The Difficult World of Growing Up a Modern Teenager
The article is dedicated to the review of recent publications concerning today's social situation of contemporary adolescents' adulting. The analysis is based on works focused on contemporary Russian teenagers and youngsters research. Main points are the following: 1) characteristics of school and family as basic institutions of socialization; 2) youth' destructive behavior involvement, namely aggression and school bullying; 3) social perception and values of contemporary adolescents: images of family, parents and other relevant social groups.