learning in innovative areas. Such values as love and friendship are shared by young people from different continents and superethnoses.