Youth

Determining the age limits of youth, as well as solving many problems related to “youth”, still remains the subject of scientific discussions. Famous Russian sociologist I.V. Bestuzhev-Lada writes: “The fact is that“ youth ”is not only and not so much an age concept, but a social and historical one”.
At this time, people of very different ages were assigned to this category at different times and in different layers of society. The Russian psychologist, a researcher of the ages of a person’s life pays serious attention to the broad understanding of youth, stating that young people are over 30 years old and 40 years old young poet and young director who is already preparing for the anniversary (i.e. the fiftieth anniversary).

Further, the author continues: “Often, youth is perceived by young people themselves, firstly, as a kind of“ advance payment for the future ”, secondly, as the right to make mistakes (from which, of course, no one is insured), thirdly, to thoughtlessness (and from here, as a result, on the lowered demands on oneself, on an undeveloped sense of responsibility for oneself, one’s actions, one’s life itself - it’s said that they are still young). The question arises: aren't we too wasteful with the life time allotted to us, postponing for tomorrow what time is now, here and now! ”

We believe that the youth of a person begins in his youth (in some periodizations this stage is called “late youth” - from 18 to 25 years).

This stage is also called the stage of "human proximity." The youth is open for communication: acquaintances are easily made, friendships are easily formed, love comes, families are created. The leading activity is either vocational studies, or work, or both. Thanks to these activities, young people master the norms of relations between people (business, personal, etc.), as well as vocational skills. This age is characterized as “sustainable conceptual socialization, when stable personality traits are developed,” all mental processes stabilize, a person acquires a stable character.

In his youth, a person is most capable of creative activity, the formulation of heuristic hypotheses, is the most efficient, therefore progress in various fields of scientific knowledge is largely related to the activities of young people. Young people are mastering the most complex ways of intellectual activity in the most diverse and modern fields of science and technology; in labor activity (intellectual, physical); The acquired knowledge, skills, abilities are not only realized, but also receive their further development and creative improvement (including in new areas - in the field of management, marketing, ecology, etc.).
Youth is for most young people and a student time when they have to withstand quite large loads - physical, mental, moral, strong-willed. Far from all of them at first know how to count their own forces, rationally organize their work. The impact of the entire restructuring of life, life, students' activities. Therefore, it is very important, especially at junior courses, the organization of systematic monitoring of their educational activities, the conduct of individual consultations, the work of curators, etc. Adjustable intellectual load (rather than immense overload), carried out at a high, but affordable for the student level, is the most important condition for increasing self-organization and activity of students.