Morozova O. Peculiarities of youth's political culture formation in conditions of Globalization

The author presents the complex political analysis of political culture and especially its youth aspects. She highlighted the sense of political culture phenomenon, defined and analyzed the role of its components such as political consciousness and political behavior. She revealed the peculiarities of youth's political culture and main factors of its formation. The special attention given to the investigation of the processes of political socialization of younger generation in Ukraine and abroad. Theoretical aspects of the characteristics of youth as social category and the carrier of specific type of political culture are analyzed. The author investigates the main characteristics of youth that, from one side, create the possibility to detach it to the separate social group, and from the other side, determinate its political culture. The special place in the work given to the analysis of the globalist discourse, definition of main characteristics of the globalization phenomenon and instruments of its expansion. The author structured the main ways of the globalization understanding in cognitive and emotional aspects. The thesis presents the list of the main instruments of globalized ("goal-oriented") political culture formation and defines its general characteristics and ways of its genesis.