The paper discusses an emergence of the value system associated with the distribution of informational methods for controlling and surveillance in person’s everyday and social life nowadays. Accessibility of the informational technologies “democratized” practices of controlling and surveillance, destroying traditional hierarchical mode of these phenomenona. Situation of the post-industrial civilization is characterized by the ability for the state, corporations and independent agents to collect and process personal data to achieve sometimes obscure goals. It is argued that situation of “infocentrism” is not a unique feature of present era. Through analysis of Jeremy Bentham’s panoptic project, as being the most notably developed theoretical model, it is postulated that the key features of surveillance as such are “visibility” and “participation”. Despite the fact that in social imagination, through the works of fiction, surveillance is viewed as a violent intervention in private life of a person, the main form of it for the most members of society is self-surveillance. Still, technological progress couldn’t but influence the practices of controlling and, as a consequence, the ways of the people social interaction, that are constantly present in the digital space. In a society, where the culture of surveillance became reality, the person, state and corporations have a possibility to create homogeneous informational space, excluding people with the different ideas and values out of it. “Power to exclude” is considered to be a result of a tendency to objectify another person, as fundamentally valuable “Other”, in the digital dimension. The alike and other processes justify why surveillance, in its everyday manifestations, should not be neglected by researchers.

The article discusses the compatibility of particular rational actions at the individual level with the rationality as such at the collective one. The issue arises in decision-making collisions by several individuals, when the results of a possible rational choice of an individual are restricted by interactions with other actors. Such cases of interaction are found in the economic theory, political science, sociology, management and other areas of science related to a person and a group of people.
The article examines the social dilemmas that are obvious when all individuals in a social group behave as «rational maximizers of utility» what makes it difficult to come to mutual agreement and coordinate their actions.
In respect to the «tragedy of the common» dilemma, the author discusses ways of overcoming the incompatibility for individual and collective rationality within the framework of a new institutional policy, as a new direction of science in the public resources management.

In the article, interdisciplinary approach is introduced to interpret the process of de-actualization of the classical notion of the work ethic, caused by various crisis phenomena in the life of the today working human that emerged with the beginning of post-industrialization processes and continue to intensify today.
Traditional idea of work ethic lost its former attractiveness, and its basic principles are no longer able to perform their basic function of justifying the mode of action for the working individual. To understand such crisis phenomena as psychological discomfort, experienced by some workers, it is proposed to analyze a social request formed in the developed countries in regard of the work content and expected work results. The author’s working hypothesis is that there is no objective criteria of the “smart”/”stupid” work, “human”/”non-human” labour, and its subjective status can be determined only by personal satisfaction/dissatisfaction of an individual.

The paper presents an analysis of the ways for interaction between man and non-human beings. Those ways are considered in anthropological and philosophical-ecological methodical approaches. The approaches imply rejecting the anthropocentrism as actual ontological basis of the Western cultural tradition. T. Morton models a coexistence of humans and non-human beings as a network uniting all living creatures. Human and non-human beings are now placed in a single process of coexistence and the human ends to be at the top of the natural hierarchy. One of the options to revise the system of interaction of human and non-human beings is to rely on the non-Western (Chinese) philosophical tradition. The anthropological approach to rethinking the position of human in the world is presented in E. Cohn’s project. He considers the human being in the framework of his interactions with the world of non-human often crucial for survival. Based on the semiotics by C. Pierce, Cohn postulates that all living beings are capable to represent the world around them using certain signs for that. A way to establish interspecies communication is animism and concept of perspectivism, which clarifies it. Animism is about the internal similarity of living beings, with a difference in external characteristics. Perspectivism allows to add that every living creature is able to understand the other by accepting his or her point of view, his or her perspective. Thus, the rejection of the anthropocentrism enables development of equal relations of human and non-human beings. Such equal coexistence may have a positive impact on sustainability

Specifics of perception of political issues by Russian Youth and value grounds for their political behavior are analyzed in this article. The analysis is based on the sociological research data of 2018 and 2019. It is shown that political culture demonstrates the presence of mutually exclusive positions for a number of reasons. Low level of trust to the power practically do not correlate with evaluation of social-economic and political situation in Russia, do not provoke new forms of civil activity , what allows to make a conclusion about high degree of the political culture continuity, where group of nominal oppositionists demonstrating low level of trust to the power is not significant.

The article presents comparative results of two studies of the children and adolescents on the theme of the Great Patriotic War, obtained in 2015 and 2020. The main sources of providing information about the Great Patriotic War for the young were and remain the family and the school. The increased role of extracurricular activities is due to a number of factors. New mechanisms for the Great Patriotic War commemoration have not yet supplanted the traditional ones, but have become an important information tool for them. The interest of children and adolescents in the topic shows that the issue of the remembrance work and the memory actualization of the Great Patriotic War is being addressed comprehensively, at the level of various institutions, and shows positive dynamics, despite the fact that we are talking about the events of a distant war, which will soon leave no eyewitnesses.

The interest towards the issues of collective memory has not faded since the “memory boom” of the 20^th century. Despite the considerable amount of theoretical and fundamental research into the collective memory, its aspects and varieties, less attention has been paid to the methodological foundation of the discipline. The establishing of the methodological apparatus of Memory Studies is necessary for its final formation into an independent field of knowledge. Many researchers have been describing various approaches to defining the research methodology of Memory Studies. However, the suggested methods allowed to analyze only static and fragmented manifestations of collective memory. Nowadays, collective memory researchers see it, first of all, as a process unfolding in time. Such an understanding of memory as a process, possessing temporal characteristics, happening in a cultural context and dependent on as well as formative for its participating subjects, lead to the establishment of ideas regarding the narrative nature of collective memory. That calls for a necessity to define a relevant research method that would allow to evaluate social practices of collective memory as well as the historical and sociocultural context that affects them. The goal of the given work lies in the systematization of presented in the academic literature ideas of the narrativeness of collective memory and in the evaluation of the scientific potential of narrative analysis in collective memory research.

The article deals with the issue of spreading conspiratorial ideas in social networks and in the media, in connection with the COVID19 epidemic in the Russian Federation. A brief overview of the most well-known scientific approaches to the study of non-conventional concepts and various “conspiracy theories” is given. Special attention is paid to the connection of the conspiracy theories with postmodern ideas and a critical attitude to any official information from authoritative sources. It is emphasized that the equality of statements, that was insisted on by the supporters of postmodernism, leads to an increase in information noise and blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction. Modern conspiracy theory is the audience’s reaction to alarmism in official media publications. The author denotes an increase in such perceptions in the context of the crises, catastrophes and epidemics. An attempt is made to identify typical conspiracy versions for the causes of the coronavirus epidemic in the Russian segment of the social network Facebook. The article examines the fact of the growing popularity of “alternative theories” in the context of social fears of Russians, in connection with the deepening economic crisis and the prospect of losing their jobs. The growth of conspiracy ideas is analyzed in connection with the phenomenon of media influence on public consciousness. The functions of modern media are determined by the gradual replacement of the social reality of media with a reality that replicates simulacra, and is not only engaged in informing The article states that the influence of media materials on consumers of the news content is quite strong, which is one of the reasons for the spread of conspiracy theories in various groups and communities of media users.

The article analyses the accessibility of medical facilities in rural areas of modern Russia and the specifics of their organization and development. The authors reveal causes why rural residents have much less opportunities to seek quality medical care than urban ones, what leads to a disparity between the inhabitants of the city and the village. The thesis is substantiated that state programmes that should make health services accessible to the rural population to a greater extent do not cope with the task at hand. An attempt is made to highlight the public’s response to the existing disparity in the health services of the villagers compared to urban dwellers. Such a reaction can be considered an outflow of people from rural areas, and an increase in self-medication among rural people as a result of the difficulty in obtaining health services. The decrease in the number of treatment facilities in rural areas leads to a deterioration in the medicine situation in rural areas. That, according to the authors of the article, justifies the need to study the issues associated with the provision of medical care to the rural population.

I.V. Zholtovsky’s name as well as his architecture are imagined as fully associated with Italian influences. Meanwhile, by the beginning of the 20^th century, Italy was by no means the most significant country of palladianism: this stylistic movement had been developed much more in England, in addition the first monograph on Palladio was published in London (1902). Having studied the biographical documents of Zholtovsky, one can conclude that the “English theme” in his life was no less significant than the “Italian”. Moreover, this relation was not limited to the sphere of political or cultural preferences, but strongly affected the architect professional activities. By the example of Zholtovsky’s first independent work, the Horseracing Society house in Moscow, one can trace how the creative credo of Zholtovsky-neoclassicism was formed; how from imitation of the British Victorian style, through the study of English architectural books, he came to his own version of neoclassic style (that was so far from the patriotic-nostalgic features of the pre-revolutionary decades of Russian architecture).

The article is the second part of the research that consider and analyze two exhibitions held in recent years at the A.S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts named, “Chanel: according to the laws of art” (2007) and “Dior: under the sign of art” (2011), dedicated to the largest fashion designers of our time. The original concepts and artistic solutions of the exhibition design of these exhibitions became events not only in the fashion world, but also in the art of the exhibitiaon. These exhibitions presented various exhibition solutions, vivid artistic images, expressive spatial organization, conceptual and scenographic arrangement of copyright collections in the context of high fine art. The most important conceptual component of the exhibitions was to present the art of fashion designers, juxtaposing, giving rise to associations and building analogies and contexts with visual art, against which unique collections were exhibited and in the circle. With this single conceptual view of their work, and the single space of the museum in which the exhibitions were held, the artistic and architectural strategy of the exhibitions was diametrically opposite, revealing the palette and variety of artistically expressive means and modern exhibition design. Both exhibitions were created by modern foreign curators and designers and represent talented and creative exposition projects, the analysis of which can be useful for domestic environmental design as vivid examples of the exposition as a genre of plastic art, which is considered the modern museum and exhibition exposition at its highest and creative forms.

The book under review fits processes in contemporary architecture and art into the broad context of the living environment transformation by the human. In the book, architecture is considered as a field of searching for artistic integrity, which demands not only an integration of technologies and arts, but also a special mode of modeling technological and aesthetic processes. Hence contemporary architecture is conceptualized as part of the recent art procedures, including installation and performance. The history of art of the 20th century is reinterpreted as the history of art systems aimed at transforming the living environment through the disclosure of the communicative potential of material and form. The review discusses advantages and limitations of that approach.