Leskova I.V., Yudina T.N., Kiseleva E.E., Ushakov A.A. [Subculture and socialization: changing behaviors in a digital society] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2020, Vol. 11, No. 2. Available at: https: ...

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Abstract

This research attempts to explain the individual behavior on the Internet through the theory of needs and stimulus lens with an actual explanation of Internet popularity growth and its perspectives. Also, the phenomenon of double or parallel socialization and the personal development process that happens due to taking part in a digital society are explained. The author considers Internet networks to be not only an informational and news channel but as the most powerful tool with its language, culture, values, users’ behavior patterns and other attributes capable to replace real-life presented as a separate, isolated digital environment. The research positions the Internet and social networks as an integral part of the individual’s socialization. Such a statement allows them to be qualified as a separate culture. In this very respect, specific human behavior patterns were considered. Moreover several WCIOM social kinds of research made it possible for the author to claim that the digital environment itself, as well as the individual participation in it, is not imposed. On the contrary, the Internet is a logically natural element of everyone’s life in the process of their personal growth. An in-depth analysis that followed allowed the author to conclude that an additional stimulus that causes individual Internet behavior studies and deep learning of accompanying behavior patterns altogether will allow us to develop not only «correct» training programs able to increase individual socialization process, but also to supplement them with effective younger generation education process if Internet technologies are involved.