The article analyzes the image of the “right” and “wrong” world in the cinema. The right worlds line up in accordance with the structure of the fairy tale (Propp), the path of the hero (Campbell) and reproduce a world based on the unity of morality and success. The popularity of the image of the right worlds is linked, in particular, to the illusion of justice (Lerner) - the belief of most people that the world is organized according to rules, the observance of which guarantees success, and violation would be a failure. This illusion has both productive and destructive consequences and is insufficient for an adequate vision of reality and successful adaptation to it. The art provides an opportunity for overcoming the distortion of faith into justice by depicting wrong worlds in which rules do not work. The article highlights options for depicting the wrong world in the cinema and analyzes its functions.

The fate of the jewelry in the first decade after the revolution evolved dramatically: from its fundamental disregard as a sign, marking the bourgeois culture of the “old world”, to its use as a marker in the semiotic field of the new Soviet culture. Clearly the evolution of its status values is manifested in the Soviet cinema of the 1930s. In the first half decade it appearance in films was due to the specific structure of the frame during the transition to sound film, the need to hold and concentrate viewer’s attention on the character with details that give film characteristics of the image a particular nuance.

The article considers the “realistic” and “conventional” approach to the scientific apparatus in film science and determines the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. It is proved that both approaches exist only as part of the history of cinema, and relate both to ways of expressing the history of cinema, and to changing content of historical experience accumulated by the cinema.

The article is devoted to the description of the method of ontologization as a functional applied tool of art history researches and at the same time as system-forming method in relation to art history as a specific disciplinary subject.

The article is devoted to issues of the evolution of the form and content filling of the image on traditional German ceramic vessels (16-17 centuries) in the second half of the 19th century. Based on the study of one of the iconic products of household ceramics of the era of historicism, the jug “Knight” (Germany, Westerwald, 1870s or early 1880s, modelled by R. Hanke) from the collection of the Saratov Radischev Museum, the author explains the shape of the “jug with a bearded mask”, the sense of this image and decor elements. The article analyzes the extent to which the worldview perception among people of the era of historicism, their aesthetic demands and value orientations manifest themselves in changing the semantic meaning of the image and modernizing the traditional Renaissance form of the vessel.

This article examines the nature of artificiality in documentary image from positions of an interdisciplinary approach. on the example of the film Arrival of a train at La Ciotat some mental mechanisms responsible for the perception of projected screen as “illusion of reality” are described. on that basis the author comprehends preconditions of formation of methods for artistic transformation of reality in the historical perspective.

The article, considering data of All-Russia research Rural Life,taken in August 2015, analyzes the main causes leading to relocation plans of the rural intelligentsia and identifies the factors ensuring their fidelity to the countryside.

The article is devoted to the analysis of political consciousness of women in the period of perestroika. The author notes that the periods characterized by the crisis of political consciousness signs of which include: the strengthening of syncretic character of the consciousness, a change in the principle of relationship of consciousness with the real life, social and political space distortion, etc. Politicization of women’ social consciousness through involvement in political processes is described. The results of sociological studies of the late Soviet period are presented.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the involvement of Muscovites in resolving issues of housing overhaul. Based on the results of a number of studies, the level of awareness of residents about the principles of overhaul, personal participation is assessed. opinions of residents on the amounts of mandatory contributions and the ways of accumulating funds for overhaul established by law are analyzed.

The paper presents the methodology and technology of scientific-applied Thesaurus for specialists in the sphere of childhood. In general, Thesaurus is understood as accumulation of data of knowledge in various socio-humanitarian sciences. The article substantiates the avant-garde character of childhood sociology in interdisciplinary synthesis of various childhood sciences. It is stated that modern sociology of childhood absorbs the existing methodological approaches and methodological developments in effort to understand new phenomena of the world of childhood. The authors mark two possible ways towards the Thesaurus creation: universality or metadisciplinarity. It is also shown how an idea of the universal knowledge of the childhood is implemented in Wikipedia. The progress towards metadisciplinarity is recognized as productive.

The article reveals the significance of the ethnic function of the figurative content of the socially-emotional development of preschool children and gives results of interviewing children of the senior preschool age, conducted with the purpose of studying the features of folklore images.

The article considers stages in consumer socialization of children, teenagers and youth. Specifics of consumer behavior of children of different age groups are indicated.

The article is devoted to the attitude to the importance of a family, family values and family financial situation in view of the Intelligentsia (the people of intellectual labor) in comparison with the population in general.

In this article considers the meaning of thought experiments in economics. It specifies that using the modeling method and thought experiments economics becomes enabled to solve problem of uncertainty of empiric data. Considering the methodological problems of applying the thought experiments, one comes to the following paradox conclusion: the less accurate the primary empirical data are,the more complete and simple thought experiment can be conducted. In this sense the artificial framework of the thought experiment provide appropriate opportunities for applying hypothetical models in economics.

This article studies the formation of female monastic tradition at the Daoist School of the Complete Perfection (Quanzhen) during the Jin (1115-1234) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties. The research is based on stele inscription with the epitaph to the Daoist nun Pucha Daoyuan(1152-1204), who brought a weighty contribution to the development of that religious movement. on the material of her hagiography important aspects of the female self-sacrifice are discussed and an information on the origin of the first female convent of the Daoist School Quanzhenin China in the 12-13 centuries is presented.

A review of the book by Anatoly Durov "Folk culture and the problem of the formation of a creative personality “in fatefull moments”" indicates main categories of the book, “fool (durak)”, “truth-justice (pravda)”, “wanderer (strannik)” as keys to the reconstruction of Russian culture and of the penetration of art into the life sphere in Russian history.