The role of social institutions in shaping the public consciousness of youth in contemporary Uzbekistan
Abstract
The article analyzes the role of key social institutions in shaping the public consciousness of youth under the conditions of contemporary transformation in Uzbekistan. The initial methodological premise is an understanding of youth public consciousness as a dynamic system of values, norms, attitudes, and models for interpreting social reality, which is reproduced and transformed through institutional mechanisms of socialization. The empirical and documentary basis of the study consists of update statistical data on the youth population and the infrastructure of socialization, as well as an analysis of the regulatory and legal frameworks of youth policy and international approaches to the protection of minors and the development of media literacy in the digital environment. It is shown that in the Uzbek context, the institutional configuration of socialization is characterized by the complementarity of traditional institutions (family, local community) and modernized institutions (education, state youth policy, digital platforms). At the same time, the intensification of digital communication requires not so much a juxtaposition of «online» and «offline» environments as the coordination of their regulatory and educational functions. International experience of the European Union and the United Kingdom in the field of platform responsibility for child safety, as well as the practices of UNESCO and Finland in media literacy, are interpreted as evidence of the effectiveness of comprehensive models that combine regulation, prevention, and educational strategies. The article concludes that developing an institutional linkage of «family — school — community — digital environment» is expedient as a basis for the sustainable formation of youth value orientations in conditions of accelerated information dynamics.