Life strategy of youth in the context of higher education problems

The economys crisis state makes special demands, both to the educational level of modern youth, and tothe higher education system as a whole. No job offers for the specialty and unemployment threat made a considerable number of youngpeople, being trained in higher schools receive a second higher education with another specialty. It has caused a demand of education bycorrespondence and a necessity of theoretical judgment of the current situation. The judgment of the situation of crisis of social identityin socio-humanitarian knowledge leads to several conclusions: difficulties in acceptance of the new system of roles by the person canmean inefficiency of the developed mechanisms of the role adaptation of youth, and necessity of studying the updated system of roles.Problems of higher education as of a special cultural environment are well developed in the domestic and foreign literature. It is possibleto note classical works by E. Giddens, D. Koulman, M. Ratter, Z. Newtten, H. Eser within the phenomenological approach and the theoryof structuration. Revealing the vital strategy of youth within the temporal approach is most urgent for today. One of the basic characteristicsof the person, from the point of view of the given approach is biographic time. The experience and education the person receiveddepreciate in a crisis situation, and new experience, which would provide stability and adaptability for the outcast, is not gainedyet. Events, which were significant earlier for the person, depreciate, and what s/he wants to achieve seems unattainable. E.I. Golovahaand A.A. Kroniks system concept of time interprets such a situation as a biographic crisis. It is a break of a certain sequence of eventsin the consciousness of a person. Social regulation of behaviour, which is carried out through these links between events in consciousness,becomes impossible and, accordingly, the whole system of persons vital practices collapses. Interest of sociology in the problemof a biographic crisis is connected with the fact that the social order sets forms of organization of biographic time, which is realized inan individual course of life of a person with this or that deviation defined by the uniqueness of life circumstances and persons free will.Revealing of laws of formation of structures of biographic time of a person, motives of change of the social behaviour become appliedproblems for sociologists today.

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