PEDAGOGICAL INFLUENCES IN SPORTS INFORMAL GROUPS AS A METHOD OF SOCIALIZATION OF YOUTH

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of pedagogical influences in sports informal groups as a method of socialization of youth. The growth of the importance of informal groups has shown their prominent role as the conditions for socialization of the individual, as a result of which they became the object of special study. We consider the informal group as an organization characterized by a high degree of cohesion, a personal character of communication, an unclear purpose of group activity and informal control, which is based on traditions and depends on the degree of awareness of group membership. Nevertheless, informal youth associations of football fans in Ukraine are gradually beginning to occupy a prominent position among other informal groups.

Informal groups form an unlawful criminal behavior. This is facilitated by permissiveness in these groups, the desire to be older and independent of their parents. Often, the "effect of a group" absorbs a person; it loses its personality, makes illegal acts, being "infected" by the fact that others do it. It is possible to help them only by creating a different communication environment where the teenager would not cross with his former friends.

At the present stage of development of our society, there are a large number of informal youth associations and groups of diverse backgrounds that operate both in our country and in other countries of the world. Among them, more and more popular are informal groups of sports (including football) fans.