Institutional and personal factors and risks of higher school socialization (based on the sociological research)

The article analyses the research data in order to define the degree of correlation between the goals of a person and a social institution of education in the implementation of socialization process. It is shown that there are socialization risks of both institutional and personal levels. The authors consider the showings of the socialization process, which without administrative influence may lead to undesirable consequences for not only certain categories of students, but also for the higher education system, since the purposes and functions of the system may stay unfulfilled.