JAUNIMO SOCIOKULTŪRINĖS VEIKLOS ORGANIZAVIMAS KAIMO BENDRUOMENĖSE

Abstract

SUMMARY Renata GAIŠAITĖ ORGANIZATION OF YOUTH SOCIO-CULTURAL ACTIVITY IN RURAL COMMUNITIES Final project of Master’s studies written in Lithuanian language consists of 69 pages, 23 pictures, 13 tables, 56 sources of literature and 5 enclosures. KEYWORDS: youth, organization of socio-cultural activity, rural community, social problem, social assistance, social integration. Object of research – youth socio-cultural activity in rural communities. Objective of study – to analyze the organization of youth socio-cultural activity in rural communities and to present a model of youth’ socio-cultural activity organization in rural communities. The main tasks are: 1. To traverse theoretical aspects of youth socio-cultural activity organization in rural communities. 2. To present youth’, as a social group, characteristics that has its peculiar problematic aspects. 3. To analyze the survey data results of experts’ and youth’ sociological research. 4. To do a comparable analysis of survey results of experts and rural youth. 5. To present a model of youth socio-cultural activity organization in rural communities. Methods of research are: logical analysis and synthesis, comparable analysis, data analysis of nonfiction and statistics, half standardized interview of experts, youth’ questionnaire survey data analysis, graphic presentment and generalization. While studying the scientific works of Lithuanian and foreign authors, Laws of Lithuanian Republic, the theoretical aspects of youth socio-cultural activity organization in rural communities are identified and described in this study. Having done a sociological research of experts’ and youth’, a model of youth socio-cultural activity organization is being presented. This model could help us to find a solution to the problems, that youth has, subsequently, to help them integrate into the society.