The article is devoted to theorizing notions, meaningful for creation of the optimal model of the youth socialization in the transitive period of the Russian society. The resemblance and differences of the process, aimed at the human development, are substantiated and the
Social memory is a set of knowledge serving as an object of conscious transfer from one generation to another. Its also fixed in the fundamental cultural texts. Study of these texts is a major term of the socialization of an individual in a certain cultural group. Social groups are the mediums of cultural memory, since the processes of communication among the members of the groups act as the constant indicators of the relevance of the information circulating in the society.
