The article deals with the main approaches to the study of non-standard employment in the world and Russian science. Based on the above, a conclusion is made about the continuity of this phenomenon. Moreover, the issue of non-standard employment is being actualized in the state social policy currently. The authorities, both at the Federal and regional levels, are taking legislative and public initiatives aimed at regulating non-standard employment. The article consideres main measures taken by the state to regulate non-standard employment, through an example of existing laws and initiatives. For the employers that means a creation of favorable conditions for doing business. For the employees – promotion and reduction of state’s social commitments towards them.

The analysis of state initiatives efficiency is made in the article on the basis of statistical and sociological data, and the conclusion is made about their inefficiency. The reasons for the inefficiency of the state policy regarding regulation of non-standard employment are: first – the weakness of Russian fiscal system, secondly – the class character of Russian society, which accumulates benefits of non-standard employment with the class of employers and its penalties – with that of employees, who form the majority of Russian society.

The article examines the peculiarities of working conditions of air sports gymnastics (ASG) trainers as typical unsustainably employed workers in the private sector of the sports sphere. Results of interviews with the air sports gymnastics trainers form an empirical basis of the study.

The peculiarities of precarious employment of (ASG) trainers (poly-employment, informal labor relations, lack of social guarantees, temporary, part-time employment) are identified and the specifics of working conditions subjective perception are revealed.

It establishes factors determining an attitude to informal employment: whether the work of the trainer is the main employment or additional work-off (a form of secondary employment); it also states cases of non-observance of labor rights, not granting of social guarantees at official employment.

The advantages and disadvantages of the work in precarious conditions are determined. Typical notions of the future labor path and opportunities for professional development are revealed.

The article is devoted to the study of peculiarities of labor conditions for service workers as self-employed workers. The results of interviews with service workers (florists, animators)form an empirical basis of the study.

The peculiarities of labor employment (availability of free schedule, absence of total control, choice of orders, etc.) are identified and the specifics of the subjective perception of working conditions in the chosen sphere are revealed.

The advantages and disadvantages of labor activity in the sphere of services in conditions of self-employment are determined. Some notions of the future work activity and possible ways of professional development are revealed.

In recent years Russian researchers started exploring the process of consumer socialization of children and teenagers which was extensively studied abroad and thus led to the accumulation of a significant body of data on the issue. Those studies were mostly based on cognitive, behavioral approaches and on building integrated models (based mostly on interaction theory). This article contains results of foreign studies (within described approaches) that concentrate on three aspects (main agents, procedural parameters and factors determinating the consumer socialization results). It is concluded that sociological research of the topic becomes more relevant today and upcoming study trends are named.

The paper presents results of A survey “Children about Fathers” done among College students in 2017. The most common students’ judgment proved to be that a child needs both parents. The father is to be the head of the family. Children pointed out that the father provides for the family (the role of a “breadwinner”), but the most relevant role for the father, according to them, is that of a tutor, a mentor who protects and supports his child and the whole family. The father forms with the child those character traits that the mother does not always know how to do: enterprise, independence, boldness, reserve, willpower, the ability to keep one’s word, to defend one’s point of view, courage and steadfastness. For a boy, the father gives a pattern to emulate; for a girl, he is a model of a man and of a future husband. From the children’s point of view, in a full family the true model of relations between men and women, as well as the family model are laid. Children note a change in family relations of the modern family. They point out that duty assignments have become less rigid, and the fathers cope with child’s care and other household chores as well as the mothers do. Many children show a negative attitude to divorces and to single mothers who choose to take upon themselves the child’s upbringing. At the same time, children note a decline in the irresponsible father’s authority and the unfavourable public opinion about such fathers and their fatherhood. Traditional concepts and values can be traced in the children’s views on the family.

Phenomenon of rewarding the court officials and warriors by the king for true service flourished during the period of XVIII-th dynasty, however, “honour system” in relation between the king and the nobility had been developed in the Old Kingdom already. This article contains a complex analysis of material, imaginary and written sources on rewarding ancient Egyptian workers and officials in the Old Kingdom. The analysis allowed us to explore the peculiarities of honour scene composition, define the reward typology during the Old Kingdom, and follow the making of a tradition of rewarding officials with “gold of the honour”.

The article examines the antiquarian activities of Pirro Ligorio and members of the Academy of Sdegnati (1541–1545) (Accademia degli Sdegnati). The Academy consisted of a group of Italian and French (and also Dutch-German) antiquarians and scientists whose extensive program was based on a new scientific study of Vitruvius, and represented the first comprehensive attempt to articulate the goals of classical archeology.

Works of folk art crafts from a certain time change the territory of existence, turning from objects with an emphasized utilitarian function to souvenirs. That contradicts their material essence and role in the context of the national spiritual culture. Traditional products, originally endowed with a bright and imaginative decorative, deep substantial meanings, have nothing to do with external embellishment are perceived as souvenirs, at the same time, the decorative function of these things can’t be reduced to their souvenir use. It is necessary to recognize the production of these things as a special form of industry, proceeding from the fact that the decorative richness of folk art has nothing to do with embellishment.

In the USSR, measures have been developed and taken to preserve this material and spiritual activity, which has its own specific features and in the current conditions of development that need special protection. Important decisions were proposed in the USSR aimed at the development of traditional art: the preservation of handicrafts and artels, the institutionalization of traditional art within the Union of Artists of the USSR, special measures to support scientific creativity and a comprehensive study of folk art by specialized organizations. The collapse of the Soviet system of folk arts and crafts, production, loss of continuity in the development of traditional art leads to a steady drop in the artistic quality of products and the erosion of professional criteria in the approach to this unique field of creativity. in the field of folk crafts and disruptions in the continuity of both artistic and scientific schools, led to a drop in the average level of products and the erosion of the professional criteria for commercial production.

The article gives an analysis of the processes taking place in the last decades in this field, and expresses the need to return to professional methods of running the industry, cultivating specialists who understand the role of preserving traditional culture, which, in turn, is impossible without fixing it in the legislative framework. Proceeding from a detailed study of Soviet experience, it is possible to give a number of recommendations on the qualitative development of folk crafts. They are the legislative protection of fisheries and the prevention of counterfeit, the holding of festivals and seminars for the exchange of experience, the art expertise of the workshops and the wider involvement of artists in craftwork, implying the critical acceptance of their stylistic searches as a necessary part of the development of folk crafts.

The study addresses the issue of the formation of the typology of Russian stations, the features of their design and layout, as well as the analysis of the mechanisms of operation and internal arrangement of station buildings by an example of Moscow monuments of railway architecture. The article concludes that the first Moscow stations turned in the second half of the 19th century, from the initially small, single-storey, simply-constructed buildings, into complex ensembles consisting of a variety of architectural volumes with a uniquely built intercom system.

The article is devoted to the description of the correct and functional use of the system approach in art studies researches. The subject of the article is use of the system approach in framework of art studies, that is considered through activity approach, allowing to present the system approach as a component of the scientific research first regardless the specifics of any definite disciplinary objectivity, and then already using it directly in art studies. This description sets the most general normative framework for the correct use of the system approach under conditions of any art research, taking into account the specifics of the subject area which art researcher deals. The conclusive result, being essentially the primary and most general methodical description of the use of the system approach under conditions of art studies as specific disciplinary objectness, could be used, first of all, as a tool for problematization of existing in art studies knowledge concepts in which the indication of the use of the system approach comes to be often accidental and completely unimportant for real use in the study, and secondly in the design and standardization of scientific research of art studies researcher, and, finally, in the educational process as an example of correct attitude to the selected methodological tools in the implementation of science research work.

The article attempts to consider the doctrine of soul of Kassian Sakowicz in the context of both Catholic theology and the Eastern Christian tradition.

The main subject of present analysis is the “Treatise on the Soul” by Kassian Sakowicz, published in 1625, which has so far been poorly studied. To identify Sakowicz’s understanding of the significance of the problematics raised in this treatise, it is compared to some Orthodox as well as Catholic academic courses of the mid-17th century.

The most important task of this article is to describe the way in which the texts of the scholastic tradition are used by the author, who, at the time of writing the treatise, belonged to the Orthodox Church. Therefore “Treatise on the Soul” is chiefly compared with treatises “Man” and “Conservation and Government of Creation”, included in the “Summa Theologiae” by Thomas Aquinas, whose influence on Sakowicz was very significant. The possible reasons for this dependency are seen in the facts of the Sakowicz’s life. Also, the influence of the author’s philosophical and theological position on evolution of his confessional identity is revealed.

Special attention is given to those places in the “Treatise on the Soul”, in which Sakowicz creatively reworked the ideas of Thomas Aquinas, as well as to the original thought of this author. However, the author of the article not only notes Sakowicz’s changes to the general structure of the text, as compared to the corresponding sections of “Summa Theologiae”, but she also attempts to unveil factors that caused such a change.

The article continues the study of apokatastasis issue in the Russian philosophical tradition. In the philosophy of the Silver Age, the problem of the salvation equality arose in the context of disputes over the possibility / impossibility of the “Kingdom of God on earth”, while the selectivity of salvation and the idea of judgment were the main arguments in criticizing historical Christianity. In Russian abroad, the belief in apokatastasis was characteristic of a circle of philosophers grouped around the magazines “Path” and “New Grad”. N.A. Berdyaev, S.N. Bulgakov, N.O. Losskii did not approve of the ontology of evil and hell and sought to reconcile the idea of apokatastasis with the Christian doctrine of freedom. In doing so, they appealed to the experience of F.M. Dostoevskii, N.F. Fedorov, V.S. Solov’ev, arguing that the volume of salvation does not depend on God, but on the person, his ability to turn to God’s ways, becoming a co-worker of the Creator in the matter of transforming the world into the Kingdom of Christ.

Theology in the postmodern era tries to overcome methodological grounds of modernism. Postliberal theological tradition actualized the use of narrative method in the second half of the twentieth century. In the article early works on the history and methodology of ecclesiological model by contemporary American theologian Stanley Hauerwas is discussed. The article also talks about the correlation and difference of his narrative methodology with postliberal theological tradition (Lindbeck G., Frei H.). The article focuses on Hauerwas emphasizing the practical significance of his method in contrast to academic style of postliberal theologians. The growth of two stages of narrative method of Hauerwas are highlighted: the anthropological and theological ones. In the article the author shows how Stanley Hauerwas’s methods altered from anthropological to theological. The work gives the genesis of each stage and takes into account the ecclesiological problems. The paper shows how narrative methodology of S. Hauerwas was transformed in the transition from the anthropological to theological.

Also, there is a try to investigate the methodology of theological theory in context of a key aspect of Hauerwas’s theological conception – virtue of peacemaking/Christian pacifism. The paper demonstrates how Christian pacifism gave ground for Hauerwas’s theological narrative.