In the article, the author considers modern concepts and theories of lobbying, interpretations of lobbying in the context of the political process. In the article the author highlights the main criteria of lobbying. The importance of interest groups influencing the political process is analyzed. The author in the article analyzes the general theoretical concepts of the analysis of the institution of lobbying: group theory, pluralistic theory and lobbying, corporatist theory, political network theory. In the article, the author states that lobbying in modern conditions has a significant potential for political or corporate compromise, lobbying is a highly effective tool for realizing the political interests of influence groups, allowing you to achieve your goals. Lobbying has coalition potential, sometimes integrating different political actors with different positions, but uniting under the influence of circumstances to achieve tactical goals.
The article identifies the problem of the incompleteness of the process of determining the subject field of such a complex direction of scientific research in the framework of political science as regional political studies. The specifics of the domestic regional political researches, its formation in the 1990s and the current stage of development are particularly noted. The author proposes to develop the interdisciplinarity of regional political studies and maintain the existing trend towards their subject cross-border nature.
The article analyzes the value orientations of the modern generation of Russian youth, in particular, the features of moral aspects based on patriotism. In the course of the analysis of such a sociological category as youth, a generational approach was used, which distinguishes a number of generations that differ from each other in value orientations, formed under the influence of the characteristics of life in various historical conditions. Based on extensive empirical material, the authors determine the most important indicators, according to which a comparative analysis of the behavioral motives of the studied generations of young people was carried out.
The article actualizes the problem of strengthening the tendency of students to use manipulations in communication under the influence of negative factors of modern realities of society. The typical types of manipulative behavior of students in relation to the teacher are systematized. The conclusion is made about the importance of taking into account the possibilities of manipulative behavior of students in the professional training of teachers.
The article examines international discourse on identifying the challenges of cyberspace in the context of new socio-political changes, emphasizing the uncertainty in regulatory approaches to the application of the new technologies. The author applies the comparative-political method to analyze the theoretical aspects of cybersecurity as an integral part of national and international security. As a conclusion, necessary measures are justified.
At present, there are crisis trends in the educational sphere associated with the gap between the social demand for the training of highly qualified specialists and the trends in the formation of quasi-specialists at the exit from higher educational institutions. This indicates the presence of internal contradictions in the education system that determine the violation of its functionality.
The relevance of the study of violations in the educational system is directly determined by the social significance of effective education and the need to determine the causes and grounds of its functional disorders.
The purpose of the study is to identify the main social contradictions that determine the violation of the functionality of the education system.
The results of the study include the identification of a number of key contradictions of the modern education system. The first contradiction is related to the excessive bureaucratization of the educational system. In this regard, over time, there is a gap between macro and micro levels in the educational process, since students and teachers in their daily activities, interaction with each other, create their own social reality, which is dominated by a certain system of values relevant to them, which can counterbalance what state policy imposes in the sphere of education, and that thus leads to functional contradictions in modern Russian education. Growing, functional contradictions act as explicit signs of a symbolic struggle that flares up between agents who legitimately distribute symbolic capital, on the one hand, and those agents, on the other hand, who see an opportunity to distribute forces in the social field of the educational environment differently. The study provides a detailed analysis of these contradictions and substantiates the need for further research activities aimed at identifying the internal logic of the functional violation of the educational system and ways to overcome existing contradictions.
The article deals with the problem of determining the possibilities and limits of using the experience of the Russian state in the field of formation and implementation of information policy in the pre-revolutionary and Soviet periods in modern conditions. It is noted that the activity in the information sphere itself is not something new for the centuries-old national statehood, at the same time, in concrete historical conditions, it has formal and substantive features. Taking into account the latter is extremely necessary when trying to use the past experience of implementing information policy at the present time.
