The socialization of young people in imaginary worlds
The socialization of young people in imaginary worlds

Summary/Abstract: Internet is emerging as a value-neutral medium, but receives, with applications offered over it, dimensions (imaginary or virtual) power of unimaginable proportions. The young generations, born in the era of continuous improvement of the media and the technological innovations that accompany it, are the “natives” of this age, and the older generations are “strangers- newcomers” reciprocal to the years of age. Sociology, and other social sciences and humanities, are facing the challenge of adopting new theoretical titles and its content, as compared to traditional names and contents. It refers to changing the traditional paradigm of socialization of young generations, which strongly generates the conflict of traditional (return to the tradition of the Middle Ages and even earlier) and modern (the rejection of tradition and its eye for reform, then giving new content to the traditional notions). This also applies to parenting, education and upbringing, as well as the role of society in general as traditional spatial, temporal, religious, ethnic, labor, gender and all other forms of its manifestation. Therefore, not only the present and the future are treated as virtual(imaginary), but the past is increasingly seen as virtual.

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