THE SUBCULTURAL CONCEPT OF PRIMARY SOCIALIZATION OF CHILD IN FAMILY

The paper proposes a definition of family subculture, it reveals its essence and content as a concept, identifies current trends of its development. The author offers possible approaches and aspects of scientific analysis of family subculture as a social and educational phenomenon. Family subculture manifests itself in family lifestyle, co-existence of cultural forms ? those of parents and of children, which may change when children grow older. Moreover, these forms are determined by urgent needs of children in their development, parents’ adequate response to them, changes in their own value orientations, also by intensive development of cultural and leisure areas of society and innovative technologies, including informational ones. Consequently, family subculture is a complex educational system with dynamic parameters that includes cognitive, aesthetic, spiritual, ecological constructions and numerous social ties. There may be different levels of it. Family subculture is formed due to the multicultural nature of family environment, integration of subcultures of children and parents, their complementarity and mutual determination.