Irsetskaya, E.A., Kitaitseva, O.V. (2024), “Political views of student youth as the basis for participation in various forms of civic activity”, RSUH ... Irsetskaya, E.A., Kitaitseva, O.V. (2024), “Political views of student youth as the basis for participation in various forms of civic activity”, RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. “Philosophy. Sociology. Art Studies” Series, no. 4, pp. 115–125, DOI: 10.28995/2073-6401-2024-4-115-125ISSN 2073-6401DOI 10.28995/2073-6401-2024-4-115-125РИНЦ: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=80346543Posted on site: 27.03.25Текст статьи/выпуска на сайте журнала URL: https://rsuh.ru/upload/main/vestnik/fsi/Vestnik_fsi_4(2024).pdf (дата обращения 27.03.2025)AbstractThe article contains a rationale for the relevance of addressing the topic of participation of modern Russian student youth in the socio-political life of society. It is noted that today the issue of ensuring the participation of student youth in the political life of the country is one of the significant tasks within which the efforts of public administration should be applied. Participation in social and political initiatives opens up great opportunities for young people to discuss and influence the adoption of significant political and management decisions regarding pressing issues on the agenda. The authors study the involvement of students in various forms of civic activity through which their effective participation in political processes is possible. The political preferences of young people, as the most active and progressively thinking social group, determine the vectors of their civic activity, which in turn shapes the features and directions of the formation of a modern rule of law state and civil society. It is concluded that the most popular ideological guidelines for young people in matters of the socio-political structure of the state are democratic and social-democratic ideological views. The authors also noted a trend of increasing youth involvement in such a form of civic activity as elections