Scientific journal
European Student Scientific Journal
ISSN 2310-3094
ISSN 2310-3094
THE SOCIO-CULTURAL AND SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF THE ATTITUDE TO POSSESSION OF MANY CHILDREN
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The article is the result of the research of the determinants of young people´s attitude to possession of many children. Research was carried out by using theoretical (analysis and synthesis) and empirical methods (questionnaire, interview, opinion poll). A theoretical analysis of the problem has shown, that large families in a modern Russian society are fairly often perceived as unsuccessful. These stereotypes are embedded in today´s young people´s mind, it doesn´t assist in improving the social status of large families and in overcoming of a crisis demographic situation in the country. In March-April 2013 the empirical sociological research was carried out to confirm this hypothesis, the object of the research was students of the PSU named for V.G. Belinskii (Penza city) in the age range from 18 to 22 years. The sample size was 150 persons. The determinants of young people´s attitude to possession of many children and their reproductive plans have been divided into three groups: socio-economic (housing and financial problems), socio-cultural (moral and religious values and norms), and socio-psychological (individualistic motives). According to the research socio-economic factors of the possession of few children are considered by many respondents as the most obvious for modern Russia and at the same time the root cause for refusal from the possession of few children, as a rule, has the socio-psychological and socio-cultural character. It has confirmed the offered hypothesis. Data of questionnaire, interview and opinion poll makes it possible to say that the young people as a whole positively attitude to large families, but don´t aspire to the possession of many children. The social status of a large family as a whole is low: large families in our country are considered as a social factor of risk and therefore belonging to this group causes the certain alienation. Consequently, it´s necessary to pursue well thought-out systematic state policy which has been directed both to social and economic support of a large family, and to its socially-psychological well-being in modern socio-cultural conditions.
large families
birth rate
young people´s attitude
status
values
norms
social stereotypes