RUDN Journal of Sociology
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description: Editor-in-Chief: Nikolay P. Narbut, DSc. (Sociology), Professor ISSN: 2313-2272 (Print) ISSN: 2408-8897 (Online) Founded in 2001. Publication frequency: quarterly PUBLISHER: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University) Open Access: . APC: no article processing charge Peer-Review: double blind. Publication language: Russian, English Indexation: White List, Russian Science Citation Index (K1), Web of Science Core Collection — Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), Scopus (Q2), Google Scholar, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, WorldCat, Cyberleninka, ERIH PLUS, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Dimensions, ResearchBib, Lens, Research4Life, JournalTOCs
publisher: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumamba
language: ru-RU
publication name: RUDN Journal of Sociology
issn: 2313-2272
copyright: The right of authorship belongs to the authors of articles. The authors transfer the rights to use the article (including the use and distribution of an article in the Open Access) to the publisher of the journal on a non-exclusive license (Publishing Agreement (Public Offer)). At the same time, authors remain full rightsholders. Publishing Agreement (Public Offer) to Publish an Article in an Academic Periodical RUDN Journal of Sociology The Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba” (RUDN University), represented by the Vice-Rector for Scientific Work Andrey Aleksandrovich Kostin, acting under a Power of Attorney No 0036-03/21-163 dated 12.10.2021, hereinafter referred to as the Publisher, on the one hand, hereby offers to the public at large, hereinafter referred to as the Author, on the other hand, hereinafter collectively referred to as the Parties, to enter into this agreement, hereinafter referred to as the Agreement, regarding publication of scholarly materials, hereinafter referred to as the Article, in the Journal named 'RUDN Journal of Sociology', hereinafter referred to as the Journal, under the following terms. 1. General Terms and Conditions 1.1. Pursuant to Clause 2 of the Article 437 of the Russian Federation Civil Code, this Agreement shall be recognized as the public offer, hereinafter referred to as the Offer. Subject to Article 438 of the Russian Federation Civil Code, this Offer shall be deemed to have been completely and irrevocably accepted after the Author had submitted his/her materials by uploading those onto the network electronic system of the article acquisition for review available at the respective section of the Journal's site at URL: http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/sociology/author/submit/1 on the Information and Communication Network known as the Internet, hereinafter referred to as the Internet. 1.2. Pursuant to the Russian Federation …
items: Comparative analysis of the structural transformation of consumption in Russia and China
items: People have fun: Differentiating factors of entertainment choices
items: Belarusian family in the context of future challenges
items: On the dynamics of the perception of the elderly: Factors of positive changes under demographic aging
items: New industrialization and professional plans of the young generation: From schoolchildren and students to young specialists of the industrial enterprise
items: Project-based approach in teaching: University practice
items: Prospects for reintegration of shift workers into the labor market of their home region (on the example of the Republic of Mordovia)
items: Personal-professional efficiency of employees in the mature digital organization
items: Priority measures of the state support for the non-profit sector in the South of Russia and the Azov Region as a tool for achieving national development goals
items: Integration of quality standards into the university activities: Social regulators and their sociological assessment
items: Self-management as a tool for overcoming risks in school management
items: Generational interactions of educational communities in Russian universities: The subject field of research
items: Transformation of social structure in the neo-information society
items: Main components of the sociological study of happiness
items: Ambient media in the formation of the social-cultural space image of the city
items: Educational migration as a new direction of labor migration from Central Asia: A theoretical analysis
items: Salient topics in the local news of the digital media and societal security: A cross-national comparative study
items: Non-Western coverage of local crises in the societal-security perspective
items: Philosophical foundations of the polysemy of the concept of “care”
items: Typology as a result of participant observation in medicine
items: N.G. Skvortsov

Comparative analysis of the structural transformation of consumption in Russia and China
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description: The article is based on the results of the joint Russian Chinese research project. The authors use sociological and statistical data to consider the specifics of the structural shifts in the population’s consumption, which occurred under modernization in Russia and China. During the last thirty years, given an increase in population’s income and expenses, the proportion of household spending on food has decreased, but in China this decrease was more intensive and steady. Both countries show a considerable increase in the consumption of services. In China, the main focal point is a gradual transition from consuming to survive towards consuming for development (household spending on education, travel, leisure, household appliances, communication services and transportation), while in Russia the authors focus on the increasing demand for recreational services (spending on healthcare, fitness-wellness, entertainment, educational, tourism) that improve a family’s quality of life. However, despite positive trends, household consumption structure in both countries is still not on par with today’s demands. Moreover, in recent years, a point of particular concern for China has become high spending on housing and low demand for services in culture and leisure, while in Russia a recent decrease in purchasing power among the impoverished and the middle class has raised concerns. In both countries, there is a significant discrepancy in consumption between different income groups, urban and rural areas. The authors emphasize that the growing consumption in Russia and China is also determined by new trends in the development of information-communication technologies and the formation of a digital economy.
creator: P. M. Kozyreva
creator: Di Zhu
creator: A. I. Smirnov
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Kozyreva P.M., Zhu D., Smirnov A.I. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 565
ending page: 579
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-565-579

People have fun: Differentiating factors of entertainment choices
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description: Entertainment is an important part of human life. The study aims at assessing the demand for entertainment (cinema, theater, sports spectacles, museums) and at identifying entertainment priorities of various social groups of Russian adult population and the main types of entertainment consumption. The article is based on the official statistical data and representative data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) database for 2022 - Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions of the Population (CSLC) for respondents over 15 years old (N=117,634: 45 % men and 55 % women); factor analysis was used. Two main types of consumption were identified: 1) focused on spectacular events (cinema, sports) and visiting restaurants; 2) focused on highly spiritual, intellectual entertainment (theaters, exhibitions, concerts). Priorities in the choice of entertainment vary depending on social-demographic and economic characteristics: young people prefer cinema, women - theater, men - sports spectacles. Representatives of different types of families attend entertainment events more often than the average Russian, which may mean joint entertainment. Young families without children are the most active consumers of entertainment, since they attend all types of entertainment events more often than the national average: cinema - 64 % (the national average - 36 %), restaurants - 69 % (the national average - 48 %). Rural residents attend entertainment events less often, and their choices are less diverse than those of city residents. Wealthy groups spend more money on entertainment and a larger share of their expenses. In recent years, there has been a general trend of increasing spending on entertainment, but the most deprived groups in this regard are non-working pensioners and the disabled.
creator: I. B. Nazarova
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Nazarova I.B. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 580
ending page: 595
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-580-595

Belarusian family in the context of future challenges
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description: Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) is an international comparative study aimed at examining demographic, social and economic aspects of population life to identify how emerging challenges affect changes in family and demographic dynamics, including marriage, fertility, divorce, gender roles and intergenerational relations. The programme’s main research tool is the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) - a panel study that provides detailed data on daily life, family relationships and social-economic status. Based on the latest available wave of the GGS II survey, the authors examined the data on several countries as representing four profiles (to ensure a representative description of each): the first profile includes Austria and Germany, the second - Norway and the United Kingdom, the third - Estonia and Croatia, and the fourth - Belarus. Belarussian demographic development follows global trends: birth rates are rather evenly distributed across age groups; there is a noticeable shift in childbearing toward later reproductive ages and a persisting gap between the declared ideal number of children and actual fertility rates. Childlessness remains the least preferred model, while the two-child family is the most desired model in all countries under study; however, in Belarus and Estonia younger generations show a trend of declining desired number of children. Such factors as education, financial stability, housing conditions and state support contribute to postponing childbirth, which affects the total number of children born.
creator: A. A. Belov
creator: A. N. Danilov
creator: M. A. Korneevets
creator: L. V. Filinskaya
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Belov A.A., Danilov A.N., Korneevets M.A., Filinskaya L.V. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 596
ending page: 618
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-596-618

On the dynamics of the perception of the elderly: Factors of positive changes under demographic aging
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description: The article considers the dynamics of the perception of the elderly in Russia under the ongoing demographic aging and increasing staff shortage. Traditionally, intergenerational relations and the position of the elderly are associated with negative stereotypes, which for a long time have hindered the full integration of older people and the realization of their social-labor potential. Recently, the situation has changed due to the state and the labor market interest in active participation of the elderly. The article aims at identifying changes in the public perception of old age and aging and factors of such changes. The author used a quantitative methodology of the secondary analysis: the data of several all-Russian sociological surveys (2005, 2022, 2023, 2024) was compared. The results show a positive shift in public attitudes towards older generations despite persistent ambivalence. Old age is associated with positive qualities such as wisdom and rich experience. At the same time, there is a noticeable decrease in intergenerational contradictions due to the complex interaction of several factors: on the one hand, there is an increase in the educational level and general activity of the elderly, in their readiness for new forms of participation in social life; on the other hand, there are significant changes in the worldview of the younger generation, for whom “time for oneself” and personal hobbies have become a priority, and young people (especially among the 18-24-year-olds) demonstrate the greatest similarity of views with the 60+ generation, which contributes to mutual sympathies and reduces the intergenerational gap. The discovered trends indicate new opportunities for an effective intergenerational interaction such as mentoring in the professional-business sphere.
creator: T. B. Baranovskaya
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Baranovskaya T.B. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 619
ending page: 632
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-619-632

New industrialization and professional plans of the young generation: From schoolchildren and students to young specialists of the industrial enterprise
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description: The relevance of the study of the youth’s professional plans in relation to the industrial sector is determined by personnel shortage, erosion of institutional benchmarks during the period of professional self-determination, and the increasing role of human capital in production. In recent years, the scientific community has identified the problem of deengineering associated with labor imbalances at enterprises of real sector of the economy and having such deeper origins as deformation of the student youth’s professional self-determination. Under the intensively developing digitalization and social-cultural dynamics, utilitarian values o f the profession become a priority for the younger generation, but the model of new industriality suggests a different orientation - towards professional development, essence of work and management of cultural capital. The study aims at identifying students’ and working youth’s attitudes to the engineering profession and the nature of their professional plans. Several groups were surveyed in Yekaterinburg: 11th grade schoolchildren (N=2233); 2nd-4th-year students of technical schools (N=1865); 1st-6th-year students of universities (N=1009); young workers of the Ural industrial enterprise (under 35, N=204). The data indicates contradictions in the professional plans of young people. New industriality has determined the priority of knowledge in labor, the significance of involvement in production and of responsibility for the high-quality performance, but young people focus on external indicators (salary, career growth, good working conditions) in their professional path. The engineering profession by its nature coincides with impulses of today’s industrial development, but in the youth’s perception, on the contrary, is typically utilitarian.
creator: O. N. Shikhova
creator: E. V. Shalagina
creator: E. V. Pryamikova
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Shikhova O.N., Shalagina E.V., Pryamikova E.V. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 633
ending page: 651
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-633-651

Project-based approach in teaching: University practice
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description: The article considers the technology of project-based learning applied in the higher education system. For decades, this system has developed on the basis of fundamental knowledge rather than its practical application. Graduation from an educational institution posed a difficult task to apply the knowledge gained in the absence of practical skills, and the introduction of project technologies into the educational process solves this problem. The experience of applying project technologies in the higher education system shows the interest of universities and representatives of enterprises and organizations in joint activities for training future specialists. Employers’ requests allow universities to train specialists for specific tasks, which gives the economy an opportunity to increase its potential. Thus, the final qualifying work as a result of learning moves from a theoretical base to practical use. By creating a basis for project activity, universities use end-to-end project-based learning, which allows to prepare the final work through writing term papers. Project-based learning is mentioned in many studies as an independent method and is actively implemented in technical universities. Other areas of study can use project-based technologies for startups, applying theoretical approaches and mechanisms. Being part of training, the project sets real tasks for students: educational methodology is perceived through project goals achieved with a set of actions. The article provides an example of the project-based learning model in training sociologists at the RUDN University.
creator: Zh. V. Puzanova
creator: E. G. Kostrikin
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Puzanova Z.V., Kostrikin E.G. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 652
ending page: 664
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-652-664

Prospects for reintegration of shift workers into the labor market of their home region (on the example of the Republic of Mordovia)
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description: The article considers shift work on the example of returning labor migrants in the Volga Region. The study aims at assessing prospects for reintegrating shift workers into the labor market of their region of permanent residence. The study combined quantitative and qualitative approaches. The authors conducted an online survey (N=434) of residents of Mordovia working on a shift basis (mainly in Moscow and the Moscow Region - 79 %); the questionnaire focused on the key parameters of employment, income, and migration attitudes. Semi-formalized interviews were conducted with 24 shift workers (19 men and 5 women aged 22-60) on subjective factors of labor mobility and possibilities of return. The key obstacles to the return of shift workers were identified: a significant difference in wages (the average salary of shift workers is twice as high as the regional average); established practices of seasonal work as a social norm; psychological adaptation to a specific work schedule (“free time trap”). Most seasonal workers (82 %) are satisfied with their current employment - stable income (74 %) and flexible schedule (50 %), so only 15 % consider a return, mainly due to age or family circumstances, i.e. there are obvious limitations to the large-scale reintegration of shift workers into the labor market of their region. Shift employment remains a rational strategy for adapting to regional imbalances in the labor market, and traditional measures to stimulate return (job creation) are insufficient without taking into account labor expectations of shift workers. The region should focus on the hidden economic benefits of shift employment: money transfers, support for local businesses due to consumer demand generated by shift workers, long-term investments in the regional human capital, etc.
creator: N. P. Kasatkina
creator: S. V. Polutin
creator: N. V. Shumkova
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Kasatkina N.P., Polutin S.V., Shumkova N.V. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 665
ending page: 680
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-665-680

Personal-professional efficiency of employees in the mature digital organization
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description: The article considers the conditions of personal-professional efficiency of employees in the context of organizational AI maturity as the readiness and ability to use artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The study is based on the hypothesis that the continuous self-improvement of mature digital organizations affects work processes in the given external environment and directly stimulates personal self-improvement of employees in their professional activities. As an AI-mature organization the authors selected a company that has gone through the largest digital transformation and currently implements digital projects both for business and for solving strategic government tasks; one of its priorities is the integration of AI of “new generation” into the human-centric model of business processes (1). The authors show a high level of correlation between AI maturity and the human-centric focus of personal-professional efficiency, which suggests the need for controlled formation of a creative personality with a high level of subjectivity, motivation, responsibility, adaptability and learning ability, capable of building effective interaction and using digital environment, including AI technologies. The relevant criteria for personal self-development are as follows: adaptability, openness, tolerance for uncertainty, self-regulation, courage and metacognitive abilities. The study proved a potential negative impact of digitalization on mental health due to the level of development of digital environment and workspaces of digital companies. Thus, organizational sustainability in an intensively changing environment requires monitoring of the reserves of personal and professional efficiency and the working base that has the potential for continuous improvement and adaptation as a condition for maintaining and releasing cognitive reserves. The authors assess the prospects for an organizational culture of a selective autopoiesis type provided its AI maturity. The feature of …
creator: L. A. Vasilenko
creator: L. A. Stepnova
creator: E. A. Litash-Sorokina
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Vasilenko L.A., Stepnova L.A., Litash-Sorokina E.A. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 681
ending page: 700
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-681-700

Priority measures of the state support for the non-profit sector in the South of Russia and the Azov Region as a tool for achieving national development goals
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description: Measures of the state support for the non-profit sector under the restructuring of the Russian economy and actualization of many social issues have become essential for achieving national development goals and rational use of budget funds. The study aims at identifying priority areas of the state support for NGOs-residents in the South of Russia and the Azov Region for achieving national development goals. The authors conducted a comprehensive analysis of the state support for the non-profit sector in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Republic of Crimea, Lugansk People’s Republic, Krasnodar Region, Stavropol Region, Zaporizhia Region, Rostov Region, Kherson Region and the city of Sevastopol. The article presents the results of the analysis of the state support forms for NGOs in these regions and of sociological surveys on priority measures of the state support for the non-profit sector. The authors provide an assessment of the compliance of national development goals and types of activities of socially oriented non-profit organizations as established by the Russian legislation. In the economic conditions of recent years (including the consequences of the pandemic in 2020-2021, international sanctions regime and special military operation in 2022-2024), the state support for NGOs acts as a stabilizing factor for the sustainable development of the non-profit sector, but given the limited resources it is important to clearly set priority measures of such support to achieve national development goals.
creator: S. V. Chuev
creator: M. B. Polyakov
creator: I. A. Bugakov
creator: V. G. Ivanov
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Chuev S.V., Polyakov M.B., Bugakov I.A., Ivanov V.G. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 701
ending page: 716
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-701-716

Integration of quality standards into the university activities: Social regulators and their sociological assessment
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description: The wave-like development of social structure, rejection of “old” standards and adoption of their “new” versions in the rapidly changing geopolitical situation, digitalization and informatization of public relations make not only researchers but also managers take a different look at standardization - primarily in the sociological perspective. The basic principles of quality standards determine the significant role of sociological diagnostics in understanding the penetration of standards into the activities of management entities. The choice of an educational institution as an object of the study is explained by the peculiarities of both university activities and their results. It is in the higher education institution that the attitude towards quality standards is formed on the part of individuals representing different groups of university community. The article provides the authors’ description of the penetration of quality standards into educational activities, identifies formal and informal social regulators, presents an integral indicator of the level of satisfaction of students with educational process at the A.I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University (index of educational process quality), a matrix of management decisions that can be implemented by the educational organization based on the results of the sociological study and recommendations for improving the management of quality system. The authors admit that the results of their study require expert discussion that can confirm or refute the presented sociological description of the penetration of quality standards, which can become typical for educational organizations and ultimately affect the quality policy of most of them. The authors see prospects for continuing the research work in the development and expansion of management strategy for introducing quality standards into the functioning and management of educational institutions.
creator: N. L. Zakharov
creator: T. V. Smetanina
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zakharov N.L., Smetanina T.V. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 717
ending page: 730
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-717-730

Self-management as a tool for overcoming risks in school management
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description: Effective management of educational organization plays a key role in ensuring high quality education and well-being of all participants of educational process, which is why such management has always been a subject of interest for the scientific community and a focus of attention for management structures. However, today’s changes in social, economic and technological spheres give rise to a variety of risks that affect the stability of educational process, safety of students, work of staff and reputation of school, requiring clarification and supplementation of traditional models of school management from the standpoint of risk theory. One of possible approaches to risk management may be more active involvement of parents in school self-government. The article presents the results of the exploratory study conducted in the Republic of Bashkortostan with a survey (N=212), focus groups and expert semi-structured interviews to identify the main types of risks in school management and to assess the potential of various forms of school self-government in overcoming them. While recognizing the limitations of generalization based on the exploratory study with a small sample of a biased nature (the most interested, active and responsible parents were questioned), the author makes some conclusions: the greatest concerns of parents are about security threats, quality of education, financial issues and interaction with the school administration. In the developing self-government system, parents have the greatest trust in parent committees that participate in school everyday life and in student councils, whereas such forms as trustee board and management board are still unclear in terms of functions and structure. Almost every second parent is dissatisfied with the transparency of school spending and would like to interact with the school administration more regularly. The research data is confirmed by other studies showing that the active involvement of parents in school manage…
creator: R. R. Ishmukhametov
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ishmukhametov R.R. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 731
ending page: 742
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-731-742

Generational interactions of educational communities in Russian universities: The subject field of research
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description: The relevance of the study of generational relations of educational communities in Russian universities is determined by the increasing influence of the generational factor on various aspects of academic life and by the insufficient development of the theoretical-methodological foundations of such research. To understand the state of generational interactions between students, research-teaching staff and administrative-managerial personnel, it is necessary to develop the subject field of generational research in higher education. Such work will help to develop theoretical-methodological approaches, which today are reduced almost exclusively to the concept of W. Strauss and N. Howe, and to expand the list of research questions. In the sociology of higher education, there are no systematic ideas about the subject field of generational research of educational communities, its boundaries, structure and segments. The article aims at reconstructing this subject field and assessing the possibilities of extrapolating its structure to the sociology of higher education. The authors identified four fields in the generational approach: generational structure of society and the dynamics of generations; generational self-awareness; intergenerational relations and interactions; their regulation. This approach can be extrapolated to sociological studies of interactions between university educational communities. The authors proposed the following structure of the subject field of generational research in higher education: generational structure of university community (demographic, age, qualification, organizational and managerial substructures) and its dynamics; generational self-awareness (ideas about one’s generation and its differences from other generations, generational self-identity, values, interests and stereotypes); generational interactions in university community (from exchange, agreement, consensus, dialogue to conflicts, breaks, value split); regulation of intergenera…
creator: G. E. Zborovsky
creator: P. A. Ambarova
creator: N. B. Kostina
creator: D. Yu. Narkhov
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zborovsky G.E., Ambarova P.A., Kostina N.B., Narkhov D.Y. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 743
ending page: 761
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-743-761

Transformation of social structure in the neo-information society
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description: The article presents a sociological interpretation of the neo-information society as a special stage of social-cultural development based on a combination of methods: conceptualization, comparative analysis, secondary analysis of sociological and statistical (mediametric) data. The authors use a polyparadigmatic approach to critically rethink such interrelated categories as information society, network society, digital society, smart society, mobile society, electronic society and platform society, thus explaining the need for introducing the category of neo-information society into the social-humanitarian discourse. Since there are numerous attempts to make researchers accept the category of neo-information society (global information society, post-information society, information-communication society of knowledge, hybrid society), the authors explain vulnerabilities of such scientific studies and propose a definition for the concept of neo-information society. The article describes the main features of the neo-information society and social-communication relations in this type of society as predetermined by the collaborative interaction of three main groups of agents - traditional media producers, traditional media consumers and interested actors. Based on the results of the conducted research, the authors argue that the polyparadigmatic study of the neo-information society allows, on the one hand, to identify the features of modernization of the media space in contemporary social-political, social-economic, social-technical and social-cultural realities, and, on the other hand, to explicate the uniqueness of social-communication relations that influence the redefinition of social structure.
creator: A. A. Yefanov
creator: V. L. Muzykant
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Yefanov A.A., Muzykant V.L. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 762
ending page: 779
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-762-779

Main components of the sociological study of happiness
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description: The search for answers to the question of what happiness is and what is necessary for it began in ancient times, but there are still no unambiguous findings. Ancient philosophers proposed various concepts of happiness, linking it with virtue, absence of suffering or life in accordance with reason - today these ideas are still shared to some extent but considered insufficient for understanding and finding happiness. First surveys on happiness date back to the mid-20th century, when the concept of “subjective well-being” became a kind of “grassroot” analogue of a more ephemeral happiness, being a combination of life satisfaction with positive emotions. Gradually, a subject field of many sciences in the study of happiness developed, for instance, sociology focuses on social factors of happiness (support and trust), while economics - on the relationship between economic indicators and subjective well-being. Representative national and international studies of happiness are conducted by major sociological organizations worldwide. In Russia, such “measurements” aim at assessing the level of happiness in the context of general social well-being, including for a comparative international analysis, and at identifying factors influencing happiness and social well-being, including for public policy goals. In recent decades, the state has also shown concern about happiness, recognizing limitations of economic indicators alone and demonstrating a growing interest in less “quantitative” indicators of life quality. The article outlines the main components of sociological studies of happiness (search for its conceptual definition in an interdisciplinary context; features of its empirical interpretation and measurement; factors determining the level and “quality” of happiness) and some changes in their use and/or perception.
creator: I. V. Trotsuk
creator: A. E. Kaluga
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Trotsuk I.V., Kaluga A.E. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 780
ending page: 796
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-780-796

Ambient media in the formation of the social-cultural space image of the city
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description: The article presents a comparative analysis of the perception of ambient media in the social-cultural space of Yekaterinburg (Russia) and Newcastle (United Kingdom), based on the constructive scenario for overcoming the alienation of urban space and adapting to dynamic changes. The authors suggest a definition of ambient media, which includes the following elements: a special form of non-standard advertising communications; precise contextual correspondence of the advertising message to the environment; inclusion in the environment (a new form of the social-cultural space organization); modeling of urban space by filling it with new meanings. The study combined quantitative (online survey of Yekaterinburg residents) and qualitative (focus groups with “active” Yekaterinburg residents, interviews with a professional group - representatives of the advertising market - interviews with Newcastle residents) approaches. The assessment of ambient media by professional and non-professional groups of city residents showed the relevance and viability of this form of advertising together with its communicative, social-cultural and psychological advantages. For Newcastle residents, the most important are functional and communicative aspects of ambient media and the advertiser’s concern for the consumer, while for Yekaterinburg residents - the aesthetic factor (changing the city appearance, integration of interesting advertising into city architecture). The study reveals a projective model of the social-cultural space image of Yekaterinburg, created with the help of ambient media: creativity, novelty, concern for city residents, attractiveness for tourists, pride of local residents for their city. The authors admit that the perception of ambient media may be different in small and medium-sized cities, so they note the need to continue research and expand its subject field.
creator: E. A. Golubkova
creator: E. V. Grunt
creator: S. Atlagic
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Golubkova E.A., Grunt E.V., Atlagic S. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 797
ending page: 811
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-797-811

Educational migration as a new direction of labor migration from Central Asia: A theoretical analysis
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description: Educational migration has become a significant form of labor migration in Central Asia due to a growing number of students seeking higher education abroad and subsequently joining foreign labor markets. The article examines the interconnection between educational and labor migration, highlighting economic, social and institutional factors that make students remain in host countries after graduation. The study focuses on such theoretical frameworks as human capital theory, social mobility and brain drain vs brain circulation, providing a comprehensive analysis of how educational migration influences workforce mobility and national development. The author’s findings show that economic incentives, declining quality of higher education in Central Asia and favorable migration policies in destination countries contribute to the transformation of educational migration into long-term labor migration. Host countries of Central Asian students facilitate this transition by work permit programs and job market strategies, making foreign education a direct pathway to permanent employment. However, such challenges as work restrictions, labor discrimination and labor market saturation remain barriers to labor migration. The article also discusses implications of educational migration for both sending and receiving countries. While destination countries benefit from the skilled labor, Central Asian nations face brain drain, losing highly educated professionals that choose foreign labor markets. To mitigate these effects, the corresponding policies should include investment in national education reforms, incentives for return migration, and international cooperation for the degree recognition.
creator: A. Kh. Rakhmonov
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rakhmonov A.K. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 812
ending page: 822
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-812-822

Salient topics in the local news of the digital media and societal security: A cross-national comparative study
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description: The paper presents a cross-national comparative study of the content of the media agenda in Russia, Tajikistan, Latvia, Sweden, and Bangladesh. The media agenda is reconstructed through journalistic materials as components of the national digital media systems. Based on social-cultural and semantic approaches, concepts of salience and diversity, the authors examined the national media content that was released simultaneously and reproduced the local (national) agenda. The study identified significant themes, nominal and thematic diversity across countries. At the empirical stage of the study, the corpus manager Sketch Engine was used to apply the corpus linguistics techniques. The empirical base consisted of more than 300,000 words. Lexical-statistical, contextual, and thematic analyses allowed the authors to group the “strongest” key words and phrases into lexical-semantic groups, identify the most important thematic areas and specific topics and analyze the nominal and thematic inter-country diversity in terms of societal security. The distinctive topics seen in the media reproduce issues that are unique to each country and associated with its history, culture, and social-political situation. These topics preserve the structural stability of journalism and demonstrate the cultural diversity of discourse: the countries of the European Union (Latvia and Sweden) were in the summer holidays, Bangladesh was going through a revolution, Russia was engaged in the SMO and Tajikistan was facing the perennial economic development issues. Thus, national culture and identity were colored by national political priorities in news production.
creator: A. S. Sumskaya
creator: G. Simons
creator: A. Kumar Biswas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sumskaya A.S., Simons G., Kumar Biswas A. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 823
ending page: 834
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-823-834

Non-Western coverage of local crises in the societal-security perspective
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description: The article considers a small segment of the non-Western-centric world to understand how a selection of Bangladeshi news media covers the Russia-Ukraine conflict, i.e., the authors focus on the mass media coverage rather than how the Bangladeshi government may influence the news production. The research is based on two questions: RQ1 . How do Bangladeshi newspapers frame the Russian Ukrainian conflict; RQ2 . Which variables seem to impact the conflict coverage by Bangladeshi newspapers. The article begins with a literature review that briefly summarizes the current state of knowledge about the mass media coverage of armed conflicts. The second section presents the theoretical tools used to interpret the collected data on media framing, the third section - the research methodology, the fourth section - the case of the daily Bangladeshi newspapers coverage and framing of the Russian Ukrainian armed conflict. This study of two major daily newspapers in Bangladesh and their coverage of the Ukraine crisis and the Special Military Operation (SMO) represents a Non-Western mass media content analysis. The Ukraine crisis represents a major newsworthy topic in the Global North (the collective West), which is very deeply politicised as a form of information warfare against Russians and Russia’s interests. Therefore, the authors make use of a media framing as a theoretical basis in this qualitative study of the SMO news content of Daily Star and Dhaka Tribune . The results of the study are interesting and controversial: the Bangladesh mass media framing of the news stories resembles that of the Global North. However, there are some specific national features determined by the country’s history and active pursuit of a balanced and neutral foreign policy towards the Global North and the Global South, which creates a nuanced understanding of Russia’s security concerns and dilemma as legitimate, since Bangladesh’s foreign policy philosophy is based on the idea of being no one’s ene…
creator: A. K. Khan
creator: A. Hossain
creator: A. N. Shazed
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Khan A.K., Hossain A., Shazed A.N. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 835
ending page: 844
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-835-844

Philosophical foundations of the polysemy of the concept of “care”
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description: The article is a review of B. Groys’s Philosophy of Care (transl. from English by A. Fomenko. Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2024. 120 p.). This short book presents the conceptual foundations for the study of care as having fundamental importance in terms of the relationship between autonomy and dependence, self-care and external, institutional care, i.e., care is not just an “applied” term with which we tend to describe some ideal state of affairs (emotional content of labor in the broad sense) in medicine, education, cultural heritage preservation, environmental safety, etc.
creator: N. P. Narbut
creator: V. N. Ivanov
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Narbut N.P., Ivanov V.N. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 845
ending page: 850
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-845-850

Typology as a result of participant observation in medicine
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description: The article is a review-reflection on A. Reshetun’s Patientology: Those Who Wait, Lie, and ‘Just Want to Ask’ (Moscow: Alpina Publisher, 2025, 197 p.). In the sociological perspective, the book is not only, as stated in the annotation, “an ironic guide to the complex world of doctor-patient relationships” and “an attempt to look at familiar situations in clinics and hospitals from an unexpected angle”, but also the results of the expert participant observation, which may be useful for conducting theoretical and empirical sociological studies in the field of medicine and healthcare.
creator: L. V. Pashigorova
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pashigorova L.V. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 851
ending page: 857
doi: 10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-851-857

N.G. Skvortsov
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date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
volume: 25
number: 3
starting page: 858
ending page: 859