Leisure Practices as the Factor of Socialization of the Urban and Rural Teenager’s

Abstract

The article deals with the features of the implementation of teenagers’ leisure practices in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region. The most important similarities and differences of youth’s leisure at the city and the region are analyzed. It is emphasized that among the youth of the region visiting discos, clubs, watching television, visiting church are more popular; visiting cinema is more spread among the urban. Social networking, music listening, doing nothing, meeting with friends, receiving guests are the most common forms of teenage entertainment both in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region. It is concluded that passive leisure activities dominate among both groups, that leisure practices of urban and rural teenage youth becomes unified with the advent of the Internet, the objective (leisure infrastructure, family financial status, age of teenagers) and subjective factors (values, attitudes, patterns) today no longer have a significant impact on the choice of daily practices, including leisure practices, of urban and rural adolescents as it was 10-15 years ago.