Abstract:

The political culture of youth is a guarantee of the development of society and the state. Political culture includes political knowledge, patterns of behavior and actions of political actors, as well as characteristics of the state itself. It is important to understand that the political culture is how citizens evaluate and interpret the political situation in the country, what assessment they give to one or another political process.The purpose of this article is to study and evaluate the development of the political culture of high school students in Tomsk, to identify the "weaknesses" in its development.

Keywords: political culture, value orientations of high school students, political literacy