Virtualization Of Youth Deviation As Trend Of Information Society

Abstract

This article presents the process of virtualization of youth deviation as a trend of information society. In accordance with performed researches, it is concluded that youth as a special social community in virtue of its performance specifications has a prepossession for irregularity in all its forms and manifestations of both positive and negative dispositions. This community is innovative, initiating new behavior patterns, its own slang, fashion, values and subcultural communications. Reference is made to a tendency of virtualization of youth deviation. Basic social needs are set up to actualize through the Internet and web virtual contacts, aggression has spurted, ties of interchangeable nature are settled, and the crimes are committed. The youth is presented as a special social community, which mentality and functional characteristics dispose to breaking different kinds of rules; moreover, the irregularities might be of both positive and negative nature. It is established that the social deviations among the youth are often determined by not meeting their basic needs -by the lack of communication, the lack or absence of ability of self-affirmation or self-fulfillment. The approaches to possible preventive measures of youth deviation are developed.

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