Actual problems of youth socialization in in the family. Features of the social adaptive influence of the older generation on youth socialization

Abstract

This article deals with the problem of inducting children and youth into the prevailing culture in the modern computer era and the generation transfer of moral and social values, beliefs, and behaviors to future group members. Undoubtedly, man being the social origin and social aspects of child development constitutes the basis of his human life. Nowadays this is a complex endeavor that involves several institutions as well as grave burdens of responsibility for those engaged in the process. The author focuses on computers impact, which becomes a reason for fragmentation as well as contradiction of values, of sociopolitical interests, norms and goals that have partially obliterated traditions that once guided participants in such social institutions as the family, the school, and the wider community in their efforts to socialize the young. Also this article  contributes to a better understanding of the processes by which various elements of our social environment change in value during our socialization process. We can conclude that on the one hand, the main problem is that young people consider their parents as technological outsiders, persons without modern knowledge that could be useful in their future, but on the other hand, the global widening of the information gap and the polarization of information immersion, leading to the appearance of the phenomenon of information outsiders among the older generation, who have lost their previous status in society and don’t have any effective opportunities for resocialization. These results argue for greater attention to the significance of family socialization, and to the persistence of social beliefs across generations.