Scientific section. Sociology

The article devoted to the study of the phenomenon of volunteer activities. particular attention is paid to the importance of civil society’s social position of young people, which is manifested through volunteering. The approaches to the analysis of volunteerism highlighted various forms, types and motivations of young people volunteering.

The professionalization of municipal employees as a continuous process of identification, originating in a specific socio-historical context is discussed in the article. Based on previously published data of the comparative sociological research conducted between February–March 2015 in France and in Russia, the conclusion about the impact of social and economic transformations taking place in a particular society, the process of professionalization of certain professional groups is made.

In the article the author analyzes theoretical and methodological problems of civil society constructing of identity in Russia. Classical civil society of the modern period assumes existence of such components as surroundings (environment – the national and constitutional state, the citizen – the carrier of civil identity showing the civic stand in public space and its aktualizing it in the corresponding civil practices. During a postmodern period national societies are changed into mass and consumer societies.

В статье с социологической точки зрения анализируется геронто­логический аспект адаптации пожилых людей к реалиям совре­менной российской действительности.