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The linguistic turn in sociology has established language-related issues as a primary focus in the examination of socio-humanitarian human activities. The acceptance of texts (linguistic statements) as socio-cultural phenomena that construct social reality facilitates the exploration of socio-cultural contexts and value-behavioral models of social actors engaged in social actions. However, the assertions regarding the social role of language that delineate the specifi city of social actions have not consistently been acknowledged.

In this article represented results of empiric research of risk in everyday life of Saratov youths. It was identified motives of risk preparation and detected factors, which affect on the risk`s attitude of respondents. It was such factors as respondent’s age, occupation and desire to risk and create riskful situation. It was allocated five groups of people: «hyper venturesome», «venturesome», «risky», «moderately risky» and «not risky». We showed features of every type of respondents and indicated their advantages and disadvantages.