Pungina A. et al. (2022) «Chtoby ne boltalsya»: vneshkol'naya deyatel'nost' kak mera profilaktiki deviantnogo povedeniya detey [Extracurricular activities as a preventive measure of children’s deviant behavior]. Zhurnal sotsiologii i sotsialnoy antropologii [The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology], 25(1): 132–167 (in Russian). https: ...

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Abstract

The article discusses the practices of structured and unstructured extracurricular activities and household responsibilities of children aged from 11 to 17. Empirical base of the article consists of 120 interviews with parents, children and specialists of Social Assistance Centers for Families and Children in St. Petersburg collected within the study «Social Trajectories of Children in Contemporary Russia». The theoretical basis of this article is the concept of risk and protective factors, the concept of structured and unstructured activity, the capability approach. The data analysis was carried out in the tradition of the framework analysis, aimed at identifying the similarities and differences in the extracurricular activities of children who have and those who do not have behavioral problems. The main differences were identified in the nature of the activity, support, and the level of parental control. What The main limitations of the child's abilities are lack of emotional support from adults, especially in unstructured activities, family’s financial difficulties, underdeveloped infrastructure that meets the interests of the child, prohibitions by adults or termination of activities for other reasons without offering alternatives for the child, the prevalence of household responsibilities, especially caring for younger children, in the child's extracurricular activities.