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KUBAN SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Babeshko V.A. P.5-9

METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL RESEARCH


POWER ASPECT OF POLITICAL IDENTIFICATION
Menshikov V.V. P.10-17

Abstract: Interrelations between political identification and political relationship are discussed. Political identification of individuals is presented as a continuous selection between alternative patterns of political activities; during the identification process the patterns are interpreted in terms of dynamic dependency, independency, and interdependency interactions between individuals, individual and society, and between collectives, classes, states, and their coalitions.

THEORETIC AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL SECURITY MULTIPLE-FACTOR ANALYSIS
Yurchenko I.V.  P.18-27

Abstract: The author stands for the applying the methodological pluralism principle in multiple-factor analysis of the regional security. Having overviewed the main political sociology paradigms — positivistic, interpretative, and evaluative, — it is summoned to use social phenomenology methods. The collision between scientific disinterestedness and political expedience in researching conflicts, and conditions of axiological neutrality is discussed.

POLITICAL ACTIVITY AS A CONVENTIONAL PHENOMENON AND A POLITICAL CATEGORY
Yurchenko V.M., Shpak V.Yu. P.28-45

Abstract: Phenomenon and a Political Science CategoryThe article examines specific traits of the political activity: actors’ orientation onto common concerns, and using political power as the main means to attain the ends. Reasonable combination of means and ends in politics, it is argued, is based upon the principles of pluralism, tolerance, and solidarity. Compromises in politics are considered indispensable for a democratic political system. Various forms of political inactivity, including electoral absenteeism, are discussed.

POLITICAL MANAGEMENT


POWER AND MANAGEMENT IN THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT CONTROL
Solovyov A.I. P.46-61

Abstract: Additional controversies between government and society are caused due to the separate sub-systems in the government structure: political power and administrative agency. For the process of making and developing the main political institute of the government, it is argued, the interrelationship between the two sub-systems is pivotal.

POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT AND BUILDING LIFESTYLE IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN SOCIETY
Morozov S.A. P.62-72

Abstract: Russian SocietyPolitical Advertisement is considered as a pivotal element of political communications. The article describes, how political advertisement shapes images of conventional patterns of manifesting ones’ identities.

CIVIL SOCIETY/POWER CO-OPERATION IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA IN THE CONTEXT OF ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM
Savva M.V. P.73-79

Abstract: Expert survey demonstrates, how difficult the “Administration reform” is implemented in the regions of the South federal district. The main problems in the interactions between power and society are inconsistent understanding of the reform means and ends, managerial incompetence, corruption etc.

FROM STAT-OWNED CORPORATION TO A CLASTER ORGANISATION: TRENDS OF DEVELOPING THE SYSTEM OF FUNCTIONAL REPRESENTATIVES IN RUSSIA
Rogochaya G.P. P.80-84

Abstract: Functional representation system in Russia, it is argued, tends to follow a “neo- corporative” fashion, but with a distinctive feature — a spontaneous lobbyism with no restrictions by ethical, neither legal norms.

GEOPOLITICS, POLITICAL REGIONAL AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION STUDIES


DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF MIDDLE EAST GEOSTRATEGIC POLITICAL CONFIGURATION
Panin V.N. P.85-93

Abstract: The Middle East is no more an arena of counteraction between the two super- powers. This diversified influential actors and made pragmatic thinking salient. The article analyses historical and pragmatic conditions for possible rapprochements and confrontations between the regional powers and discusses the prospects of establishing a regional system of collective security.

BUILDING POLITICAL REGIONAL STUDIES IN THE POST-SOVIET RUSSIA
Baranov A.V. P.94-104

Abstract: The Political Regionalistics (Political Regional Studies) is an interdisciplinary field about actors, structures and processes, which are relevant to understand, how the societal sphere of politics works at a sub-national level. Three tasks are accomplished: the disciplinary subject is worded; actual for Russian discourse interpretations are compared; represented variants of curriculum are discussed.

REGIONAL CONFLICT: DEFINITION AND MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS
Kolba A.I. P.105-111

Abstract: Regional conflicts are one of the main topics in the Political Regionalistics (Political Regional Studies). The term of the “regional conflict” is specified with comparison with adjacent notions, and a variance of interpretations of the “conflict regulation” is demonstrated. The author made obvious that every specific interpretation of these key terms urges to establish proper agencies and procedures.

POLITICAL CULTURE AND POLITICAL SOCIALISATION


INTELLECTUALS AND INTELLIGENTSIA: SELF-IDENTIFICATION AND POLITICAL CULTURE
Fadeeva L.A. P.112-123

Abstract: The article is to define intellectuals / intelligentsia political culture basic elements. Using references to various societies, the author considers the subject group in terms of professional status, referent groups, social functions, attitudes to the state, ideological and political stances.

IDEALITIES OF LIFE AND IMAGINATIONS OF POLITICS AMONG HIGH-SCHOOL ALUMNI: LOOK THROUGH THE CENTURY
Morozova Ye.V. P.124-138

Abstract: The data of self-managed questionnaire surveys in 1913, 1916, 1921, 1926, 1997 and 2006 years among final-year students of the oldest Ekaterinodar-Krasnodar gymnasium. With inferences from the early XX century surveys by P.N. Kolotinskiy the author depicts the peculiarities and dynamics of the youth ideal representations and political attitudes.

POLITICAL RE-SOCIALISATION: TOPICAL CONTEXT OF RESEARCH
Samarkina I.V. P.139-147

Abstract: Actual topics in political resocialization researchers’ discourse are overviewed: the key term interpretations, measurement of its efficiency, intensity and profundity in various ages, different agents influence.

BUILDING POLITICAL SUB-CULTURES: SOCIAL MECHANISMS AND LEVEL OF SUBJECTNESS OF SOCIO-PROFESSIONAL GROUPS IN POLICY
Miroshnichenko I.V. P.148-161

Abstract: The interactionist perspective considers the shaping a collective agent at the same time as a shaping a political culture, and as a political socialization process involving the individuals who are to share the shaping political culture. On the base of collected empirical data the author finds three stages in the shaping a collective agent: familiarizing a political culture in touch with political aspects of every- day life; involving and identifying, i.e. positioning in the field of politics among social collectivities of reference and/or membership; institutionalizing of social identification and political socialization patterns.

CHAIR


POLITICS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALISATION AND NATIONAL CULTURE
Kolesnik V.S. P.162-167

Abstract: The author interprets the globalization process as a set of ecological, economical, political, and cultural problems-challenges, which indeed are organically interrelated and interpenetrating. It urges, it is argued, to tell the objective process of globalization from a political reality construction of particular, “partisan” interpretations of the “peal politics”.

CO-ORDINATION OF POLITICS AND MORAL IN RUSSIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
Gorozhanina M.Yu. P.168-179

Abstract: The target of the article is to debunk the dominant among Russian political scientists’ stereotype of the home political thought insolvency and a unique universality of the western political theories and technologies. An actually advantageous trait of Russian political thought consists in its ethical stress.

YOUNG ALIMNI SPECIALISTS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
Komarova L.G. P.180-183

Abstract: On the base of regularly collected empirical data on careers of the political scientists, graduated from the Kuban State University, the author infers a turning point of demand for the young specialists, and explains it in terms of higher quality of training professorship and improving curriculum.

 

 

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