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The popular phrase that young people are not the same today cannot be attributed to senile grumbling.
Indeed, not that one. Over the past 25 years, the moral foundation of society has been greatly shaken. For example, more than half of young people consider it normal to steal or deceive others for profit.
The Center for Scientific Political Thought and Ideology recently presented a report "Dynamics of the portrait of modern Russian youth". The report is based on our own research, on polls by VTsIOM and the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The conclusions of the authors of the study were disappointing. It turned out that the younger a Russian is, the more he is ready to justify and commit crimes out of selfish motives. Almost 90% of Russians aged 18-24 put material well-being in first place among life priorities. Hence the goals. And such a concept as freedom was in 12th place.
The top ten priorities also included own housing, career development, marriage and childbirth. In other words, today's young people hardly care about transpersonal values. Every man for himself.
Fundamentally different approaches of young people to issues of morality and ethics than the older generation. More than half of those aged 18-24 are ready to overstep moral principles and norms, commit fraud or theft, if they are sure that these crimes will not be punished. At the same time, 40% of young people believe that moral norms are outdated long ago.
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Nadezhda Khvylya-Olinter, one of the authors of the report, a sociologist, an expert at the Sulakshin Center, a senior researcher at Moscow State University, believes: “We probably have no right to condemn young people for such a position. Young people see that everything is getting paid - medicine, education, the government is thinking how to cancel pensions. Grandchildren look at their grandparents and begin to understand that the state does not care about anyone, that it is necessary to rely exclusively on itself. Hence, the orientation towards consumerism, theft, fraud, an attempt at any cost to ensure the existence of oneself and one's family, even if at the same time it is necessary to cause some harm to others."
Either the Soviet person was a completely different "sharpening", or social maturity comes only with age, but, according to research, 77% of the older generation (over 60 years old) would rather remain poor, but honest.
Not so with youth. Among the surveyed Russians from 18 to 24 years old, only a third of the people are scrupulous, while 52% do not consider it shameful to cross the line. Enrichment by deceiving others is not considered immoral by 47% of young people. And - attention! - 22% of young Russians see nothing wrong with treason. And there is no need to talk about such trifles as tax evasion or bribe-giving (two-thirds of those who enter big life do not disdain this).
According to the sociologist, the results of the study impressed the scientists themselves: “It is obvious that young people are always different from older generations. But the question is, by what criteria is the greatest difference. Among today's youth, the negative is most clearly expressed - the attitude towards others according to the principle "man is a wolf".
"The experts counted as a plus for young people most often mobility, communication skills, activity, learning ability, computer literacy, technology skills, adaptability and optimism," the report says.
Adelaide Sigida