Features of valuable orientations of student youth in respect to family, homeland and modern society

The paper presents the results of the research on the perception of the family, homeland, relation to saving family and country's history problem, public activity of junior students, conducted on the basis of the Siberian University of Consumer Cooperation (Novosibirsk) in October-November, 2019. The studies have shown the duality of students' attitude to the problem of traditions saving: on the one hand, the majority is interested in family history and aware of the necessity to transfer family traditions to new generations, on the other hand, the need to save their country's history is not enough realized. Most students have a looser understanding of the family, but with regard to the transformation of the family institution, the share of traditionalists is growing. In matters of preserving their history, there are more respondents who defend traditional values than in relation to the institution of family and marriage.