Mentoring as resource for the formation of social adaptation practices (using the example of nature-saving behavior)

The author of the article believes that the mentoring is one of the ways of transferring social experience within the boundaries of the adaptation concept. Also the mentoring acts as a resource for the process of entering the space of social and professional relations. The problem for scientific sociological analysis is the identification of the presence and characteristics of environmental practices of mentor subjects (parents and teachers) and those to whom the mentoring process should be oriented. The empirical basis for the analysis is the data of a representative sociological survey of the population of Russia from a long-term monitoring research project. The data show that teenagers use environmental practices in their everyday life, focusing on family experience to a greater extent than on the mentors- teachers experience. The reason for the low effectiveness of mentoring in the direction of developing practices of conscious environmental behavior is the fact that these practicesare not implemented by the mentor teachers themselves. The situation with environmental practices reflects the general situation with the mentoring influence on the formation of adaptation practices to the social environment. And this is due to the specificity of the social empathy of the mentors themselves.

social experience, concept of adaptation, mentoring, adaptability, social practices, nature- and health- saving behavior