scholarly journals SOCIAL RESOURCES OF THE PRIMORSKY KRAI FOR SERVICE UNDER THE CONTRACT IN ARMED FORCES OF RUSSIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-187
Author(s):  
Angelina S. VASHCHUK ◽  
Elena N. CHERNOLUTSKAIA
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Primorsky Krai ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Demographic Dynamics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

Introduction. The topic of military reform in Russia in the late XX - early XXI centuries is part of the fundamental problem of relations between Russian society and the army. The literature traces different approaches in her research. One of the important areas is the study of the transition to a professional army, which actualizes the problem of the social resources of such a transition, taking into account the characteristics of specific territories. The proposed article discusses the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of social resources of the Primorsky Krai for the formation of contract troops, including the demographic dynamics of the respective age cohorts, attitudes towards this type of professional activity from those who have not yet served youth (for example, students) and those who have experience contract military service.Methods. The empirical basis of the article consists of official documents, statistical data on demographic dynamics, materials of opinion polls of 2017. The study used factor and comparative analysis; in the study of demographic resources - the method of compiling tables, longitudinal and transverse analysis. Conclusions are also obtained on the basis of the application of the questionnaire method.Results. Over the past 10 years after the end of hostilities in Chechnya, a new social and professional group has emerged in the country - peacetime contract servicemen; elements of increased expectations of positive changes in the Russian army are actively forming in Russian society. Nevertheless, the Primorsky Krai remains a territory with a reduced social resource for recruiting young people under contract, which is important to take into account in Russia’s domestic policy. In the foreseeable 20-year term, the reduction in the number of male population suitable for contract service will continue. On the other hand, in Primorye, a low degree of orientation among students towards military service as a form of social mobility remains.Conclusions. Despite the good implementation of recruitment plans for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation under the contract in recent years, the degree of physical and moral readiness of young people for it was insufficient, which entailed a high “turnover” of contract soldiers in the army, the predominance of insufficiently experienced personnel among them. The policy of increasing the prestige of the social and professional status of a contractor, along with measures of material interest, must be supported by in-depth (and not just “parade”) patriotic education and preliminary moral and psychological training for young people. It is the qualitative characteristics that can increase the importance of a social recruitment resource for a contract service and, to a certain extent, compensate for the demographic restrictions in the territories.

Beyond millennials v baby boomers: Using kindness to assess generationalism across four age cohorts in Australia

2021 ◽  
pp. 003802612110162
Author(s):  
Nicholas Hookway ◽  
Dan Woodman
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Longitudinal Methods ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Youth And Young Adults ◽  
Generation Period ◽  
Life Cycle Effects

Today’s young people (youth and young adults) are routinely understood in generational terms, constructed as narcissistic and selfish in comparison with their predecessors. Despite announcements of a weakening commitment to values of kindness and generosity, there is little empirical research that examines these trends. The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes shows that young people are more likely to be kind but are less likely to think most Australians are kind. This article investigates this tension using focus groups with Australians of different ages (corresponding to major generational groupings) and drawing on the sociology of generations. To differentiate between generation, period and age/life-cycle effects requires longitudinal methods. However, these qualitative data suggest that a ‘generationalist’ discourse of young people as narcissistic is powerful in Australia and that young people are both internalising and challenging this framing. They appear to be responding to common experiences of growing up with the social and economic uncertainties of an ‘until-further-notice’ world and express strong support for values of kindness and openness to difference.

scholarly journals Internet in Social Reality of Russian Youth: Potential Risks and Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Rudenkin
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Social ◽  
Everyday Reality

The paper is devoted to an empirical analysis of the role of the Internet in the everyday reality of Russian youth. The author notes that the unusual speed of the Internet spread in the life of Russian society made the circumstances of growing up of modern young Russians very specific. In fact, they became the first generation of Russian “digital natives”. Growing up in the conditions of the rapid spread of the Internet in society, many of them are used to perceiving the Internet as a natural and inalienable attribute of everyday reality. The author uses materials of secondary data analysis and the data of his sociological research among Russian youth to determine the role of the Internet in the social reality of youth and to find out the possible risks and opportunities that it can create. The empirical basis of the study is a questionnaire survey conducted by the author in 2018 among the youth of the city of Ekaterinburg, Russia. The key conclusion of the article is that the Internet is deeply integrated into the social reality of modern Russian youth. The growing importance of the Internet in life is a source of a number of risks, which include the formation of Internet addiction, increasing the vulnerability of young people to destructive content and the formation of a communicative gap between representatives of different generations. The Internet can also be used to broadcast information to a youth audience, to organize cooperation among young people, to popularize good practices and for other purposes. Keywords: youth, Russian youth, Internet, “digital natives”, Russian society

scholarly journals The Role of Youth Non-profit Organizations in the Formation and Development of Social Elevators in Modern Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Kirill Andreevich Cherkess
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Reputation ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
Further Development

Youth non-profit organizations are described con-sidering their participation in the modern political life of Russian society and their role in the political socialization of young people. The author raises the problem of formation and development of social elevators in the context of ensuring social mobility of young people, as well as the possibility of access to this tool in modern Russia. As part of the study of youth non-profit organizations, the author gave a charateristics of the organizations operating on a national scale, which have a media reputation, and develop projects focused on the vertical mobility of their participants. Arguments are given in favor of individual and collective social elevators within the framework of youth non-profit organizations. The conclusions presented in the study allow us to eval-uate the activities of youth non-profit organizations as a mechanism for changing the social status of an individual in the stratification structure of society, a channel for vertical social mobility, and prospects for further development of non-profit organizations in this direction.

Officers of the Russian Imperial army as part of the confrontation sides of the Tambov rebellion of 1920–1921

2020 ◽  
pp. 234-244
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Kanishchev
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Soviet Power ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Military Leaders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sufficient Degree ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Military

We consider a new aspect of the well-studied themе, related to objective circumstances and subjective motives for choosing a life position in the Civil war: the entry of former officers of the Russian Imperial army into the ranks of the Soviet or rebel armed forces. First of all, contradic-tions in information about the pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary military service of a se-lected circle of persons are revealed. With a sufficient degree of accuracy, 16 former officers who became the leaders of the suppression of the “Antonovshchina” in 1920–1921 and a maximum of 23 rebel commanders from the ranks of officers of the “old” army are identified. Differences of the social and professional image of the commanders of the opposing sides are established. Among the Soviet commanders, career officers from different classes prevailed, including 5 peasants (only 1 – Russian), of non-Tambov origin, who entered the region no earlier than 1917. On the contrary, among the rebel military leaders, all, except for one tradesman, came from the peasant class (only 3 were not from the Tambov Governorate). However, the loyalty of some former rebel commanders to their political leadership was low. Therefore, the study specially analyzes the “psychology of betrayal” of such people who went over to the side of the Soviet troops. The military leaders of the suppression of the Tambov rebellion, who came from the officer environment, made a choice in favor of Soviet power in 1917–1918 and by 1920 they repeatedly showed loyalty to the “workers’ and peasants’ state”. However, for the time being, this state recognized the devotion of, in principle, alien to it “gold-chasers”. In the 1930s almost all officers who took part in the suppression of the Tambov rebellion became victims of political repression.

Imperial continuities: Irish doctors and the British armed forces, 1922–45

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven O’Connor
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
British Military ◽  
The Social ◽  
Career Advice ◽  
Irish Medical ◽  
Military Services

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Irish doctors led successful careers in the British Empire’s military medical services. Surprisingly, Irish medical connections with the British military were not simply severed once the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom in 1921, as might be expected. Rather, they rapidly grew in the 1920s and 1930s. This chapter asks why British military service continued to prove so popular among Irish doctors, making extensive use of a database of 262 Irish medical officers who served in the British forces between 1922 and 1945. The chapter reveals striking patterns in the social profile of officers, their motives, career success and the peaks and troughs of recruitment. It seems that many Irish medical officers complained that appointments in Irish hospitals were controlled by nepotism and that limited jobs were available. Several Irish publications which dispensed career advice to medical students during the 1930s not merely acknowledged, but actually recommended, opportunities in the British military services in preference to the Irish Army Medical Service - castigated for its poor pay, promotion prospects and pension entitlements. The result was an outflow of Irish medical practitioners beyond the attaining of Irish independence.

scholarly journals PRECARITIZATION AND LABOR SELF-FULFILLMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE:

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliya Kh. Bulatova ◽  
Liliya R. Nizamova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
Labor Structure

Evaluation of the current transformations of the social and labor structure of society is one of the central topics in sociological knowledge. At the present stage, all social structures and institutions are becoming more flexible, mobile and changeable, characterized by instability and insecurity. Labor practices, professional trajectories and careers of young people also become unstable. The attention of an increasing number of scientists is attracted to non-linear youth employment strategies that contribute to the formation of a new “group” in the social structure of modern Russian society - the precariat. This article presents the results of a study of precarization in the youth environment as a consequence of the socio-economic transformations of recent decades. On the basis of semi-structured interviews with unstable busy young people of Kazan (Republic of Tatarstan, Russia), as well as a secondary analysis of sociological and statistical data, factors, motives and consequences of young people choosing precarious employment are considered. It is shown that precarious forms of employment are considered by young people as a temporary measure, consent to such work leaves the possibility to easily and simply refuse it if it does not fit, and the decision on unstable employment without social guarantees can be either forced or voluntary.

scholarly journals Молодѐжь как социальная группа

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 126-129
Author(s):  
А.С. Аутлова
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern Russian

The article describes the characteristics of youth as a special social group, which is distinguished by specific living conditions, work, social behavior and psychology, as well as a system of value orientations. The aim of the study is to analyze the position of young people in the social space of modern Russian society in a theoretical-methodological and empiricalsociological analysis.

scholarly journals The retraining of the servicemen of the armed forces of Ukraine within the framework of the NATO-Ukraine program

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Iryna Avtushenko
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Military Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Military

The reduction and reform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has caused the social issues associated with adapting to the new living conditions and the activities of the servicemen dismissed from the military service to the reserve or retirement. During the period of transition from military life to civilian, many officers needed retraining for gaining new civilian specialties, which required financial support from the state. But the difficult situation in the country did not allow massively invest the budgetary funds needed to solve this issue. That is why the NATO’s support concerning the financing of programs aimed at social adaptation of servicemen dismissed from military service, as well as those included in the plan of dismissal from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, becomes dramatically important. In the years of independence, by means of these programs over 8 thousand servicemen have been retrained. For implementation of programs for the adaptation of servicemen all over the country, the centers for training of servicemen have been set up in the cities. Therefore these centers supported a large number of the dismissed servicemen or those who were to be dismissed, by giving them the opportunity to get a civilian specialty which was in demand in the labor market.

scholarly journals ON THE QUESTION OF THE ATTITUDE OF STUDENTS TO MILITARY SERVICE. TYPOLOGY OF STUDENT YOUTH IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-10
Author(s):  
K.V. Dorofeeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Selective Method ◽  
Military Support ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The Armed Forces are one of the main political institutions of modern Russian society. This article deals with the problem of the contradiction between the growth of the prestige of military service and the slow process of forming a positive attitude of students to it. The relevance of the research is determined by the objective need for military support of the state. As you know, the period of military age covers the category of youth (including students), which means the potential involvement of students in military service, therefore, the study of the characteristics of the relationship of this category to military service is especially important. The goal is to develop the author's typology of student youth by the nature of their attitude to military service, as well as to apply the method of calculating the aggregated index of student youth's attitude to military service. The article reveals the concept of the attitude of students to military service, analyses the level of prestige of military service among students by using the measure of Central tendency, the arithmetic mean. As a result, the types of student youth ("Patriot", "Sofa warrior", "Indifferent", "Negativist") are identified and characterised by the nature of their attitude to military service. Based on the study of this problem, the presence of a negative attitude of students to military service is established. Military service rather does not have a significant prestige among students. The findings of the study apply to students through-out Russia (which is explained by the selective method of selecting units). Thus, students from such cities as Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Volgograd, Kaluga, Ufa, and small cities of the Moscow region participated in the study.

scholarly journals Empirical Types of Social Maturity in Young People

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-280
Author(s):  
Anastasia A. Akbarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Behavioral Activity ◽  
Social Maturity ◽  
Cognitive Value ◽  
The Social

The paper presents the results of an empirical study aimed at the identification of empirical types of social maturity in young people; its relevance is due to the lack of typology of social maturity in modern socio-psychological literature. The study was performed on a sample of young people aged 18 to 30 years old (347 people, including 178 women and 169 men). We assumed that there are various empirical types of social maturity in young people depending on the evaluation of actualized personal and social resources, the orientation of social experiences, value orientations, and behavioral activity. We used methods based on the comprehensive program developed by A. B. Kupreichenko and A. L. Zhuravlev, as well as L. M. Smirnov’s method “Basic Values and Disvalues of Russians”. The aim of this study was to distinguish the main types of social maturity from an integrative position, reflecting the view of this phenomenon as a compound, including not only socially oriented, but also individual psychological components. It is shown that the systematic approach to the study of social maturity allows us to present this phenomenon as a unified socio-psychological construct. The following components are distinguished as components of social maturity analyzed in the study: cognitive, value, emotional and conative ones. Five empirical types of social maturity were found: “ascetic”, “ambitious”, “not actualized”, “asocial”, “socially mature”. The distinguished types of social maturity are differentiated according to the grounds of the social maturity components. In the future, these types can also become the basis for creating methodological tools that diagnose parameters distinguishing subjects with different manifestation and orientation of the social maturity phenomenon.

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