Professional orientation and its role in students’ socialization within the cultural learning environment of a higher educational institution

Introduction. The article presents a theoretical review of specific features of students’ socialization, adjusted to the contemporary conditions of multi-vector social challenges, and also assesses the impact of unregulated (creative) and strictly algorithmic professional orientation on the process of students’ socialization within the cultural learning environment of higher educational institutions. Interest in the problem of the phenomena under study is determined by recent discussions around the cultural learning environment of higher educational institutions, the specifics of its self-deployment in a rapidly and unpredictably changing social reality. The purpose of the article is to study the phenomenon of professional orientation and its role in the students’ socialization within the cultural learning environment of higher educational institutions.