REVIEW: WITTENBERG, E.YA. (2020), SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF AUTHORITIES. RGGU, MOSCOW, RUSSIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-122
Author(s):  
Irina E. Khanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
State University ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Fair Competition ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Theoretical Issues

The monograph submitted for review is the second one in the author’s planned series of three books on the social responsibility of businesses, authorities, and civil society. In 2011, the publishing centre of Russian State University for the Humanities published the first monograph in that series of the author, Social Responsibility of Businesses in the post-Soviet space, in which the large empirical material showed complex factors for the formation of social responsibility of businesses in the post-Soviet countries in the course of business activities in the economic, political, and social spheres. The second work of the author called Social Responsibility of Authorities is a complex work, which presents a critical analysis of the social responsibility of the authorities in post-Soviet Russia for the selection of goals and ways of the country development, for the degree of and price for achieving the goals, and for the quality, results, and impact of implemented system change affecting all spheres of public life. The monograph considers a number of theoretical issues: the genesis and development of the basic concepts for social responsibility of authorities, its criteria and indicators, the causes of irresponsibility of authorities, the boundaries and responsibilities of state institutions, the questions of forming the shared social responsibility in all its subjects (authorities, businesses, and society). The author analyses the social responsibility of the authorities in the field of economic policy (stages and processes of privatisation, creating conditions for fair competition and innovative development), in the modernisation of Russian society (achievements and shortcomings in the fight against poverty, in the formation of the middle class, in evening out excessive social inequalities), and also analyses measures for the development of democracy.

A Failed Environmental Turn? Khrushchev’s Thaw and Nature Protection in Soviet Russia

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Coumel
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
State Committee ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
State University ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Moscow State University

This article aims to identify a “Thaw” in Soviet environmental history. Focusing on the attempts from some actors, above all writers and scholars of the Academy of Sciences to promote an ambitious law at the all-Union level in the second half of the 1950s, it uses new evidences from the central Russian archives to show the existence of an offensive by activists and experts in this field, but also their failure to obtain the creation of a unified state committee of ministerial rank. If the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Nature (VOOP) was sidelined in this battle, the 1960 Law on Nature Protection was significant for its members. It cited the VOOP as the main organ of control in the environmental field, and created an opportunity for new “social organizations” to emerge in the country: the Brigades for Nature Protection (DOP), the first of which was created at Moscow State University.

scholarly journals The Analysis of Students’ Opinions about the Social Responsibility Of Ukrainian Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 527-538
Author(s):  
Kateryna Tryma
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Local Community ◽  
State University ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Civic Universities

Aim. The paper is aimed to investigate the students’ opinion about the social responsibility carried out by higher education institutions (HEIs) in Ukraine. Nowadays social responsibility has become one of the key characteristics of modern HEIs. Ukrainian universities are trying to become 'civic universities', i.e., institutions which contribute to the development of the local community. The students, as key stakeholders of the university activities, also take part in this process. Methods. To investigate the social responsibility of the Ukrainian HEIs, the case study method is used in the present paper: the case of Mariupol State University and its social functions within the city are highlighted. The online survey was applied to investigate the level of students’ awareness of the university social functions and the role played by the university in the local community. Materials published by the university and the results of the survey have been analysed to test the hypothesis that students consider Mariupol State University to be a socially responsible university which cooperates with the local community. Results. The students’ opinion on the social functions carried out by Mariupol State University is that this local university has strong ties with the local community and authorities and perform its social mission. However, the social functions of the university, according to the students, are limited by teaching and research activities. Few students consider social responsibility of the university in a wider context. Conclusion. On the example of the MSU the paper shows that modern universities in Ukraine perform social functions and try to become truly civic universities to contribute to the development of the local communities in cooperation with different stakeholders. Nevertheless, students as a key stakeholder of the university activities still consider social responsibility of the university primarily aimed at teaching and research.

scholarly journals The 2020 Constitutional Reform in the Russian Federation as a Way to Strengthen the Nation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Sergey N. Baburin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Russian Constitution ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article considers the positive changes of the Russian Constitution, implemented during the constitutional reform of 2020, justified the relevance and significance of the constitutional reform of 2020, which for the Russian Federation is an important step towards strengthening the nation as a multinational people of Russia, its unity. The return to the text of the constitution of traditional spiritual and moral values of Russian society, filling with real content of the social character of the modern Russian state is made with the understanding that the nation in Russia is a civilizational union of many peoples. The consolidation of the multi-ethnic people of Russia is considered in the spiritual, moral, social, economic, political and civilizational levels, when the consolidation of cultural unity of modern Russia is carried out at the same time protecting the identity of all peoples and ethnic communities of the Russian Federation. It is concluded that the constitutional reform of 2020 has not removed from the agenda the question of the need for a new Constitution of Russia.

scholarly journals Legal foundations of criminal law against mass riots at the stages of the emergence and development of the Russian centralized state

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-213
Author(s):  
Linar Khabibullin
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Legal Foundations

The article presents the author’s vision of the origin and development of the legal foundations of criminal law countering mass riots. It has been determined that riots have accompanied humanity since its inception. The formation of criminal law mechanisms for countering mass riots has a long and multi-stage path of formation and formation, taking into account the specifics of the development of Russian society and the state. At the stage of the formation of the centralized Russian state, acts with signs of mass disorder belonged to a group of crimes that infringe on the interests of the state. The concept of “raiser” was introduced into the official circulation. These included persons calling or organizing uprisings against the current legitimate government. Further evolution of state institutions, within the framework of the Cathedral Code of 1649, made it possible to single out a group of state crimes, the system of which included acts with signs of mass disorder. In the historical period under consideration, the acts classified as mass disorders by their objective nature under the conditions of the monarchical form of government were primarily aimed at the established state order. The study also points to an inextricable link and similarity in a number of legally significant characteristics of mass riots with extremist activities.

scholarly journals Social inequalities, labor, and health

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 498-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos M. Gomez ◽  
Sônia Maria T. M. de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Entire Range ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Health It ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

This article presents a brief analysis of the social inequalities expressed in the relationship between health and labor. It focuses on the Brazilian context. It begins by approaching the conceptions present in the lines of investigation and intervention in this field of health. It considers an entire range of thinking, from the eminently biological and individual level to an understanding of the relationship between labor and health as a reflection of essentially social processes. The confrontation between conceptual advances, proposals for intervention, and the reality of health for Brazilian workers is the parameter for analyzing the activity of state institutions, companies, and workers' organizations. Based on the current situation outlined in this study, perspectives are identified for urgent and indispensable changes.

The Social Responsibility of the State University

Social Forces ◽  
1923 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 517-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Chase
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
The State ◽  
State University ◽  
The Social

На Материалах «Писем во Власть»

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-280
Author(s):  
Анна Дмитриевна Попова
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
State University ◽  
Soviet Republic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Consciousness

“The Process of Reform during the Era of Perestroika and the Social Consciousness of Russian Society, from ‘Letters to the Authority’ Materials,” by Anna Dmitrievna Popova (Ryazan State University named for S. A. Yesenin): This article analyzes the transformation of Soviet public consciousness during the era of perestroika (restructuring). The authors examined letters which were sent by Soviet citizens to then President of the Russian Soviet Republic and future Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin. In these letters, citizens stated their opinions about the transformation of the Soviet political and economic system during this period. The authors’ analysis of these letters reveals that the mentality of the Soviet populace was strongly influenced by its assessment of perestroika. In this public consciousness, citizens placed a large emphasis on the traditional Soviet values of equality, justice, and labor, which defined public opinions about the transformation of Soviet society during perestroika. Soviet citizens demanded that the state deal with the problem of wide-ranging privileges afforded to officials of the Communist Party, while citizens negatively estimated the freedoms in spiritual life accorded to them by the state.

scholarly journals Transformational processes and modernization of social structure in post-soviet Russia

2005 ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Sava Zivanov
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Great Degree ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Soviet Russia

The paper presents several basic arguments which corroborate the researches of the Russian sociologist Zinaida Golenkova aabout transformational processes in postsoviet Russia, specially about the processes which led to the changes in the social structure of the Russian society. The author believes, relying also on the researches of other Russian scientists, that the transformation of the post-soviet Russian society occurs within the historical type which is called "the social engineering". Unlike the other two types of historical transformation ("modification" within a specific type of social relations and the changes created in "the bourgeois-democratic revolutions"), "the social engineering" implies a specific violation of the historical reality of a society. In author's opinion, "the social engineering" is characteristic both for the revolutionary transformation of Russia in 1917 and for its transformation in the last decade of the 20th century. Namely, the transformations realized in Russia in the last decade of the 20th century to a great degree represent "social engineering", because they are realized with the help of the instruments of political power, by the forceful reforms from the top, in order to form the social-economic structure according to the models which were historically created in significantly different social environments. In that sense, the post-soviet transformation of the Russian society could be designated as a state of social chaos. Such a state to a great degree created a specific social system, which is argu-mentatively discussed in the research studies of Z. Golenkova.

scholarly journals The future of society according to future Russian lawyers

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-42
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Ushkin ◽  
Ekaterina A. Koval
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Subjective Wellbeing ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
State University ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Normative Expectations ◽  
High Level

This article shows that studying the views of future Russian lawyers on the projective future of society is a relevant development, since this particular socio-professional group does not only put forward certain demands in regards to projective subjective social wellbeing, but also possesses the lawmaking potential necessary for the transformation and normative engineering of Russian society. The article analyzes the results of the author’s own research, conducted in 2016 in 12 cities of Russia (based on All- Russian State University of Justice and its subsidiaries). According to the author, the results of research in the field reveal a relatively high level of subjective wellbeing registered among the respondents, with their core values being justice, freedom, upholding law and order, public initiative. In order to measure normative expectations, those surveyed were offered to characterize three models of a supposed society using an array of parameters: “the best society” (utopian), “a bad society” (dystopian) and “a good society” (one that’s attainable and suitable for life and personal growth). As a result, certain projective requirement indexes were obtained for implementing these models in a future society. It came as somewhat of a surprise that, in spite of the widespread belief that the value orientations of modern youth have a “consumer” nature to them, material wellbeing turned out to be far from the most significant parameter. The highest values were shown by indexes which correlated with such virtues as justice, equality and lawfulness, which speaks to their considerable influence on the respondents’ evaluation of their subjective wellbeing. The authors also noticed a fundamental difference when it comes to future Russian lawyers’ thoughts on the paths towards attaining justice. The indexes for a society constantly subject to reform and a conservative society were practically on the same level. This indirectly points to the existence of a deeply rooted divide when it comes to values, indicating that people are looking into the future with uncertainty, which is proven by a multitude of studies done by other authors.

НЕКОТОРЫЕ ПОДХОДЫ К ИЗУЧЕНИЮ И УРЕГУЛИРОВАНИЮ КОНФЛИКТОВ

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
N. D. Sorokina
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Order ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Pragmatic Turn ◽  
Agonistic Pluralism

The article is devoted to the analysis of some, including new, approaches to the study and settlement of conflicts. There are considered the following approaches: the pragmatic turn; the concept of agonistic pluralism; system analysis. The representatives of the pragmatic turn put forward the concept of «cities» as a means of settling conflicts and a mechanism for reaching compliance. The author believes, that it is not possible to resolve this kind of conflicts in the paradigm of a pragmatic turn, at least in the short term. The concept of agonistic pluralism offers its own way of resolving and settling conflicts. For this, antagonism with its insoluble contradictions is necessary to turn agonism. This transformation will mean treating the enemy not as an enemy, but as an opponent. Thus, it is possible to achieve a conflictual consensus. However, in reality, such a transformation is difficult to achieve because social contradictions are exacerbated. The systemic approach allows us to study conflicts from the perspective of improving or worsening the existing social order. The settlement of conflicts is possible in the Russian society. But it is necessary to achieve the consent of different political forces. The fundamental principles of the existence of the Russian state and society are the basis of this consent. The author calls the information war as external obstacles to achieving consensus, to which Russia is drawn; as internal — a strong social stratification, the social policy of the state, the lack of dialogue between different political forces.

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