The Student Youth as a Subject of Risk Society: Youth as a Risk & Youth Risks

Abstract

This article analyzes the essential features of students as the subject of the risk society. Based on research of postsoviet and foreign surveys of youth, the author identifies two dominant methodological approaches - youth-pessimists and youth-realists in studies of young people depending on vision of their social development. The article highlights the approach to the "studentship" as a necessary phase of contemporary youth biography in the society of knowledge. The conclusions of the study provide the necessity of studying risks in different spheres of youth daily routine and the attempt to rethink the concept of social subjectiveness (particularly of young people) in terms of risk society is underpinned.