Петербургская социология сегодня – 2015. Сборник научных трудов Социологического института РАН

Article subject – the volunteering considered in a context of sociology of work. This foreshortening allows to consider scales, potential and factors of development of voluntary activity in the world and in Russia. In article approach in which communication of governmental, commercial and voluntary sectors of modern society is considered is used. Results of the Russian and author’s sociological researches on article subject are given.

Keywords: volunteering, volunteering, work, noncommercial sector, scales of voluntary work, potential, development factors, sociological researches.

S. I. Boyarkina, E. A Ivanova, B. G. Tukumtsev

Sociological Analysis of Postgraduates activities in Saint-Petersburg Scientific Organizations and Universities

Contemporary postgraduate Russian education problems are actualized by this article. The data of the author investigational project, which was carried out in scientific and educational organizations in Saint-Petersburg are presented. An attempt is made to analyze conditions of Postgraduates activities, difficulties which are complicates their work. In focus of our attention is compliance of postgraduate educational model taking place in Saint-Petersburg scientific organizations and universities to requirements of modern science.

Keywords: conditions of postgraduates activities, postgraduate educational difficulties, requirements of modern science.

G. V. Kanygin, M. S. Poltinnikova

Social Knowledge and How to Develop its Tools

In this paper we argue that shortcomings of modern information technologies in social management are due to insufficient flexibility of computer services provided. To avoid the shortcomings we propose a metaphor of social knowledge which is being constructed by a community of social actors. A special attention is put on knowledge tools capable of providing the knowledge, received as a result of actors’ collective actions, of features substantiated in social theory (constructiveness and openness) and mathematical modeling (observability and fullness). The metaphor proposed is assumed for further development as computer ontology.

Keywords: Information and analytical support of government, sociology of management, social knowledge, actor, social environment, tools, social information, social action, term. system, which substantiate a computer model representations of social actors of these processes

A. E. Geger, Y. A. Tchupakhina, S. A. Geger

Computers programs for the qualitative and mixed data analysis

The article describes the problem of computer support for qualitative and mixed data analysis. The possibilities of the six computer programs is systematically explored, among them two domestic developments – Vega and TextAnalyst, as well as four foreign counterparts – MaxQDA, NVivo, Ethnograph, Atlas.ti.

Keywords: computer programs, qualitative data, mixed data, text arrays, classification, codification.

L. V. Panova

Health care financing as a contextual factor of health

The present article investigates into financing of the public medical service since the period of transition. In this paper we analyze four key financial indicators that best reflect the degree of saturation of the material resources in public health service: total health expenditure (THE) in (%) GDP; General government expenditure on health (GGHE) as% of THE; GGHE as% General government expenditure; Out of pocket expenditure as% total health expenditure. A profound research of these indicators applies to application of the multilevel modeling approach. Such an analysis could add to the study of both individual and contextual effects on health in Russia.

Keywords: health, financing of the public health service, total health expenditure; general government expenditure on health, out of pocket expenditure, financial risks, catastrophic expenses.

I. S. Pautov

Sociological analysis of the connections between welfare dynamics and health indicators on the macro-level in the modern Russia