Youth in the City: Behavior in the Extreme Case

Youth in the city causes one of the social problems connected with cultural, social and psychological environment of megalopolis. Students as social marginal group are the symbiosis of different types of culture, different types of social behavior. An empirical study is performed to reveal an attitude of students towards the behavior in the extreme case. The method of research is the panel survey of 613 students of Perm State Technical University (PNRPU) in 1996 and 1242 in 2010. This research is enabled to reveal: 1) character of fear as a parameter of students’ social feeling; 2) reasons of sense of exposure and fear; 3) factors influencing the appearance of sense of exposure; 4) extreme case as a social phenomenon in the city atmosphere; 5) students’ relation to the personal safety.