Youth communication: sociocultural features expectations

Abstract

The social expectations of young people are presented in correlation with the meanings of communication and socio-cultural characteristics that have age, gender and educational characteristics. The conducted three-dimensional analysis allows us to analyze changes in the communicative expectations of young people. The dominance of the terminal meanings of communication over the instrumental ones, which are based on basic life socio-cultural values, formed by the historically traditional way of common collective life, is revealed. A stable group of expectations is singled out, formed by the background semantic contexts of traditional culture. Differences of a situational nature are expressed in group expectations. In age groups, expectations of attention and understanding are highly significant and the level of expectations decreases with age. Expectations for like-mindedness and relationship retention increase with age. In gender groups, there are both expectations that coincide in men and women, and partially overlapping: the need for attention and understanding, trust is typical for men who share the terminal meanings of communication, in such a group of women, expectations of attention and understanding, like-mindedness and maintaining relationships are important. Contradictory trends in expectations are observed in groups of different levels of education: the expectation of unanimity increases with an increase in the level of education, the expectation of trust decreases with an increase in the level of education for all meanings. It is concluded that there are differences in the structure of expectations in different socio-demographic youth groups, which is due to changes in the socio-cultural parameters of communication. These are growing up, an increase in the level of education, gender traditions against a common semantic socio-cultural rather traditional background.