No 2 (2014)

На основе многочисленных документальных источников (материалов конференций, совещаний, симпозиумов) рассматривается четырехлетний (1984-1987), во многом переломный, период деятельности Института социологических исследований АН СССР по развитию и пропаганде социологической науки в стране. Обращается внимание на начавшееся в то время проведение масштабных социологических исследований, «выход» социологов в средства массовой информации (радио, телевидение), показана роль государственных и партийных органов в этом процессе.

The article considers the period of childhood as a social construct and focuses on the duration of this life’s phase, the historical changes of children’s social position and the childhood symbolic image in the culture following the development of educational institutions and styles. The authors analyze the theories of such recognized authors in the field of social and cultural genealogy of childhood as Philippe Ariès and Lloyd de Mause.

The author distinguishes two forms of corruption - market corruption and network corruption. The market corruption is the use of public office for personal gain, when every firm or individual who pays a bribe receives public services. The network corruption is the use of public office for personal gain, when only those firms or individuals who are in kinship, friendship or business relationships with public officials receive public services. The author believes that network and market corruption may have different causes and consequences, that is why they should be treated separately. Using Life in Transition Survey II from EBRD (2010) the aggregated level of the market corruption, network corruption and the mixed form of corruption was measured. The results showed that the market corruption and the mixed form are strongly positively correlated and are very sensitive to worsening of socio-economic conditions. The pure network corruption correlates negatively with two other forms and is more inert and stable. The pure network corruption is not associated with worsening of socio-economic conditions and is rather a reaction to the strict anticorruption measures in the poor institutional environment.

The article describes the peculiarities of the development and use of multiple identifications method and the results of an empirical study of the images of ethnic groups. The author considers the problem of reconstructing the semantic space, describes the instruments of the research based on the psychosemantic method of multiple identifications, analyzes the positions of different ethnic images in the subjective semantic space of PFUR students, identifies the possibilities and limitations of the method in sociological surveys.

The article analyzes the data of an empirical study of the value orientations of Kazakhstani youth. The author believes that the problem of studying the youth value orientations has two interrelated aspects: first, through such surveys, we identify the whole society dominant values; second, we reveal features of the value orientations of the young people as a specific socio-demographic group. The article analyzes the empirical results of the project conducted by the National Research Center ‘Youth’ of the Eurasian National University named after L.N. Gumilyov and devoted to the problems of social and cultural adaptation of youth in the cities of Kazakhstan. The project focused on such questions as the system of youth values, their susceptibility to re-evaluation, differences in the youth outlook priorities in gender and age groups. The results of the research show that, on the one hand, boys and girls adhere to the individual achievements strategies characterized by self-reliance, activity and orientation on the career; on the other hand, there is a clear prevalence of the values related to the closest social circle.

In the face of constant changes and instability, every organization feels an increasing demand to develop personal qualities of the staff for the effective functioning. As a result of the formation of intangible assets management, we have obtained methods for managing emotions as a part of the intellectual capital. The article discusses the basic models and techniques for measuring emotional intelligence of the head of a company, in particular, J. Mayer, D. Caruso and P. Salovey model of abilities (test MSCEIT V2.0) and mixed model (D. Lusin EmIn test and R. Bar-On EQ-i test), their advantages, limitations and heuristic value when applied to the study of organizations.

The article considers the legal culture as an ‘ideal phenomenon’ providing value meanings for the outlook of the Kazakhs and the basis for the development of the population legal consciousness. The author focuses on the national significance of the legal, civil society and the development of new legal social ideals, norms and rules, examines key problems and contradictions in the legal culture of today’s Kazakhstan.

The article shows the potential of the system-process approach to the management of organizational changes in a modern enterprise on the example of the electric power industry. The author believes that the proposed model of organizational changes management allows to develop and effectively implement the problem-target mechanism for managing organizational changes focused on more comprehensive and sustainable achievement of goals of an enterprise activities’ optimization in the new economic conditions.