Problems of Personality Socialization: Changing the Value Priorities of Modern Youth

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of changing the value priorities of young men in the conditions of modern social reality. The concept of value orientations of personality is considered as a complex system and process that absorbs and reflects almost all contradictions and changes in the holistic picture of the worlds, which in their essence are the source of personality development. These contradictions arise between socialization and individualisation of the personality: on the one hand, people will inevitably socialise, learning the norms of society; on the other – strive to preserve the individuality of their personality; common values and the freedom they give the human norm and liberty – the two poles, two fightings began; the traditional value orientations and the update that is happening in the mind of the individual. The functions that perform value orientations are revealed: human-making, epistemological, regulatory (normative), axiological function. The authors studied the attitude to value and life-meaning orientations of young men at the unconscious and conscious level; it was revealed that modern young men actively prioritise the categories of beauty and pleasure in their lives and do not consider it essential to show their active life position at this age stage. This leads to the conclusion about the feminisation of modern young men in developing a civilizational society.