The article investigates the problems of the influence of public changes in the modern globalizing society on the childhood as a period from birth to full social maturity that are insufficiently explored in the socio-humanitarian knowledge. Today child subculture phenomena are especially topical for educational sphere, because they allow understanding the traditional forms and ways of regulation of relations in child groups, their substantial transformation in the child environment in the last decades, their influence on the peculiarity of intergenerational relations, as well as the influence on the world of adults in general.