Socio-psychological and personal indicators of extremist activity of representatives of the «near-football» movement

Abstract

Socially approved vector of energy direction of young generation is one of the most important tasks of the state. Attention to formation of young citizens’ worldview involves socio-psychological analysis of numerous factors determining their attitude to themselves, the people around them and society as a whole. The well-timed recognition and prevention of the destructive transformation of natural forms of deviant behavior inherent in teenage and adolescent age is a condition of personal and social well-being. The article is devoted to the study of socio-psychological and personal markers of extremist activity of representatives of the near-football movement. The author solves the research tasks related to the identification and system analysis of factors-indicators that make it possible to characterise extremism as a social and legal-psychological phenomenon; the individual-psychological analysis of the extremist personality in the context of a certain type of his activity - the near-football movement; the definition of the attitude of young generation representatives to the football fans movement, their activity and world view; the identification of optimal social-psychological and organisational-legal ways of counteracting this type of extremist activity. The results of a sociological survey are presented; they give the opportunity to determine the level of sympathy and antipathy of young people to this subcultural phenomenon and also suggest the possibility of transferring the age opposition of teenagers and young people into the criminal sphere through emotional immersion into the ideology and activities of the near-football movement.