Russian youth subcultural reality: territory of countercultural fluidity

the study provides a detailed description of the unique characteristics of youth subcultural communities that reflect the latest socio-cultural transformations. The key parameters that determine the substantive features of informal youth associations are analyzed: their value orientations, methods of self-identification, communication strategies, and intra-group norms of interaction. Particular attention is paid to identifying latent mechanisms for the formation of youth subcultural practices in the context of modern social changes, revealing their deep semantic and structural dynamics. The phenomenon of fluidity is a fundamentally new type of youth self-organization, where classical hierarchical structures are replaced by horizontal network interactions. The study captures a fundamentally new socio-cultural landscape of Russian youth reality. The study allowed us to comprehensively present the modern youth subcultural landscape as a multi-layered, mobile system of social interactions and cultural codes. In conclusion, it is noted that the youth subculture of Russia is a complex socio-cultural phenomenon that emerged as an alternative form of self-organization and self-expression. Russian youth subculture functions as a kind of adaptation strategy, a compensatory mechanism for groups experiencing systemic status deficiencies.

social institutions, youth, subculture, socio-cultural landscape, counterculture