No 4 (2010)

According to the State Information Policy Concept of the Russian Federation, its long-term strategic aim is the building of democratic information-oriented society and the integration of Russia into the global information community. There are a number of challenges facing the states in the sphere of Internet regulation policy development. However, the campaign against various forms of internet addiction which are gradually gaining momentum has not been elaborated in detail. According to the author, the issue is urgent and requires further investigation as well as the development of countermeasures.

The article focuses on the civil society and its development in Russia in connection with the notion of legal culture. The legal culture is integral to people's social activities and it is inextricably intertwined into the system of social relations as a result of the regulatory control of the activity, the ranking and regulation of the public intercourse based on the law. The legal culture is uniquely positioned for exercising strong influence upon an individual since it involves competence, adherence and respect for the legal standards expressing the accumulated moral and political requirements of the society.

The article focuses on the online RDS experiment conducted to study the motivation of gamblers - i.e. people with an addiction to gambling. The rationale for the validity of the given technique for the investigation of closed social groups including the gamblers is provided by the author.

The article deals with the pivotal stage of professional identity formation of the youth, i.e. entering upon a career after graduation. The professional strategies of young professionals are analyzed in their development based on the data of case studies of graduates in the Sverdlovsk Region. The authors lay special emphasis on the strategies of employment and job search after graduation. The authors draw a comparison between the two cohorts of adolescents: the graduates who obtained employment amid the economic crisis of the late 1990-s and those who found employment amid the mid-to-late 2000-s crisis.

The article touches upon the role of advertising in the contemporary living environment of an individual and society. The technology of copy preparation (the use of metaphors, humour, segmentations, speech patterns, etc.) is exposed. The planning of advertising campaign, its differentiation on various grounds and the close connection with the globalization process in the contemporary world are also examined.

The article offers the insight into the synthetic approach to the study of state property within the sociological perspective. Various approaches to the study of property are scrutinized: the Marxist, the private-public, the functional, the institutional and the contemporary synthetic one. The necessity for the investigation of state property as a system of social institutions is asserted. The potentialities of social regulation of state property are identified in this very item.

The importance of the analysis of various aspects of organizational culture which is defined by many contemporary researchers as one of the major determinants of socioeconomic development of the country is associated with the fact that entrepreneurial business underlies the regular development of any regional economy. Despite the existence of universal norms the sociocultural patterns of the country have an impact on many aspects of entrepreneurial behaviour. It is demonstrated in the article by the example of two ethnic groups of the Republic of Chad that the given influence increases in cases when traditional values prevail and many elements of traditional social structure are preserved.