Anticipation of the life perspective of youth in the context of the notional dimention of modernity

Abstract

The article analyzes the semantic dimension of modernity in the processes of sociality. It is shown how the change of meanings occurred as the main condition for the transformation of modernity, revealed the main directions of criticism of the Modernist project, analyzed the discourse of "modernity" from the point of view of the synergistic approach. The analysis of the problem of life prospects of the individual is carried out. It is established that the important role in the realization of desires and defining the life path of the individual is played by anticipation, that is the creation of a mental model of the future life scenario. The contents of such concepts as "life path", "life strategy", "life perspective" are revealed. A life perspective emerges as a holistic picture of the future, a potential opportunity for development, which is formed in the interconnection of expected and planned events in the unity of value-meaningful, motivational and organizational and activity aspects. In the course of the research, students' perceptions of life prospects and the values that determine the activity of youth in today's "knowledge society" were analyzed. It is established that the social world, which exists in the form of information civilization and has high rates of change, offers modern people many opportunities and variability of choosing their own life scenario, and therefore the anticipation of life strategy can take different directions.