ELECTORAL BEHAVIOUR OF STUDENT'S YOUTH IN ELECTORAL PROCESS OF MODERN RUSSIA

The article analyzes the phenomenon of an absenteeism of the Russian students. As empirical material results of research of electoral behavior of student's youth are used. The pluralism of the existing approaches to a problem of mental representations accentuates sociological interpretation of empirical indicators of electoral culture of students. The practical importance and novelty of work consists in development of sociological tools. Information received during empirical sociological research interprets key values at the level of social and de- mographic group of youth. The problem of the analysis of the reasons of declarative nature of electoral literacy of the Russian students is considered in the context of realities of modern Russia. The sociological tools reveal tendencies and multicomponent structure of political representations of students of the Russian province