The Potential of Modern Youth: Professional Guidelines, Personal Transformations, Traditionalism and Innovation

Youth as an object of study is included in the area of scientific interests of sociologists, psychologists, educa-tors, demographers, and economists. In-depth topical studies of youth issues affect various aspects of the life of this social-demographic group. The potential of youth is considered in terms of its labor and career pro-spects, creative or destructive functions, socio-cultural role in modern society, value orientations, dynamics of needs and targets. The formation of a comprehensive model of the potential opportunities of modern Russian youth in a multifaceted and multifactorial context is an effective direction of a comprehensive examination of the problems that contribute to or hinder the successful realization of youth in modern socio-economic realities and against the background of spiritual and moral transformations, both professionally and personally. The information base of the analysis was scientific works on the specified topic, official statistics data, legislative and administrative documents regulating youth policy; the results of sociological surveys. The article draws attention to a number of negative trends recorded in such aspects of youth life as: educational trajectories, pro-fessional guidelines, dynamic changes in value preferences, including family ones; spiritual, moral and na-tional cultural attitudes; health indicators; personal and psychological transformations.