The relevance of the study is associated with the contradiction between the need of high school students for life self-determination in the context of gender socialization and the unpreparedness of the school education system to fulfil this need. The purpose of the study presented in the article is to identify the features of subcultures of young males and females in a Russian town. We tested the hypothesis of qualitative and quantitative differences in the subcultures of young males and females living in a provincial town.
