Yaishnikov A.Yu. Vulnerability as a risk factor of socialization of the higher school. Sociodynamics. 2016. № 11. С.61-68.

Abstract

The subject of this research is the students’ assessment of their own vulnerability as an intrinsic characteristic of the institutional and personal risks of socialization in the higher educational facility. The author, based on his original approach towards examination of socialization in the higher school, thoroughly reviews the highlighted from the perspective of personal vulnerability characteristics among the groups of students. The goal of this research consists in verification of hypothesis regarding the presence of interconnection between the evaluation of personal vulnerability and indexes that describe the socialization process in the higher educational institution. The author conduct the analysis of students’ survey by the criterion of subjective assessment of the present and future, as well as similarities and differences of these groups based on the socio-demographic and personal indexes. The analysis affirmatively demonstrated the existence of correlation between the self-evaluations of vulnerability and the entire number of indexes of success of the higher school socialization process, as well as confirmed the presence of institutional and personal risks within the structure of socialization context of the studentship. This data can be implemented in formulation of measures pertaining to the lowering of the level of student’s vulnerability during the socialization process in the higher educational institution, which will allow lowering the institutional risks of organization of education process.