The article considers the specifics of civic patriotism and its potential as an idea conducive to the consolidation of the youth in a polyethnic region of Russia. The authors examine the difficulties of civil patriotism formation among young people in the South of Russia in the context of cultural and civilizational features of the region, its social and economic problems, and geopolitical rivalry in the region.

The article provides the analysis of author’s sociological survey results "Study of awareness among the population of the Rostov region about mediation". The main aspects of the sociological survey program are described: the objective, tasks, subject, and terminological framework, conceptual model, hypotheses of the study and the confirmation level of each of them. The author on the basis of the study formulates the insights for key positions.

This article analyzes the features of corporatism in Russian society in the context of various approaches to the study of the problem. It is noted that corporatism of administrative management subjects is dependent on organizational (internal) norms and rules, and is related to personnel selection, adaptation to the conditions of administrative management. The author comes to the conclusion that the position of the special estate is being formed and in order to achieve significant results...

In article theoretical features of leisure activity and its integration innovation (recreational and animation activity) in modern Russian society are considered. The interdisciplinary perspective of a research is analyzed with assistance of public and private partnership. In the article the functional purpose of recreational and animation activity, its purpose and potential objects for studying within this activity are considered. Special attention is paid to the questions of institutional development of recreational and animation activity and...

The article is devoted to the reasons for the low social efficiency of municipal elites in the Southern Federal district. The authors’ attention is focused on the elite features in the Southern Federal district. The article is based on the results of the empirical studies that were conducted on the territory of the Rostov region and cross-border regions. The authors come to the conclusion that the main cause for the low social efficiency of the...

The article based on the monitoring data of sociological research analyzes social wellbeing of engineers and workers. It is found that the decline of social well-being has an impact on social and professional status and negative impact on professional identity of the engineers and workers in the Soviet era economy. There are new kinds of it – the injured and forced identity.

The article substantiates the hypothesis that the increased quality of information and communication has become an essential component of human society, transforming it in the digital world, creating cyberspace. Computerization of all spheres of social relations and social ties leads not only to global information metamorphosis in public sphere, but also to transformation of the very nature of human.

The article discusses Western and Russian types of individualism, as well as various modal individualistic patterns of behavior in contemporary Russian society. The authors come to the conclusion that in modern Russian society the liberal individualistic model of conduct adheres to a small number of Rus-sians. In the result of modernization reforms in Russia and conservative wave that swept the Russian society at the turn of the century, liberal-statist and statist-liberal model of social behavior...

The article analyses the phenomenon of new collectivism which is manifested in social positioning of Russians as the requestfor the joint practices focused on self-realization and social utility. On the basis of extensive sociological material, the author of the article concludes that active social class of Russian society is moving from the position of "selfish, irresponsible individualism", typical for socially anarchic attitudes in the mass consciousness in the 1990s, to a model of social responsibility,...

The goal of the article is to study the interethic harmony resource of Russian youth, as a factor that affects both the implementation of life strategies and the sphere of civic engagement. On the basis of extensive empirical material, it is concluded that Russian youth actualizes the resource of interethnic harmony at the level of civil identity. But the interethnic agreement narrows at the interpersonal level to the neutrality towards the alien environment.

Concepts of professional subjectivity formation and development are described. Status of up-to-date professional education is examined, on this basis, dominants of its development are described, outlines of culturaleducational area where the rise of personality`s subjectivity occurs are presented. Reference points of social and cultural projection of the process of professional subjectivity formation and development are described.

The authors carry out a philosophical study of the genesis, nature and fate of cultural creativity, based on Orthodox philosophical underpinnings. Philosophical and religious reflection of this problem is very significant in terms of transitive state of socio-cultural reality in modern Russia. The comprehension of S.N. Bulgakov cultural and philosophical views allows us to reveal the Christian-Orthodox vision of this issue. It allows to identify the ways to overcome the crisis of modern culture.

The article is devoted to the justification of the need to address social ethics of the culture forming religions in the Russian Federation while studying the influence of worldview peculiarities on the legal consciousness and legal conscience in the context of globalization processes and the modernization in Russian society.

Criteria of health culture, as a culture of ailment, are the attitudes toward health as value and behavioral practices that reflect the real attitude of individual, social group and society towards health. In Russia, there is a discrepancy between value attitude to health and real behavioral practices at the level of society. It can be explained from the standpoint of transformation nature of Russian society development and the rapid dynamics of reality. The reality at...

The article is devoted to possible social and cultural transformations of symbolic network generation in Russia related to further development of the latest high technologies, primarily information and communication technologies and the evolution of the Internet network. Based on the results of modern domestic and foreign research, the author identifies trends, typical for the network generation in modern society. It is emphasized that technological evolution occurs much faster than biological evolution. Various factors that influence...

The article analyzes the correlation of fundamental properties of the ethnic system as an open type system, the manifestation of which can lead to both its improvement and degradation. It is asserted that the openness property of an ethnos is the most important. Openness ensures the realization of a number of other properties of ethnic system – nonequilibrium, nonlinearity, dissipativity, etc. Nonequilibrium generates the sensitivity to small perturbations and fluctuations. Their accumulation can lead to...

The authors consider the problem of comfortable visual environment formation for the harmonious personality formation. The environment ecology shaping with design, as the art of modern environment creation. The authors’ idea is that the habitat of modern human, formed by nature, art and different design types, such as architectural design, landscape design, communicative design, interior design, costume design, etc., organize human environment and even his/her appearance in such a manner that they affect the personality...

The article is devoted to the analysis of V. N. Karpov psychological attitudes in the context of philosophical synthetism. It was shown that V. N. Karpov, believing the consciousness as a fact of inner experience and the real thing as the basis of the philosophy, sought to withdraw from the category of consciousness beginning of everything that person thinks, feels, wishes. Thereby he laid the foundations of subjective psychology. He did not only define the...

Theoretical and methodological issues of research of demonstrative consumption are examined in the context of the growing social role of consumption and its symbolic component in terms of modern social and cultural reality. The circumstances of construction of consumption as a differentiating activity that builds social differences and shapes the way of life and social ideology are revealed.

The philosophy of Suprematist artist Kazimir Malevich is the most important theoretical and creative concept of interaction of Russian art in the twentieth century, especially in the initial phase. It played as big role as the concept of Kandinsky and other distinguished artists and innovators in the real interaction process of art style formation. In the article the author makes an attempt to understand philosophically the creative way of the author of the famous «Black...

The article examines various explanations of the possibility of harmonization of the relationship between the private and public spheres of human existence as one of the main conditions of social order. The authors focus on the history of philosophy from Aristotle to R. Rorty, the representative of the philosophy of pragmatism. It is also shown that all explanations were based on that or other understanding of the human essence.

The author covers the period of the XVIII - the beginning of the XIX centuries as an era of special attention to the mystery in Russian society. According to the author, at this time in Russia there were two major processes in the field of mystical search. The first process is the penetration of the Western occult currents into Russian soil, connected with the impoverishment of the mystical component of Orthodoxy. Not finding an intensive...

The complexities of social transformation led to the fact that Russian government, implementing its new interests and values, began to evolve in the direction of neoholding and political authoritarianism. The core idea of various ideological programs is "great Russia" and its restoration. Holding greatness invariably merges with the idea of a strong state as a sort of superstition, the main ideological "hit" of the Russian neo-nomenklature, when a strong state is viewed as a self-worth,...

The entropic nature of modern Russian society functioning, fixed at the level of empirical measurement of everyday reality and the trends of social, economic and political development, requires social and philosophical justification and comprehension. The purpose of this article is to present the features of social and philosophical reflection of entropic processes in Russian reality, methodological and empirical substantiation of its development in the logic of entropy algorithm of social and cultural reproduction. The value...

The article is devoted to the revealing of the prevailing system of values in Russia. On this basis, it is concluded that social modernization and modernization of social interactions, first of all, between different social groups and power structures, are in demand in Russian society. It is shown that the implemented modernization processes or the introduction of its symbols lead to a change in citizens’ attitudes to their place of residence, weakening patriotic sentiments.