ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the model for resolving conflicts between young people and society is changing under the conditions of a risk society and how risk is transforming the process of youth integration. The problem of the localization of risk amongst youth is closely linked to the possibility of resolving specific youth conflicts. In resolving conflict by means of integration, society stabilizes the situation, reduces risk and manages to localize it. In turn the localization of risk means that the field for new social conflicts is narrowed. The large majority of social scientists would concur that most modern societies are experiencing globalization. For more than a decade Russian society has been experiencing the second round of destruction of its normative consciousness, namely the eradication of social norms. The impact of different internal factors has become concentrated in young people's value orientations.
