DEMOGRAPHIC IDENTIFICATION OF YOUTH: TOWARD A PROBLEM STATEMENT
The purpose of the study is to determine the conceptual guidelines for studying the phenomenon of a young family through the process of identifying young people with important demographic events and embedding them in their life trajectories of creating a family and having children. Methodological base. The authors adhere to the modern socio-demographic approach to the study of demographic identification of young people. The methodology is based on the fundamental works of the scientific school of the Center for Family and Demography of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, which develops the socio-demographic direction. In the study of modern sociological research of youth, significant theoretical approaches were analyzed by scientists of the ISPI of the FNSC RAS, scientists of the Institute of Demographic Research of the FNSC RAS, economic demographers of the Vologda Scientific Center of the RAS, Kazan scientists. The results of the study. Within the framework of the article, through the analysis of the demographic situation in Russia, international and federal regulatory documents, public opinion polls and sociological research, the relevance of the introduction of the new term is considered - «demographic self-identification of youth», the author's definition of the concept is developed, conclusions are drawn that this process includes both legislatively fixed norms (state programs, National projects, etc.) that stimulate the activity of demographic behavior of boys and girls, and demographic self-identification of young men and women, reflecting the intentions of creating a family and having children outside the context of state demographic policy, formed by their own life trajectories. In addition, the need for further understanding and institutionalization of the term in science was identified, promising areas for its research were identified. The prospects of the research. In the scientific search and crystallization of the terms of demographic identification and self-identification of young people. At the same time, further research is associated with the study of contradictions in the identification of a young family, when, on the one hand, in public perception, this phenomenon is also associated with the duration of the marriage union (couples who have registered relations with the registry office are newlyweds at the time of marriage, regardless of age of the bride and groom), on the other hand, the socio-demographic burden on the concept of «young family» is due exclusively to the age of the spouses, not exceeding 35 years.