The article identifies the main problems of transforming economic relations and increasing effectiveness of innovative and investmet processes in modern Russian society.
The article examines the main forms and methods to train professional sociologists at the Center of Regional Sociological Studies of Saratov State University.
The article deals with theoretical and methodological approaches to studying social mechanisms of power relations reflecting specific and substantial characteristics of transformations in socio-political field in contemporary Russia.
The article is dedicated to the sociological research of the phenomenon of Russian mentality. The analysis is carried out of the social-economical factors of its forming. The actuality of this research explained by the direct connection between the Russian’s realities and the Russian mentality.
The article analyzes the main problems of management of economic development in modern Russian society. The emphasis is made on financial aspect of stabilization of economic relations in current environment.
The article analyzes topical and complex problems of development of social science and emergence of new sociological paradigms in modern Russia on the edge of 21 st century through the notion of «social determinism».
ln the article the peculiarities of N.N. Alekseevs sociological views upon the problems of political elite are considered. The famous Russain legal philosopher and sociologist N.N.Alekseev was one of the firs in Russian science to make an attempt to compare such notions as «ruling class» and «political elite». ln the work became evident his contribution to the essence forms and role of elite strata in the life. A special attention is paid to the interpretation the signs of the ruling class and the specificity of its forming proposed in his works.
The paper analyzes specific features and survey procedures of social identification of the population of the transforming Russian society (with the Saratov region as an example), criteria of resolving the middle class are proposed, its characteristics are given.
