We chose young students as our research object as they represent a social-demographic group with a specific social health, lifestyle, social activity, and social well-being. Our research goal was to assess students' social health and to determine how they perceived risks for it. Analysis of social health risks perception by young students was performed within socio-centric and sociogenic approaches as well as risk-examining paradigm. We considered social activity, social networks involvement, and social well-being as key aspects of social health. It is shown that young students mostly have average social health as per its integral index. But here we detected low social activity, high social networks involvement, and average social well-being. We singled out 3 typical groups of young students: "socially active integrated optimists", "socially passive moderately integrated pessimists", and "socially passive integrated optimists". All three students groups mentioned difficulties related to employment as important social health risk factors; however, it were respondents with low social health who were most preoccupied with "future uncertainty". Young students with low social health are to a greater extent preoccupied with risk factors causing personal danger for themselves than for a society as a whole. It is necessary to create complex activities in a contemporary education space; these activates are to aimed at minimizing and preventing risks for Russian students' social health. We should make for higher social activity as it will inevitably lead to higher social well-being and improve overall students' social health.

The gender dimension is based on the idea that not the physical or biological differences between the masculine and feminine are significant, but the sociocultural meaning attached by the society to these differences. Gender specification of the sex is exposed quite early, but sometimes it is not noticed and the society, accordingly, does not pay much attention to it in the context of socialization of young people. One of the main reasons of the not entirely satisfactory health status of the youth in all its sides-physical, mental, and social-is at the root of this phenomenon. Despite the fact that at present, the findings of the social determination of the health status, its gender differentiation are generally recognized, the study of Russian students and their social health from the gender perspective has not yet become very popular in the sociological science. In this regard, the authors believe that at the level of sociological reflection, the development of a gender approach to the study of the social health of students, in the light of which this article analyzes the dependence on gender of the social health of students of the Southern Federal University, acquires critical importance.

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