Izvestiya of Saratov University.
Sociology. Politology
ISSN 1818-9601 (Print)
ISSN 2541-8998 (Online)

Scientific section. Sociology

Suicidal behavior of youth: Virtual information impact

The article describes the suicidal behavior of young people, indicating that for the last thirty years Russian young people from 15 to 25 years old have occupied in third place in deaths due to suicide. The article evaluates the virtual impact on the consciousness of young people in relation to suicides and suicidal behavior, examines the role of fi lms and TV series, music and comics, cartoons and books in relation to death and suicide. The article examines the types and motives of suicides and suicidal behavior within the framework of the approach of E.

Social consequences of labor digitalization

The article considers the social consequences of labor digitalization, both the formal organization of activities (in the form of options for digitalizing work processes, remote employment, etc.), and substantive activities (expressed in the emergence of new professions and the extinction of old ones, the need to master basic IT programming skills and new digital skills). Digitalization is becoming the tool that connects cognitive knowledge, technologies and the implementation of opportunities in virtual reality.

Reasons, motives and life contexts of applying to the social contract in the direction of individual entrepreneurial activity

The social contract as a form of state social assistance began to be most actively used from 2021–2022, when all constituent entities of the Russian Federation began to receive federal co-fi nancing, although before that it had been practiced in a number of regions as a pilot project. It should to stimulate a citizen’s own eff orts to get out of poverty, helping to increase income in the long term, supporting entrepreneurial and other labor initiatives.

Development of creative potential in the assessments of cadets of the military institute

The content of creative potential development as a complex of received and independently acquired skills, competencies, abilities for creative action, as well as the measure of their implementation in the process of military service are specified. The self-assessment zones of consistent assessment of creative abilities development are substantiated: educational, as well as service-labor (practical).

«Lived religion» in the rear and on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War

This article is devoted to the analysis of everyday religious practices of Soviet citizens during the Great Patriotic War. The theoretical and methodological basis of the analysis is the concept of “lived religion”, developed by Meredith B. McGuire, Robert Orsi, Ivan Strensky.

From the linguistic turn in sociology to narrative

The linguistic turn in sociology has established language-related issues as a primary focus in the examination of socio-humanitarian human activities. The acceptance of texts (linguistic statements) as socio-cultural phenomena that construct social reality facilitates the exploration of socio-cultural contexts and value-behavioral models of social actors engaged in social actions. However, the assertions regarding the social role of language that delineate the specifi city of social actions have not consistently been acknowledged.

The role of social projects in the development of family values in Russian small territories (based on the results of a sociological study in the Perm region)

The article is devoted to the study of social projects aimed at developing family values in modern Russia, using the example of the sociological study of small territories of Perm region. The changes in family policy and the «turn» towards strengthening traditional family values in the past few years are analyzed. The signifi cant role of the federal and regional levels, including the national projects, Rosmolodezh, the Presidential and Governor’s Grants Funds, Elena and Gennady Timchenko Foundation are emphasized.

Representation of family fertility in commercial advertising

The article presents an analysis of the representation of the family images and family fertility in commercial advertising. In sociology the terms “need for children” and “desire to have children”, and the concepts of the average expected, the average ideal and the average desired number of children were introduced. Commercial advertising, as one of the forms of mass media, can provide a limited impact on the desire to have children through moderating the social norm.

Social confl ict as a subject of mediation: Theoretical and methodological conceptualization in the plane of the sociological approach

The article presents a retrospective meta-refl exive analysis of the views of thinkers on social confl icts and approaches to their resolution: from the classics of antiquity to the present day through the prism of assessing social confl icts as a subject of mediation - an approach to preventing and resolving confl icts with the participation of an independent neutral mediator (mediation). The goal of the study is to search for theoretical and methodological foundations of mediation in the plane of the sociological approach.

Sociological theory of the ruling elite of Ch. R. Mills: Actualization of socio-political views in modern reality

The article examines the sociological theory of the ruling elite created by the famous American sociologist Ch. R. Mills. Although the theory formulated by him in the last century was a rather important step forward for his time in the study of that social community, today the analysis of its basic provisions is not so often found in modern research. At the same time, many of its provisions are not only not outdated, but are also a refl ection of the modern portrait of the elite, and the socio-political processes taking place in society.

Pages