The semantics of the word "tolerance" is variable and debatable. Conceptual analysis of adolescent tolerance and the development of ways to study it are one of the topical areas of modern sociological research. In this paper, a conceptual model of the concept of adolescent tolerance is constructed. As a result of a study of the social representations of adolescents (high school graduates), a classification of attitudes shared by them regarding ways to overcome social conflicts, hostility and contradictions in modern society is given. The typology of adolescent tolerance of students, differing in activity (passivity), benevolence (confrontationalism) of life positions, willingness (refusal) to overcome contradictions between "friends" and "aliens", has been determined. The author analyzed the texts of mini-essays - the semantics and emotional register of the vocabulary used by adolescents were taken into account, the attitudes and types of social perceptions of high school students about tolerance were recreated. This approach makes the toolkit of public opinion polls more accurate.