Youth and Socio-Cultural Values: Contemporary Trends and Transformations

The article considers aspects of socio-philosophical analysis of the views and values of youth. Youth as a social group is studied as a barometer that determines the index of development of societies. The relevance of the topic of the article is the study of youth as a subject of social transformations and an object of state policy. Youth is a subject of creative activity, possessing unique values in the context of the values of the new generation. The article uses methods of comparative analysis of changes in the social behaviour of young people with the results of social research. The role of youth in the formation of wok culture, types of modern youth trends is considered. It has been established that youth trends in modern Kazakhstan society and perceptions in the worldview of young people in the countries of Eastern Europe have two characters. The problem of state policy in youth issues, public opinion of the contingent of NEET-youth who do not want to interfere in any socio-political processes has been studied. According to the anthropological approach, youth as a new generation, a social individual is an empirical subject. This means that young people, although characterised by the search for new values in reproductive continuity, due to weak social practices, introduce ready-made forms of thinking with a consumerist approach. Therefore, the public mood of young people is characterised by positivity and most of them are characterised by skills of inability to construct knowledge, values, transcendental forms.