Pre-conditions of mastering of social norms by young people with the special necessities

• Main Author: N. M. Gordienko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Publishing House "Grani" 2014-03-01
• Series: Granì
• Subjects: соціальні норми; освітнє середовище; соціальна відповідальність; соціальна взаємність; соціальна мобільність; референтна група
• Online Access: https://grani.org.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/492

The article grounds the relevance of the theme: it shows the importance for the youth with disabilities of timely mastering of social norms as a basis for successful socialization. The understanding of social norms by children and young people with disabilities depends on the availability of objective conditions. The topicality of the theme is that in the modern conditions of the Ukrainian society development the most important is from the very childhood to devote oneself to socialization of the members of such a complicated society, to master the main norms and rules recognized by the community. It is necessary to start this process from the investigation of the objective premises for any category of children and youth. Hence the purpose of this article is the isolation of the most essential premises of the mastering of the social norms by the children and youth with disabilities and arguments their values, necessity of the taking into account the named category of children and youth while planning the content of vital activity, that would help to master successfully the necessary social norms, to follow them and to improve social surrounding,that they are included in. It is analyzed the approaches of the scientists as to essence of the social norms, importance of their mastering from the point of view of the socialization of a person.  On the basis of this it is fixed that social norms give the exhaustive characteristics,  prove their influence on the socialization of a person, but don’t isolate the premises, that assist or decelerate this process. We give prominence to the following premises: the family, educational environment, that ensures the certain level of the social responsibility, social mutuality, social mobility; the efficacy of the equal rights of the invalids with the rights of healthy members of society; the existence of the analyst group and grounded the expediency of their taking into account in this process. The family, as the social institution, plays the important role in the children’s development and in the mastering  of these social norms.