Youth Entrepreneurship: Social Practices and Risks

The article is devoted to the study of problems and prospects for the development of youth entrepreneurship. The purpose of the publication is as follows: on the basis of the results of the sociological study to analyze the features of the development of youth entrepreneurship in modern Russia. Consideration of the problems of youth entrepreneurship is associated primarily with transformation processes that are becoming more active in modern Russia and other countries of the world. The data from the sociological study are used with application of survey methods and expert interviews in three Russian cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg and Bryansk. The following document analysis techniques are used: traditional (primary) analysis of documents, as well as secondary, comparative analysis. Practically, when working on this project, specialized methods of visual analysis were tested, on the basis of which the sociological portrait of a young entrepreneur was built in social networks.