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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Социология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2272</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8897</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumamba</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">48126</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-4-809-821</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">KCDJUM</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Sociological lectures</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Социологический лекторий</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">NEET-Youth: Interdisciplinary research</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>NEET-молодежь: опыт междисциплинарных исследований</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Bulanova</surname><given-names>M. B.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Буланова</surname><given-names>Марина Борисовна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru">доктор социологических наук, главный научный сотрудник</bio><email>marina_bulanova@inbox.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Sociology of FCTAS RAS</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт социологии ФНИСЦ РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-12-25" publication-format="electronic"><day>25</day><month>12</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>25</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 25, NO4 (2025)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 25, №4 (2025)</issue-title><fpage>809</fpage><lpage>821</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-01-19"><day>19</day><month>01</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Bulanova M.B.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Буланова М.Б.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Bulanova M.B.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Буланова М.Б.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/48126">https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/48126</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article continues a series of articles on the NEET youth published in the journal in 2020-2022. The article aims at summarizing the results of scientific research on NEETs and identifying new trends in the study of this special group, whose representatives are poorly integrated into society because they do not work, do not receive an education, and do not care about developing their personal qualities. The author selected forty-five scientific articles on NEET issues in different countries and regions, published on the ResearchGate platform in 2022-2025, and information on hikikomori in the academic databases Scopus and Web of Science for 2021-2025. The articles were sorted according to their headings: typology and nature of NEETs; hikikomori as a specific identity of NEETs; factors of the NEET group growth; search for new approaches to study the NEET youth. The author identified the following new trends: recognition of the need for interdisciplinary research on the NEET youth (by sociologists, psychologists, economists, psychiatrists and biologists); clarification of the typology of NEET by studying its heterogeneous strata; identification of the youth with the NEET group; spread of the hikikomori phenomenon beyond Japan; deepening understanding of the biological roots of NEET (discovery of hikikomori biomarkers); expansion of the NEET group beyond the age limits of the youth (adult NEETs); study of NEET problems in relation to social disintegration and isolation. The article concludes with issues for further research and the author’s position that a unified concept of the NEET youth is possible if such unifying features as a dependent mindset and a consumer attitude toward society are recognized.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Статья продолжает цикл материалов о NEET-молодежи, размещенных на страницах журнала в 2020-2022 годы. Цель статьи - обобщить результаты актуальных научных исследований NEET и определить новые тенденции в изучении этой особой группы, представители которой слабо интегрированы в жизнь общества, поскольку не работают, не получают образования и не заботятся о развитии личностных качеств. Для анализа были отобраны 45 научных статей по проблемам NEET в разных странах и регионах мира, размещенные на исследовательской платформе ResearchGate за период 2022-2025, отдельно изучалась информация о хикикомори в академических базах данных Scopus и Web of Science за 2021-2025 годы. Статьи были рассортированы по критерию соответствия выделенным автором рубрикам: типология и природа NEET; хикикомори - специфическая идентичность NEET; факторы пополнения группы NEET; поиски новых подходов к работе с NEETмолодежью. В результате были определены следующие новые тенденции: признание необходимости междисциплинарных исследований NEET-молодежи (объединения социологов, психологов, экономистов, психиатров и биологов); уточнение типологии NEET за счет изучения разнородных слоев, входящих в ее состав; идентификация молодежи с группой NEET; распространение феномена хикикомори за пределы Японии; углубление представления о биологических корнях NEET (открытие биомаркеров хикикомори); выход группы NEET за возрастные рамки молодежи (взрослые NEET); изучение проблем NEET во взаимосвязи с процессами дезинтеграции и социальной изоляции. В заключение намечены тематики дальнейших исследований и обоснована авторская позиция, согласно которой разработка единой концепции NEET-молодежи возможна в случае признания таких ее объединяющих признаков, как иждивенческая установка и потребительское отношение к обществу.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>youth</kwd><kwd>NEET youth</kwd><kwd>hikikomori</kwd><kwd>social isolation</kwd><kwd>social disintegration</kwd><kwd>interdisciplinary research</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>молодежь</kwd><kwd>NEET-молодежь</kwd><kwd>хикикомори</kwd><kwd>социальная изоляция</kwd><kwd>социальная дезинтеграция</kwd><kwd>междисциплинарные исследования</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Bulanova M.B., Artamonova E.A. NEET-molodezh: evropeisky kontekst i rossiiskie realii [NEET youth: European context and Russian realities]. 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