Dissertation aims to identify social factors that influence the choice to postpone studies and reveal connections between the choice to postpone studies with different types of society’s development in Lithuania and Germany (macro and micro levels). Sociological analysis of postponing studies is described as a combination of individual and structural theoretical attitudes. Following the end of sociology school dominated by functionalistic theories, no other prevailing theories rose, therefore every individual researcher was left with an open space to prepare and reveal research problems in various lights. That is why in this work postponing of studies is explained by exploiting theoretical perspectives starting with functionalists (Merton, 1968) and theories explaining acts of rational actor (Elster, 1989, 2000) and finishing with perspectives of late modernity era and analysis of post-modern theories (Fromm, 2005; Giddens, 2000; Goffman,1963; Bourdieu, 2003; Inglehart; 2005; Bauman 2011; Baudrillard, 2010 et al.). This dissertation was written in the light of humanistic development theoretical model, which explains the processes within the modern society and the change in values that is linked to these processes. The analysis embraces collected empirical data from Lithuania and Germany. Those that choose to postpone studies in Lithuania could symbolise a litmus paper, indicating, to which stage of modern society the group belongs to judging by its behaviour. It is still small, but growing, in Lithuania. On this occasion it can be noted that strong and opposing environmental reaction to those that choose to postpone studies – even amongst peers – indicates that we can only talk post-material values and late modernity de facto to be a change that can hardly be felt yet.