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Babanina D.V. Youth subculture as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Journal of Social Policy, Population Preservation and Reproductivity. 2024; 3(4). Available at: https://spnjournal.ru/PDF/02SPN424.pdf (in Russian).

Youth subculture as a socio-cultural phenomenon

Babanina Darya Vasilyevna
Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Stavropol, Russia
E-mail: darbabanina@yandex.ru
RSCI: https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=1169049

Abstract. The problems of youth are among the priorities throughout the existence of mankind. This explains the scientific interest in this social group. Formally, it is determined by the appropriate age limits, which is not fully able to identify the patterns of its existence and vital activity. Traditionally, criminology and sociology consider young people from the perspective of specific relationships determined by the peculiarities of perception of the surrounding reality. Through the prism of their ideas about this, young people unite in certain social communities, of which the so-called subcultural relations can act as a consolidating element. The author of the proposed article has been researching the specifics of the youth subculture in our country for many years. The formation of complex ideas about this took place in several stages — practical (direct work with difficult teenagers) and scientific (conducting a special criminological study, the result of which was the writing of a dissertation). The volume of data obtained both during the period of law enforcement and research activities allowed not only to formulate the author’s concept of «»youth subculture», but also to give an exhaustive classification of its main features-indicators. In particular, unlike the youth subcultures that have developed in Russian sociology and criminology, they cannot be considered as «exclusively destructive». Based on the author’s position, this social phenomenon is considered from the point of view of its phenomenological position in the structure of knowledge about youth. An integrated approach made it possible not only to determine the nature of certain types of youth subculture, but also to determine the main priorities for the prevention of their most destructive forms.

Keywords: youth as a social group; youth subculture; criminal subculture; destructive subculture; informal subculture; subcultural relations

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