THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH SOCIAL ACTIVITY IN THE SYSTEM OF VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Abstract

The subject of the article is to identify opportunities for the development of social activity of young people in the system of volunteer activities. The article aims to have a comparative analysis of the Orel region from other constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal district on the basis of quantitative indicators, the Unified information system "Volunteer of Russia" on the number of volunteers, number of organizations and number of events registered in the system to form clusters of regions of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District according to the considered indicators. The author proposes to develop the social activity of young people in the system of volunteering, based on such principles as voluntariness, gratuitousness, respect, responsibility for their work, self-improvement, morality, and the capabilities of the Unified Information System “Volunteers of Russia”. The study allowed the author to divide the subjects of the Russian Federation of the Central Federal District by the number of volunteers, the number of organizations and the number of events registered in the system into three clusters: the subjects are the leaders in the development of volunteer activities; "golden middle"; lagging subjects on the development of volunteer activities. The results obtained in the course of the study can be used in the implementation of the state youth policy in the regions.