The Sociological Study of the Eventfulness of Childhood: an Evidence-Based Design of Programs for Children and Youth

The purpose of the article is to prove the possibilities and limitations of studying childhood events to justify practice-oriented projects in the ï¬ eld of youth policy and childhood support. The article describes main directions of the evidence-based approach in applied research. Authors argue the need to use sociological data on the scale, speciï¬ cs of various situations, episodes, debut events in childhood for making management decisions in evidence-based state policy in the ï¬ eld of childhood and youth. The data of panel studies “Eventfulness of Childhood†implemented in 2018 and 2023 are analyzed. From an array of 100 signiï¬ cant childhood events, those that are most relevant for designing various programs for children and youth (deviant childhood events, introduction to subcultural practices, mastering information and communication technologies, traditional practices of mastering culture) were selected to argue the evidence-based approach. It has been revealed which groups of children and adolescents are the target audience for projects on the prevention of deviation and associative subcultural groups, introduction to reading, digital hygiene programs, etc. The prospects for development of an evidence-based approach have been identiï¬ ed: the imperative of using it not only at the initial stage of creating projects, but also upon completion of programs to prove effectiveness, the need to introduce research as a mandatory condition in grant programs, and a change in the priorities for selecting experts.