TY  - JOUR
TI  - The State for Youth or Youth for the State: Discourses of Youth Policy in the EU and Russia
T2  - The Russian Sociological Review
IS  - The Russian Sociological Review
KW  - youth policy
KW  - youth
KW  - political authorities
KW  - rhetoric
KW  - discourse
KW  - constructionism
KW  - patriotism
KW  - traditionalism
AB  - The article is focused on youth politics in the UK, Germany, Finland, and Russia. Based on a constructionist approach, we analyze the rhetoric of youth policy, subjects of problematization, as well as the image of the country and youth of the future presented in the documents. The empirical base of the article is 21 youth-policy documents (laws, state programs, and youth strategies) of Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Russia. The analysis of normative documents showed that the discourse of youth policies in the European Union is dominated by the rhetoric of entitlement, and the motifs are equality of opportunity and access, rights, independence, empowerment, sustainable development of society, participation, and citizenship. The discourse of Russian youth policy is distinguished by the rhetoric idiom of ‘unreason’. The main motifs of the rhetoric are traditional values, education, and patriotism. European youth-policies, which emphasize rights and opportunities of youth, are oriented toward the development and support of young people, while the Russian youth policy is "state-centric", oriented to the development of the country.
AU  - Alina Mayboroda
AU  - Anastasia Sablina
AU  - Iskender Yasaveev
UR  - https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2021-20-3/510751657.html
PY  - 2021
SP  - 71-97
VL  - 20