Samchuk T. Students’ subculture of St. Vladimir University (1834-1863).

Traditionally students were differed by their active life position and played a prominent role in public life. Very often students are characterized as young intelligentsia, the future social and intellectual elite, on the other hand, they attach to the stereotype of brawlers, who are opposed to the burghers. In general, students have an unstable social status, and a period of study is a transitional form from youth to adulthood. Usually, in the period of studenthood, there is a final formation of outlook, set of values, lifestyle. Student years are a period of transit identity for young people that clearly separates from further or earlier stages of life. Despite a short period of student life (usually a few years), students learn to form their own customs, traditions and specific patterns of behavior, the origins of which can be explained by learning about student communities from the past. During the last years, we had many changes and transformations of Ukrainian society, that’s why an important research task is to study the peculiarities of the material and intangible culture of students. Research on various aspects of the history of students’ communities can provide useful material to address the challenges of today. Considering the importance of covering the history of the students’ as a separated social group, the Ph.D. thesis is devoted to the study of the student community of St. Vladimir University in the years 1834-1863. Throughout this period the community had a number of specific features, which makes it possible to confirm the existence of a separate student subculture of St. Vladimir University Based on theoretical works, we define the student subculture as an autonomous formation in a dominant culture, characterized by its own customs, norms, systems of values, which shapes and determines the lifestyle and way of thinking of its carriers. One of the key features of a subculture is self-identification and its awareness of its own difference from the other social groups. The general characteristic of any subculture combines the material (clothing, food, etc.) and the ntangible sphere (values, ideals, etc.).