The Correlation of Young People's Aspirations and Life Strategies with Their Relationship to Social Reforms

Today's 16- and 17-year-old young men and women are living in a time of rapid social changes that define the economic, political, and cultural "framework" of their future lives. For this reason, they can hardly fail to correlate their own aspirations and life strategies with the principal factor that determines their future in society, namely the political, economic, and cultural reforms going on in Russia and Ukraine. This accounts for the timely usefulness of comparing the characteristics of the life prospects of young men and women with their attitudes toward the reforms. The comparison was based on materials from the survey conducted in 1995 in Orel, Moscow, Mtsensk, and Kiev.