The younger generation and modernization

History shows that at any stage of civilization development modernization means qualitative changes in not only industrial and technological component, but also in the value structure, institutional area, and people’s quality of live. Socio-cultural modernization is a complex process which works with the youth as a population group, since the youth first experiences the transformation of attitudes, interests, values and culture. Life priorities of the young generation, moral health and its image in general determine social development and the future of the country; that is why the relations between the youth and the state are relevant for the functioning of the latter. The younger generation, being a strategic modernization resource must be both demographically and intellectually protected by the state. Children and young people are not only social actors with full rights, but also creators of the future society responsible for the country’s prosperity and reproduction of future generations; as well as the successors of the culture...