Vol 5, No 2 (2018)

The reform of control and Supervisory activities (CPD) carried out in Russia claims to use modern approaches to management, including project management, risk-oriented approach. At the same time, the main problems and ways to solve them are seen by the developers of the reform in terms of improving the procedures of control (supervision), optimization of procedures for control measures. The main expectations of the reformation effect are associated with the use of information technologies in the CPI and the mechanistic consolidation of control (supervision) over the levels of management. The practice of control and Supervisory activities does not indicate fundamental changes, but rather reveals the reproduction of established bureaucratic approaches. The analysis of the Russian historical experience of control and Supervisory activities will allow not only to compare the technologies of state control and supervision in terms of the effectiveness of their application, but also to systematize information on the positive / partially positive application of methods and approaches to the implementation of control and Supervisory activities

The article is devoted to the consideration of the phenomenon of moving to a remote rural area for the permanent residence of townspeople and constructing their own practices of life. Today there was an urgent need to study the deep bases of this phenomenon. It does not fit into the traditional explanatory schemes developed to date in the scientific literature, because such bases are usually located in some hidden, inner-being spheres, which are difficult to break into which is not easy both for external observers and for the bearers of the corresponding structures of consciousness. This double paradox complicates the distinct sociological interpretation of the motivational and ontological grounds that motivate townspeople to move to the village and settle firmly in it. It is assumed that the behavioral models of this social group are determined by the system of norms and expectations that appear in the course of updating the structures of mass consciousness, when, in particular, the future of the urban structure of society is actively rethinking. Of such kind research focus has not yet appeared in the composition of sociological actions. Comprehension of this phenomenon can help to answer the question: why all the efforts to artificially force the Russian peasantry to a happy life during the last century had catastrophic consequences for him, and how, taking into account this understanding, the prospects of the urban evolution of society can be built? A new look at this kind of problems should focus more on ontological foundations of processes that determine the life practices of «new villagers», which, unlike traditional practices, already lead to a socio-cultural transformation of rural communities.

The article actualizes the information society’s formation as a postindustrial form of society’s socio-economic organization based on the mass use of information and telecommunication technologies (ICT). The growing rates of social development is followed by modification of the civil society’s structure: network communities and organizations. In these conditions public authorities are forced to look for a new and more efficient technologies of administration (management). However, according to the Global Innovation Index (GII-2017), a gap in the innovative opportunities remains across in the world (experience of developed and developing countries) which shows the low level of public administration in new information conditions. The solution of this “information inequality” becomes possible only within an integrated approach, because the information society is a catalyst for the socio-economic development of a state. The analysis made it possible to actualize the problems of interaction between public administration and the society, provide possible ways of their solving to modernize the system of public administration. The collaboration between advanced ICTs such as Internet of Things (IoT) (“smart city”; “smart environment”) and public administration contributes to the progress in the field of sustainable development of a country in general.