Specific characters of the social state of children and adults in the modern society, including risk as one of social, economic, political, sociocultural description, are analyzed in the issue. The essence of the definitions “risk” and “society of risk” is shown, the main theoretical approaches to define them are systematized, their evolution is analyzed, their interrelation and interconditionality are shown. The author’s standpoint at modernization of Russian school, which is under reforms for twenty years and that social group as schoolchildren exposes to double risk – as a part of society and as a constituent of educational system, is being proposed. Article also states, that youth’s risks can be controlled, and one of the subjects of management must be children and adults.

risk, society of risk, riskology, sphere of problems of modern riskology