The article is devoted to the new concept of sociological theory - the sense, which is considered as a qualitative certainty of the lifeworld, consisting of the public consciousness, behavior and social environment. The genesis of ideas of the “meaning” of the concept the “sense”, its development philosophy that became the basis for its sociological construct is considered. Basic indicators, the meaning of life and their manifestations in modern Russian society are defined.

The article deals with the classification of modern sociological theories relating to general sociological theories. The dynamics of the evolution of these theories, their group, the correlation with classical theories in sociology. 14 groups of modern sociological theories are briefly described, and the probability of their evolution in the short term is shown. The data on the possible ways of development of the theoretical component are presented.

The article deals with the consequences of liberal economic reforms in rural areas. On the basis of statistical data conclusions are made about a significant deterioration in agriculture compared with the Soviet period and also about breaking peasants of the habit to work on land (the oss of the traditional peasant way of life) and the appearance of a strata of landless villagers having a number of characteristics distinguishing them from those country dwellers, who possesses personal forms tends.

For the study of labor attitudes in the youth environment of a dedicated group of “young adults”. Attempts to understanding traditional difficulties associated primarily with the world of work. The data on employment, nature of work, unemployment. Special attention is paid to the livelihoods of rural youth, which is in a state of poverty. The outlined class of problems affect migration installation of young people, their desire to move to the city is constantly growing.

The article deals with the political activity of Russians connected with the following indicators: interest in politics, the presence of certain knowledge in this field, involvement in the political process and political activities, participation in civic initiatives, the fulfillment of civic duty.

The processes of formation of the Russian economic system and development of the financial market became more sophisticated. As a result, demographic and socio-political changes actualized the value of competent individual financial decisions. Financial literacy becomes the important resource on the way to material welfare for each person. Now it is also one of the main skills in his life. However, according to the data of many researches, the share of financial competent people is rather small. This article analyzes the problem of mastering financial literacy by Russians and the process of involvement of Russians into use of new electronic financial services.

Today we can see the existing tendency of increasing number of people of the pension age. That’s why such problem as practices of relationship of elderly with other age groups is of a great importance in modern society. With retirement the social world of the person is narrowed, the circle of contacts is limited generally to the close relatives. As a result of this process the changing practices of social interaction of people of a retirement age with their immediate surrounding became a subject of consideration of this article.

In this article an analysis based on research data of the life world of the Russians in 2014, of the civil activity of the modern humanitarian intellectuals through the evaluation of its participation in social and political life is made. It raises issues of political and social passivity of the representatives of humanitarian intellectuals.

The article is about a new phenomenon of the informal economy - joint purchases (JP) as the practice of survival and lifestyle of modern families with children. An internalization of values and principles of the joint purchases like network communication, subcultural purchasing process as gamification are described in this article.

The article is devoted to the problems, connected with parents migration due to economic and/or socio-cultural reasons and transnational parenthood formation. We can talk about the family community violation, alienation, difficulties in relationships of both adults and children, about the deviations in the processes of socialization and the psychological development of the child.

The article discusses the existing on-line risks that may be encountered big children and teenagers, who use the Internet. The examples of Russian and European programs that stimulate creation of a positive and safe electronic content for the children are presented.

The article presents the results of an interregional study of children and adolescents on the theme of the Great Patriotic War. The main sources of transmission of information about the Great Patriotic War for the young are the family and school. The emergence of new mechanisms to preserve the memory of the Great Patriotic War, along with the traditional, has a greater influence on the interest of children and adolescents in the topic, as well as the availability of information about the events of that distant war for the new generations.

The process of deep transformations that took place in Russian society, also affected on villages. The article analyzes changes in the role and place of education in life world of villagers.

This article analyzes the model of “national research university” by an example of Higher school of Economics. It describes the efficiency indicators of the development strategy of the University in the status of the NRU. The interim results of the model's efficiency in HSE are determined.

The article examines various approaches to definition and measurement of close concepts: social self-perception and subjective well-being. It determines their correlation and considers the most common sets of empirical indicators to measure them. It states, that “broad” interpretation of self-perception makes it closer to the term public mood and includes appreciation of life, self-status, but also the situation in society. In the “narrow” sense social self-perception is closer to the wide-spread in English language literature term “subjective well-being”. In this situation it includes over-all satisfaction with life as a whole and with its partial aspects. The peculiarity of measurement models of subjective well-being is a tendency to take into account the emotional perception of life.

The article considers the application of JSM-method to find determinants of trust in cross-national comparison. Search is performed on potential determinants of trust at the individual level and also the comparison of different groups of European countries on the basis of the fifth wave of European Social Survey (ESS).

This article defines key features of the individual life strategies and the possibility of applying the theory of social action and the method of incomplete sentences for their analysis.

This article reviews the basic functions of sports as socio-cultural complex of modernity. The author analyses the distinguishing features that belong to modern sports from the point of view of economical, political, and moral sides. It touches on questions like the interactions of sports with the mass media, the influence of sports on the economic sector and its political-ideological parts. The author focuses on problems that arose in the XX century simultaneously with the expansion of sports in society.

The article describes work practices of the doctors and pharmacists with the prescription form №148-1/y-88. The author analyzes key problems and difficulties which doctors, pharmacists and patients face at prescriptions and sales of the drugs by this prescription form.