Article Category: SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCES


The Russian education system, while declaring the importance of forming a comprehensively developed personality, does not imply that young people are willing to give birth and raise children, ensure the all-round development of them, and also take responsibility for this. The formation of this component of personality today is attributed […]

Bagirova A. P., Chereshova S. V., Zolotnitskaya L. V. Possibilities ...


The article discusses the demographic potential of the female population of Russia. The authors identify objective and subjective factors for its assessment. The first group includes the dynamics of the Russian female population, fertility and marriage rates. The second is the reproductive and marital attitudes of modern Russian women. The […]

Sigareva E. P., Sivoplyasova S. Yu. Objective and subjective factors ...


The article examines the process of transformation of family policy in the USSR in 1936—1955. Based on documentary and statistical sources, it was concluded that utopian ideas and authoritarian methods of state management of families during the designated historical period had a negative impact on the formation of the family […]

Khasbulatova O. A., Smirnova I. N. Family policy in the ...



This article aims to compare fertility, first age at marriage, family planning, and contraceptive use in Central Asia and North Africa. Factors such as education level, access to contraceptives, religious beliefs, and demand for family planning were analyzed. Rural areas have lower fertility rates than urban areas. In Egypt, the […]

Mohammed Y. A. Fertility, marriage age, and contraceptive use in ...


The problem of ending a sports career in the perception of female athletes involved in elite sport is explored. Firstly, the article is based on the conceptual model of adaptation to new conditions of life outside sports, proposed by J. Taylor and B. Ogilvy. Secondly, the author refers to the […]

Ermilova A. V. The end of a professional career in ...


The study of Internet messages and comments on them is an additional source of information about the specifics of spousal violence due to the fact that victims do not ask for help from official authorities for various reasons. The authors expand and complement scientific research by offering a comprehensive list […]

Voronina O. A., Mitiagina E. V., Borodataya M. N., Volchenkova ...



Under conditions of the demographic instability, taking into account the existing negative trends in demographic processes in terms of population reproduction, it is relevant to analyze the structure of families and the processes of their formation using materials from population censuses of various periods. The purpose of the study is […]

Rostovskayа T. K., Kuchmaeva O. V. Demographic structure of families: ...


The article, based on statistical data, secondary analysis of sociological research and the results of the authors‘ own research — sociological monitoring of Yekaterinburg students in 1999—2020, substantiates the need to abandon the hyperbolic interpretation of a number of threats in the marriage, family and demographic sphere. The authors also […]

Vishnevsky Y. R., Didkovskaya Y. V., Zyryanova O. B. Matrimonyal ...


The Republic of Korea is one of the developed economies claiming world leadership in the markets of high-tech products and in the field of scientific and technical achievements. However, at the same time, the country ranks low in the rankings of gender equality, the problem which is so complex that […]

Rebrey S. M., Bogacheva V. V. Women‘s position in the ...



The paper deals with the analysis of using the Motherland symbol by the Soviet popular songs in order to represent the Cold War issues. Using quantitative and qualitative content analysis, the authors examine more than 1500 Soviet songs (1946—1991); 350 of them employ this symbol. The article demonstrates that the […]

Riabov O. V., Riabova T. B. The «Soviet Motherland» as ...


The article presents the results of a sociological survey of female students in order to determine their life strategies, level of reproductive health and self-preservation behavior. The study showed that the majority of female students, along with acquiring knowledge, include reproductive and self-preservation behavior, creating a family and raising children […]

Malyshkina A. I., Kuligina M. V., Panova I. A., Rychikhina ...


The article analyzes the specifics of father absence in young mothers’ perception whose families raise children with disabilities. The absent person is a father missing in the life of a child de facto, i. e. physically and psychologically (a father who does not live in the family, does not care […]

Bezrukova O. N., Samoylova V. A. Father absence in young ...



The experience of participation of the Department of General Sociology and Social Work sociologists of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod in studies of intergenerational relations in the family is analyzed. The stages of research activity and factors of its intensification are identified. At the first stage, the research was […]

Saralieva Z. Kh. -M., Sudin S. A. Multigenerational family in ...


According to a study conducted by the Department of Family Sociology and Demography (Faculty of Sociology) at Lomonosov Moscow State University, men who grew up in families with three or more children create families with the same number of children more often than women whose parents had large families. However, […]

Sinelnikov A. B., Karpova V. M., Lyalikova S. V., Antonov ...