The article examines the phenomena of resocialization and desocialization, which have become more acute in modern society due to the growing number of older people. The article considers the inevitability of abandoning the three-stage demographic model of the life cycle in favor of the four-stage model for reasons of increasing the standard of living and life expectancy of the population. The author's interpretation of the concepts of resocialization as a revision of identity, partial change or modification of social roles and desocialization as a process of loss of acquired identification characteristics by a person, deformation of professional and family roles up to their loss is presented. The processes of resocialization and desocialization in elite and egalitarian groups of men and women are considered. These processes are not the same for different gender groups, nor for groups with different social status. For elite groups of men and women in high professional positions, the processes of re- and de-socialization are less acute. In the most widespread groups, men practically do not survive to re- and de-socialization. The most urgent problem seems to be in the group of middle-class women, since it is this group that experiences the greatest burden of age-related life transformations and at the same time remains active for the longest time. Social support programs for people of silver age should be designed primarily for this group.
VINOGRADOVA et al. (Sun,) studied this question.