scholarly journals Social mechanisms for countering corruption in the digital society’s youth environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
M. V. Kibakin ◽  
G. G. Korablev
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Corruption Prevention

The need to study the specifics of the phenomenon of corruption and anti-corruption measures in a digital society has been substantiated in the article. Based on the analysis of legislation, a sociological interpretation of the concepts of corruption, corruption prevention, indicators of corruption practices, and anti-corruption mechanisms is carried out. Each concept is presented both in its essential form and as a set of social parameters to be studied. The results of the analysis of the source base on anti-corruption issues and characteristics of the digital society have been presented. Information technology and information and communication indicators of social diagnostics of digital society problems have been described separately. The characteristic of sociological research conducted by the authors has been given and also the results of ranking and of determining the weight characteristics of such anti-corruption mechanisms have been outlined, as: the inevitability of responsibility for corruption offenses, publicity and openness of activities of state bodies and bodies of local self-government, implementation of the principles of “legality” and “recognition, maintenance and protection of fundamental human and civil rights and freedoms in Russia”, the integrated use of political, organizational, awareness-raising, socio-economic, legal, special and other measures, priority application of measures to prevent corruption, creating attitudes among the population not to accept corrupt actions as a way to solve their problems, forming a legal consciousness among young people that rejects corruption as an acceptable form of behavior and acceptable social practice for achieving success in life, cooperation between the state and civil society institutions, international organizations and individuals, development of digital technologies and virtual services in the system of corruption prevention, training and training of personnel in the field of theory and practice of corruption prevention, creation of public councils under the authorities with the participation of representatives of civil society, public opinion leaders, scientists, artists to develop measures to prevent corruption. Priority scientific problems, the development of which can increase the effectiveness of social mechanisms used to prevent corruption among young people, have been explained by the authors: development of legal anti-corruption foundations, research of socio-psychological methods of forming students’ legal awareness, conceptualization of scientific data on the use of digital technologies for social development.

scholarly journals Museums of the Tyumen Region in a Digital Society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.G. Skulmovskaya ◽  
A.A. Nikiforova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Spatial Diversity ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Demographic Group

In recent decades, much attention has been paid to the study of leisure and analysis of the theory and practice of cultural and leisure activities of young people. This type of research contributes to improving the methodology of cultural and leisure activities in the youth environment. Interest in the problems of young people from the national philosophy, sociology, demography, psychology and pedagogy is constant and stable. Social and philosophical problems of young people as an important demographic group of society, aspects of their self-development and self-realization in the field of leisure have become the subject field of domestic and foreign scientists’ research. In any country, culture museum institutions are centers of selection, attribution, preservation and display of material and spiritual heritage. They are therefore immeasurably important for the of historical consciousness and formation of a nation’s moral and aesthetic positions. Complex social processes taking place in modern Russia actualize a number of problems for cultural institutions, including museums, aimed at the need to understand new realities. Changes taking place in the world increase the cultural and spatial diversity of modern society thanks to digital technologies, which requires a different view of the cultural heritage, as well as a re-evaluation of moral values and the search for new ideals. The research methodology is based on scientific papers related to the study of leisure as a social phenomenon, youth as a special socio-demographic group, and the museum as a specific socio-cultural institution. Theoretical and general logical methods were used in the research process: analysis, synthesis, classification, analogy, generalization, as well as empirical methods (document analysis, questionnaire survey). Various museum events of educational and educational orientation, held in institutions, contribute to improving the effectiveness of communication activities of museums. New methods of interaction with visitors, the use of modern digital technologies to form their diversity are being actively introduced into the activities of Russian museums. All this allows us to say that modern museums are at the stage of active modernization of techniques and methods for implementing social and cultural activities. The museum is interested in finding new forms, methods and methods of working with young people, children and adolescents, primarily related to personal development. In this regard, the Museum is an important institution for the socialization of the younger generation. In the conditions of digitalization, taking in new achievements of scientific and technical progress, being on the threshold of becoming a dynamically developing branch of science, art, business and culture in general, the museum becomes more flexible and mobile thanks to the use of information technologies. The fact that museums still serve as a place of leisure for a large number of people allows us to regularly conduct sociological research aimed at identifying the attitude of visitors, and, first of all, young people, on the problems of development and promotion of museums. Keywords: museums, leisure, tourism, youth, new forms of museum activity, digitalization

scholarly journals Digital sociology for exploring digital society

2021 ◽  
pp. 250-259
Author(s):  
Daria E. Dobrinskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Sociological Practice ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Big Data Technologies ◽  
The Individual

The advent of the digital age has become a serious challenge for researchers in various fields of scientific knowledge. Among others, this refers to sociology, which tried to give an adequate answer to the question of how the world is changing. The purpose of this article is to outline the contours of a new sociological field — digital sociology, which has been actively developing in recent years. The article provides an overview of Russian and international studies that have contributed to the formation of the scope of research and research objectives of digital sociology. It focuses on digital society, which appears due to the development and implementation of modern technological infrastructure represented by key digital technologies (communication networks, big data technologies, algorithms and complex algorithmic systems, platforms, artificial intelligence technologies, cloud computing, augmented and virtual reality technologies, etc.). This extremely complex infrastructure has a decisive influence on the emergence of new social practices, on identity, on the everyday life of both the individual and society as a whole. Digital sociology aims to theorize critically about digitalization, datafication, algorithmization, and platformization, and to determine the social implications of these processes. Moreover, digital sociology offers a range of methodological techniques and tools based on digital technologies that provide new possibilities for quantitative and qualitative sociological research. Digital sociology is also seen as a professional sociological practice which includes teaching the discipline, carrying out scientific communications, and sharing the results of sociologists’ scientific work.

scholarly journals TOLERANCE AS A SUBJECT OF ANTHROPOLOGY STUDY

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1(35)) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Abdirashid Mamasidikovich Mirzakhmedov ◽  
Khurshid Abdirashidovich Mirzakhmedov ◽  
Nasiba Alizhanovna Abdukhalikova
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Young People ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
A Value

The article analyzes tolerance as a value of civil society, consisting of liberal and conservative cultural values. On the basis of sociological research of scientists, the socio-legal, ethical and aesthetic peculiarities of tolerance in Central Asia have been identified. According to the authors, the tradition of tolerance has not only a legal, but also a moral originality, which characterizes intolerance towards the dissemination of values among young people that are contrary to the norms of national culture.

scholarly journals CIVILIZATIONAL IDENTITY OF RUSSIAN STUDENT YOUTH IN A DIGITAL SOCIETY

2020 ◽  
pp. 160-166
Author(s):  
V. V. Maximov ◽  
E. A. Malakhova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Young People ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Statistical Connection

The modern concept of civilization, processes of civilizational identification and identity on the basis of allocation of basic values have been considered. Traditional spiritual and moral values of Russian population have been studied. Methodological and methodical issues of sociological diagnostics of civilizational identity of Russian students have been revealed. Some results of the author’s sociological research with presentation of a comparative assessment of the orientation of young people on the values of the Russian civilization have been adduced. On the basis of comparative analysis, the description of social constructs (patterns) of values of the Russian civilization has been given, the data on the statistical connection of the civilizational identity of students and their integration into virtual forms of social interaction have been presented. The measures to improve the conditions of the process of civilizational identification of Russian students and to include them in the process of digitalization of society have been substantiated.

scholarly journals Dialogue and social participation in the context of education and development of youth in Poland

Family Forum ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 193-210
Author(s):  
Monika Podkowińska ◽  
Rafał Boguszewski ◽  
Iwona Błaszczak
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Civic Involvement ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
Education And Development

Background: The development of civil society is based on dialogue and participation. Young people are characterized by low interest in social activity and building a civil society, therefore it seems crucial to look at what education for participation looks like. Objectives: The authors considered the issue of dialogue and social participation in the context of education and development of young Poles. The authors drew attention to the forms and importance of civic dialogue, as well as diagnosed the goals, functions and deficits of civic education. Methodology: The topic was presented on the basis of the literature on the subject, the results of sociological research and hard data on the forms and scale of civic involvement in Poland, especially in Warsaw. Data analysis in the form of desk research was used. Results: Research by CBOS and KBPN shows that only 40% of young people who could take part in the 2018 elections for the first time in their lives intended to exercise their right. Also in the parliamentary elections in 2019, the youngest eligible respondents voted least frequently. Young Poles significantly less often than adults in general show involvement in the affairs of the local community, and are also characterized by an above-average lack of trust in others and increasing individualism. Conclusions: Civic involvement of young Poles and their participation in building a civic society are low and are accompanied by a high level of individualism combined with a lack of trust in others. Therefore, a more effective education for participation seems to be of key importance. Examples of good practice in this area, although still carried out on a small scale, are classes conducted for students in the field of public transport and tools for social participation developed and used by some local governments, such as the Civic Budget or Local Initiative.  

The Importance of Context in Thinking About Crime‐Preventing Neurointerventions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Matravers
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Justice Theory ◽  
Argument Proceeds ◽  
Current Practices

This chapter argues that neurointerventions, whether in criminal justice or in any other social practice, need to be understood, and can only be evaluated, in light of the context provided by the relevant practice. In the case of criminal justice, the meaning and nature of the practice is contested and so the evaluation of proposed neurointerventions must be preceded by substantive argument about its justification. The chapter considers the retributive context of much criminal justice theory and practice before noting the continued existence—and indeed renaissance—of rehabilitative features of that practice. The argument proceeds by showing that neither retributive considerations, such as proportionality, nor an appeal to independent moral values, such as dignity, can in themselves guide us in deciding on the justification of neurointerventions. It also raises the question of whether, in evaluating alternatives to current practices, we should take as our baseline what we currently do or what we would ideally do in ideal circumstances.

Domestic Colonies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Arneil
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
The State ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Peter Kropotkin

Colonization is generally defined as a process by which states settle and dominate foreign lands or peoples. Thus, modern colonies are assumed to be outside Europe and the colonized non-European. This volume contends such definitions of the colony, the colonized, and colonization need to be fundamentally rethought in light of hundreds of ‘domestic colonies’ proposed and/or created by governments and civil society organizations initially within Europe in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries and then beyond. The three categories of domestic colonies in this book are labour colonies for the idle poor, farm colonies for the mentally ill, and disabled and utopian colonies for racial, religious, and political minorities. All of these domestic colonies were justified by an ideology of domestic colonialism characterized by three principles: segregation, agrarian labour, improvement, through which, in the case of labour and farm colonies, the ‘idle’, ‘irrational’, and/or custom-bound would be transformed into ‘industrious and rational’ citizens while creating revenues for the state to maintain such populations. Utopian colonies needed segregation from society so their members could find freedom, work the land, and challenge the prevailing norms of the society around them. Defended by some of the leading progressive thinkers of the period, including Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Kropotkin, Robert Owen, Tommy Douglas, and Booker T. Washington, the turn inward to colony not only provides a new lens with which to understand the scope of colonization and colonialism in modern history but a critically important way to distinguish ‘the colonial’ from ‘the imperial’ in Western political theory and practice.

A Materialist Basis for Planning Theory and Practice: Comments on the Papers by Roweis and by Forester

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Jensen-Butler
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Qualitative Change ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Planning Practice ◽  
Base Analysis ◽  
Epistemological Position

Analysis of the practice of planning is increasingly being used to develop planning theory, The papers by Roweis and Forester in the second issue of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space base analysis of planning practice on hermeneutic, linguistic, and phenomenological approaches, as an alternative to the technical -rational approach to planning theory, In the present paper, I argue that the approaches adopted by these two authors create more problems than they solve, and a critique of Roweis's and Forester's theoretical ideas is made, It is argued that these approaches rest upon idealist ontological assumptions, rendering explanation of qualitative change (development) impossible. Discussion of Giddens's concept of structuration and of the negative consequences for scientific explanation of Habermas's epistemological position is presented, as both approaches are used by Roweis and Forester. Criticism is also made of the separation of territorial relations from relations of substance. Finally, the serious consequences of their approaches for scientific and social practice are outlined. I conclude that this type of approach cannot provide a satisfactory basis for planning theory, and furthermore, that the approach is inherently conservative. Some ideas arc presented concerning planning theory based on materialist ontological foundations.

Generational Change in Chinese Journalism: Developing Mannheim’s Theory of Generations for Contemporary Social Conditions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Unique Combination ◽  
Generational Change ◽  
Generational Theory ◽  
Original Theory ◽  
The Mainland Of China ◽  
And Shifts

Abstract This article develops Karl Mannheim’s theory of generations as a tool to analyze the profound changes that journalism is experiencing in the mainland of China. The article begins with a discussion of generational theory. It demonstrates that the development of critical journalism that occurred in the late 1990s and early 2000s was the result of a unique combination of circumstances. A range of factors, including the introduction of digital technologies and shifts in the political atmosphere, have restricted that kind of journalism. Young people entering journalism today confront different circumstances and their resultant views, as well as their journalistic activities, are significantly different, and less engaged, than those of their seniors. The article concludes by discussing the theoretical modifications which are essential to make the original theory more suitable for contemporary conditions.

The Rise of Digital Repression

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Feldstein
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
The World ◽  
Dna Collection ◽  
Opposition Movements ◽  
Mass Surveillance

This book documents the rise of digital repression—how governments are deploying new technologies to counter dissent, maintain political control, and ensure regime survival. The emergence of varied digital technologies is bringing new dimensions to political repression. At its core, the expanding use of digital repression reflects a fairly simple motivation: states are seeking and finding new ways to control, manipulate, surveil, or disrupt real or perceived threats. This book investigates the goals, motivations, and drivers of digital repression. It presents case studies in Thailand, the Philippines, and Ethiopia, highlighting how governments pursue digital strategies based on a range of factors: ongoing levels of repression, leadership, state capacity, and technological development. But a basic political motive—how to preserve and sustain political incumbency—remains a principal explanation for their use. The international community is already seeing glimpses of what the frontiers of repression look like, such as in China, where authorities have brought together mass surveillance, online censorship, DNA collection, and artificial intelligence to enforce their rule in Xinjiang. Many of these trends are going global. This has major implications for democratic governments and civil society activists around the world. The book also presents innovative ideas and strategies for civil society and opposition movements to respond to the digital autocratic wave.

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