YOUTH SUBCULTURES AND INFORMAL COMMUNITIES IN THE SPHERE OF SOCIAL CONTACT AND COMMUNICATION WITH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

This article proves that the non-formal youth communities, which frequently take the form of youth subcultures and function as organizations, associations and movements, have become the influential subjects of the contemporary processes of socialization and upbringing. The urgency of the work is caused by the need for the public practice optimization of networks cooperation among educational organizations and non-formal youth communities. It is proved that the social-pedagogical conditions for such networks interaction cannot be revealed without the complex characteristics of the typologically special features authentic to such communities. The typology developed by the author is therefore given to find out their socializing potential and minimize the social-pedagogical risks of contact and cooperation with them for the educational organizations.