Key aspects of the value-oriented trends of today's youth

Youth is a great social group of the Russian population. The study of the dynamics of life orientations and values of young people is a fertile ground for analysis of various aspects of society and its development trends. Domestic science has accumulated rich experience of conducting empirical and theoretical researches, obtained important scientific results. The changes in society create a constant need in the course of these studies, because today''s young people are tomorrow''s active participants in all social processes. One of the important problems for future of society is the correlation between preferences given to collectivist or individualistic type of social order.