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CULTURE OF CONSUMPTION MODERN STUDENTS IN RUSSIA
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In article is presented an analysis of the peculiarities of the consciousness and behavior of the student youth in the consumer sphere is presented. Based on a sociological investigation, the models of typical consumer practices of Sverdlovsk region students are outlined. Russia experienced a change of type of culture, value orientations in the XXI century. Formation of market relations contributes to formation of a market-oriented personality type. The concept is based on a relation to consumption as to a terminal or instrumental value. The question about the meaning of life is not just a final question about life and death, destiny of a person, but it is also a situational question. After all, the whole human life consists of a set of various actions that are integrated into manifold social situations, contradictions, conflicts, different forms of communication, etc. During the whole life an individual achieves his/her goals, which are specified in objectives. Sociology of culture considers consumption to be a sphere of socialization, formation of worldview.
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