The article discusses the relationship between fathers, mothers and children in the step-family, socio-psychological conditions, the influence of other adult relatives and the typical problems of such a family.

The article considers different theoretical concepts of trust studies in keeping with history of sociology. Author shows, that multiple interpretations makes it difficult to operationalize the term “trust”, which negatively impacts on theoretical and methodological research.

This article defines the current state of the elaboration of the method of incomplete sentences as part of sociological research and presents the most promising directions of further development of the method and the possibility of its creative usage for empirical data collecting.

The article discusses the traditional forms of career guidance work with students of secondary schools: pre-university training, competitions, open days, lectures in university, excursions to the university departments and to the research laboratories. New opportunities to the involvement in higher education of talented youth are revealed based on the monitoring of universities websites.

The article presents one of the forms of urban culture of 1920-1950ies - the Gorky Park of Culture and Recreation. By the example of the middle part of Moscow’s Gorky Park - Neskuchny Garden - the author reveals the organization, functions, purpose of first culture parks that become models and platforms for new forms and innovative solutions in the field of urban architecture serving as recreation space for work-people.

His article considers socialization in sports as a process, when a sportsman becomes the professional. The author analyzes main mechanisms of sports socialization such as typification, routinization, imitation, and their role in the above process. The issues like the influence of sports subcultures on the sportsman, their integration into the professional community, the ethics and moral issues in sports and ways to solve them are touched upon. The author focuses on theoretical basis of the considered process and in conclusion following the results of the analysis offers definition of sports socialization.

The article is devoted to the reflection of topical part of the of Niklas Luhmann theory - Human interaction between the human and the system, following given by him distinguishing between mental and social systems. The author attempts to demonstrate the mechanism Luhmann theory of interpenetrating systems restoring the “human” in the social science on new principles.

This article deals with the issue of how the attempts to put Lacanʼs conception of “mirror stage” in the perspective of “development psychology” agree with Lacanʼs own thoughts. Simultaneously, there is a view that these attempts, being not certainly authentic, nevertheless derive from “mirror stage” itself as an event which once happened. Thus, if not by the content but by the fact of their existence, they fit for Lacanʼs initiative.

This article considers the evolutionary aspects of the moral obligation phenomenon. Investigating the origins of this kind of social responsibility involves consideration of directions from the theory of evolutionary stable strategy, which is dictated, inter alia, by the increasing attention to the ethical aspects of modern Western philosophy evolution. The research shows that throughout the history there happened a co-evolution of vital and cultural programs leading to the formation of optimum models of social behavior. The author proves that at a certain stage in the development of the society its evolution social skills became reflected in a universal form of morality with its basic principles, and external and internal sanctions reposing on beliefs about moral obligation.

The article is dedicated to issues of religion, secularization and religious education in modern society. An issue of the best forms and ways for religious education organization in state-support schools and theological faculties is now a constant topic of debate. The article brings up some results and approaches to organization of religious education.

The paper examines an identity of the realist trend in German painting of the late 19th century, with example of the principles of the Munich private school teacher Slovenian painter Anton Ažbe. The paper considers the impact of Ažbe’s creative method and teaching system on the development of realism, as well as its relationship with the impressionist and expressionist trends among Eastern European and Russian students of Ažbe.

Philip Johnson earned the reputation of being one of the major architects of the 20 century and has rightly become the first winner of the Pritzker Prize. Echoes of the influence of stylistic and structural features of his designs can be identified today in the works of the greatest contemporary architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster and Renzo Piano. But Philip Johnson, being an American architect, in his turn, learned from European architects and adopted their traditions, sometimes literally quoting his predecessors. What examples he relied upon when creating his first project and how he was able to develop personal approach to an architecture? Answering this question will allow us to understand more global process of how European modernism was borrowed in America and became the basis for the international style of the architecture after 1950.

A modification of the hierarchy of primary and secondary (modeling) systems, where the primary is communicative system (not necessarily verbal), and the secondary is the system of art built over is presented. The analysis of existing kinds of art shows that almost all of them are built on three primary systems: in addition to verbal language it is also a body language and a language of two-dimension visual communication. If the first two as natural phenomena preceded the arts, the third, on the contrary, was formed as communication system with its own skills in not completely natural for the human environment. All this makes the art absolutely unique phenomenon in human culture.

The article is devoted to the construction of a theoretical model of the ontology of television as a system of activities based on the “matrix container”, one of the branches of the phylogeny of the phenomenon of space-time remote communication being used as the conceptual and terminological template of theoretical model of the ontology of cinema.

The article is devoted to problems of interaction of the Russian cinema and Russian spectators, and to the situation in the industry by the beginning of 2016. The author examines the causes of the fall of audience interest to domestic motion picture and analyzes the processes that took place in the national film industry of recent years in order to identify their impact on the above negative trend.