scholarly journals Propensity for social surfing among the Russian youth: Regional specificity

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 131-163
Author(s):  
I. A. Simonova ◽  
O. V. Kruzhkova ◽  
I. V. Vorobyeva
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Space ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Male Model ◽  
Social Topology

Introduction. The phenomenon of social surfing, as a specific mobility strategy, largely determines the life of Y and Z generations, and creates an ambiguous context in terms of threats and opportunities for the formation of life trajectories of Russian youth. This actualised the search for theoretical and methodological foundations of understanding and practical tools for assessing the state of this problem, which, in turn, made it possible to scale this phenomenon in the context of the modern youth environment in Russia.The aim of the present research was to identify the degree of loyalty and potential tendency to use the “social surfing” strategy by the representatives of young people in Russian regions, taking into account the assessment of the approval of gender models of this behaviour strategy.Research methodology, methods and techniques. The methodological framework for describing the phenomenon of social surfing is based on the social topology of M. Castells, the het-erological concept of the rhizome by J. Deleuze and F. Guattari, the philosophy of mobility by J. Urry, Z. Bauman, U. Beck, the theory of transitivity (E. M. Dubovskaya, T. D. Martsinkovskaya, E. A. Kiselev), the studies of the specifics of youth identity and self-realisation in social space (M. C. Schippers, N. Ziegler, M. Loreto Martmez, P. Cumsille, A. K. Vikulov, T. V. Plotnikova and others) and the modern concepts of happiness (M. Argyll, D. A. Leontiev, A. L. Zhuravlev and others) The study was conducted in different regions of Russia (Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Glazov) using psychodiagnostic methodology “Propensity to social surfing of young people” developed by the authors. The study involved young people (N = 510 people aged 18-27 years old, among them female - 68 %, male - 32 %).Results and scientific novelty. It was found that 11.2 % of young men and women approve of social surfing, evaluate its behavioural model as positive and allow similar options for choosing their own life trajectory. Comparative analysis revealed significant differences in loyalty to the social surfing strategy among young people living in different regions of the Russian Federation: the greatest loyalty was manifested by the young residents of Ekaterinburg, Glazov, and Kazan, while the residents of Chelyabinsk predominantly demonstrated a negative attitude to this strategy. The respondents showed an unequal attitude towards male and female social surfing models: with a relatively condescending attitude towards the male model, social surfing of women is frowned upon and is associated with weakness and statement. Meanwhile, the approval of the male model of social surfing creates certain risks of marginalisation and value-semantic anomie among young people.The practical significance of the conducted research is due to the potential possibilities of using the data obtained for choosing approaches to work with young people in the conditions of their high mobility, as well as for creating educational and professional trajectories.

URBAN FOOTBALL PERFORMANCES: PLAYING FOR THE NEIGHBOURHOOD IN SENEGAL, 1950s–2000s

Africa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susann Baller
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Social Space ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTIn Senegal, neighbourhood football teams are more popular than teams in the national football league. The so-called navétanes teams were first created in the 1950s. Since the early 1970s, they have competed in local, regional and national neighbourhood championships. This article considers the history of these clubs and their championships by focusing on the city of Dakar and its fast-growing suburbs, Pikine and Guédiawaye. Research on the navétanes allows an exploration of the social and cultural history of the neighbourhoods from the actor-centred perspective of urban youth. The history of the navétanes reflects the complex interrelations between young people, the city and the state. The performative act of football – on and beyond the pitch, by players, fans and organizers – constitutes the neighbourhood as a social space in a context where the state fails to provide sufficient infrastructure and is often contested. The navétanes clubs and championships demonstrate how young people have experienced and imagined their neighbourhoods in different local-level ways, while at the same time interconnecting them with other social spaces, such as the ‘city’, the ‘nation’ and ‘the world’.

scholarly journals Sociology of Poverty and Sociological Assessment of the Poverty Alleviation Program

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-48
Author(s):  
A. Ya. Bolshunov ◽  
A. G. Tyuriko
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Subsistence Minimum ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Topology

Officially, the poverty line in Russia is tied to the subsistence minimum but from the sociological point of view, its linkage to the subsistence minimum is arbitrary. The subject of the research is social boundaries, social space of poverty. The purpose of the research was to formulate the principles of an approach to overcoming poverty as a social phenomenon. The paper attempts to outline the social space of poverty as an attribute (stigma) by which a person is placed in a specific exclusion space that forms the specific ethos of poverty and the poor man’s habitus preventing any attempts to climb out of poverty. Belonging to this space institutionalizes the poor as a “kind of people”, which is reflected in specific mechanisms of referencing and self-referencing of poverty expressed in the life-purpose deficits. “Combating poverty” implies the creation of participation institutions through which relations and processes of social differentiation, social participation and reference are withdrawn from the dictate of economic factors. It is concluded that the poverty alleviation program should take into account the social limology of poverty and include the development of participation practices and institutions that exclude the stigmatization of poverty and the transformation of the poor into the “kind of people”. Such institutions should provide the poor with ample opportunities to participate in the formation of elites (professional, intellectual, and political). It is particularly important that children, teenagers and young people have access to such practices and institutions because each generation produces and reproduces the “social topology” in which poverty forms a specific “exclusion space”.

scholarly journals FACTORS OF STUDENT MIGRATION: ON THE EXAMPLE OF VLADIVOSTOK

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-213
Author(s):  
Tatiana A. KRUPA
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Dominant Factor ◽  
Student Migration ◽  
The Social ◽  
Central Regions ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The City

Introduction. The article deals with the main trends of youth migration in Vladivostok. In the social space of Vladivostok, we can note the trend of increasing the volume of migration of young people to the city, expanding the geography of students who came to study. In the city there are educational institutions where you can get the specialty necessary for the modern labor market and in search of a prestigious job to migrate to the central regions of the country, or to emigrate abroad. Vladivostok is not only a point of attraction for young people, but also a transit point for moving to other cities and states. The relevance of the research is explained by the existing problem of under-accounting of factors of student migration in modern science. The object of study was the student youth studying in Vladivostok. The subject is factors of student migration in the social space of Vladivostok.Methods. The stated problem was studied by analyzing the pilot study in student groups. The aim of the work is to study the migration intentions of students. The study is based on the idea of the standard of living in the region / country as the dominant factor of youth mobility.Results. Factors of student migration were analyzed in five aspects: identification of factors of satisfaction with the standard of living in the Russian Federation; intentions to leave the country abroad; intentions to migrate within the country – from peripheral regions to central; factors of satisfaction with the standard of living in Primorsky Krai; factors of attractiveness of Vladivostok for young people.Conclusions. Almost half of the young people surveyed would like to leave Primorye and go to the central regions of the country or abroad. 

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.

“Accidental Intimacies”: Reconsidering Bodily Encounters Between Police and Young People Who Use Drugs

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Selfridge ◽  
Lisa Mitchell ◽  
Alissa Greer ◽  
Scott Macdonald ◽  
Bernie Pauly
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
People Who Inject Drugs ◽  
Social Space ◽  
People Who Use Drugs ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Incremental Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Social Productivity ◽  
Perceptions Of Police

Youth who use drugs (YWUD) are likely to encounter the police and experience victimization within those encounters. Negative experiences of police among youth can dramatically undermine youths’ trust in police, making them unlikely to ask for help when they need it. In this article, we use Rance and Fraser’s concept of “accidental intimacies” between staff and people who inject drugs arising in encounters within supervised consumption sites. Their exploration of Sarah Ahmed’s work on the social productivity of emotions argues that new subjectivities that counter or transform stigma and shame surrounding drug use can occur from the space between individuals. For Ahmed “emotions do things, and work to align individuals with collectives—[linking] bodily space with social space—through the very intensity of their attachments.” During 2017–2018, 38 youth (aged 16–30 years) who use drugs in three cities in British Columbia, Canada, were interviewed to explore their encounters (both positive and negative) with police and how these influenced their perceptions of police. In this article, we assert that the dynamic of “we” and “them,” of the YWUD and police, is constituted in part through the powerful emotions created and confirmed by negative bodily encounters where the bodies of youth and police collide through physical and/or verbal contact. The repetition of emotions and objectification through stigma within their communities force some youth to repeatedly confront harmful subjectivities. Rance and Fraser’s work provides possibilities for shifting these stigmatizing subjectivities. For change to occur, addressing the historical and present realities that impact YWUD will help facilitate and enhance more respectful communication and interactions between YWUD and police. Bodily encounters may also present opportunities for both YWUD and police to reflect on the subjectivities that reinforce and are shaped by their negative interactions with one another. Incremental change may be possible as we find new meanings in youths’ understanding of and compassion for police and their work.

scholarly journals Social singularity and liminality as the factors of modern youth life

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-429
Author(s):  
Olga V. Munina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Behavioral Strategies ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The Social

Youth is a social group reproducing both positive experience and negative trends in social transformations. Modern society, in turn, is characterized by complex, contradictory and multidirectional trends. A high proportion of risk and uncertainty gives rise to the social space collapse phenomenon and the of the digital environment expansion up to the formation of the digital reality, leading to the fact that virtual practices are formed alongside real behavioral strategies. The growing digitization and dating of the living space of a modern person actualizes the problem of young people staying in it and requires the analysis of the factors characterizing the life of young people, liminality and singularity being worth noting, first of all. The specific living conditions determine the young people’s consciousness characteristics, their social qualities transition from one into another, mutually complement each other and condition their social activity in the course of development. The latter, filling everyday life as much as possible, form its characteristic ways, channels and individuals’ and social groups’ self-presentation mechanisms.

scholarly journals The social topology of science in national and transnational contexts: the case of social sciences

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
Ilona G. Nedelevskaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Topology ◽  
Scientific Fields

The article explores the possibilities of application P. Bourdieu’s social topology in the studying of inequality in science in national and transnational contexts. It is argued that in the conditions of globalising science, discussions about its egalitarianism, which began approximately in the middle of the last century, are moving beyond national borders. For the purposes of studying global inequality in science, scholars often apply the theoretical frameworks of world-systems analysis, neo-institutionalism, and the theory of global governance. However, these theories often lead to reductionism which ignores the symbolic dimension of scientific activity. The article suggests reassessing the heuristic potentiality of P. Bourdieu’s social topology, which mitigates the mentioned drawback of other theories. The article aims to demonstrate the relevance of this theoretical framework for the study of inequality in different scales of scientific activity due to the fact that the French sociologist focused mainly on national academic systems. The article defines the general provisions of P. Bourdieu’s topological concept of the field and the units of the social order of the scientific field. It also demonstrates the role of various forms of capital in determining the structure of social space. Based on the case of social sciences, the article explores the formation of scientific fields, their interaction with other fields, and their structure in different scales. The structure of the scientific field on the national scale can be defined as a dichotomy of dominant – dominated or centre – periphery. On the transnational scale, this dichotomy is also relevant but it is represented by national fields. Among them, the dominant position is occupied by the United States and Great Britain, which have the largest amount of symbolic power. The structure of the transnational scientific space, however, is more complex and includes overlapping fields of national, regional and more global dimensions. The article argued that applying the theoretical framework of the field to the study of the transnational scientific field will remain tied to the definition and explanation of the peculiarities and the interaction of national scientific fields as long as national states keep their institutional boundaries in scientific activity.

Understanding Justice: Analyzing Focus Group Results Using the Example of Student Youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
A. Chernyaeva ◽  
N. Shestakova ◽  
D. Yurkov
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Group Method ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Value Perception ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One

The appeal to the study of the concept of "justice" is due to several reasons: the ambiguity of the concept itself, its evolution in various socio-cultural contexts, the social need for a reflexive analysis of justice itself as a value that is being transformed in the process of social change, realized by researchers, justice has a special meaning for the self-determination of young people, who, in the process of upbringing, assimilated the transmitted values of an industrial society, but right now in society there are changes in morality, value attitudes, the system of ideals and norms, and an important place in this foundation should be given to "justice" as a category of moral, legal and socio-political. In this regard, the phenomenon of justice requires study and reflective analysis. Of particular interest is the study of the following questions: How does justice fit into the new structure of social space? Doesn't this concept of integrity and universality lose? Does society retain the value perception of justice in its "traditional" form, or is there a value erosion, as a result of which value actually disappears, turning into a simulacrum? The authors made an attempt to record the dynamics of the meanings of justice at different stages of social development, and also, through the focus group method, to establish that the concept of justice among young people, on the one hand, has not yet been fully reflected, but at the same time is an element of their value system, The “new” understanding of justice among young people is associated with the idea of the existence of conditions that provide an opportunity for self-realization for everyone, the disclosure of a person's inner resources. Young people consider the aspect of caring for people with disabilities, disabled, unemployed to be important in defining justice.

scholarly journals Youth organization "Plast" in the context of problems of application of Christian aspects in the process of activity of youth societies

2008 ◽  
pp. 147-154
Author(s):  
O.M. Tuyeshyn
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social World ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Drinking Alcohol ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Youth Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

Today in Ukraine there is an acute problem of the spiritual alienation of a certain part of the younger generation from their people, their faith and traditions, which have developed over the centuries, from established moral principles, in particular, regarding personal self-determination in the social world. In turn, such confusion and disorientation in the social space leads to an aggravation of the relationship between the same outside world and the system of inner values ​​of the young man. Moreover, a hypertrophied and distorted understanding of reality entails a number of problems that often take the form of a pronounced social evil. For example, today our country is one of the leading places in Europe for the spread of AIDS. According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, every week, several dozen Ukrainians turn out to be HIV-positive when submitting appropriate tests. It is also hard to say about the spread of such social ills as drug addiction, drunkenness (striking the number of young people being treated today for alcohol abuse in drug dispensaries, and not caused by drinking alcohol, but by the widely publicized beer).

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