Sociological education in Russia: content diversity and institutional limitations
https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2024-30-4-33-59
Abstract
Sociological education in Russia continues to develop under the conditions of constant changes occurring both on its external contour and within the sociological educational community. Statistical data allow us to assert that the decline in SCC and the number of students has stopped in the last five years; moreover, there has been an increase in the contingent of sociology students. There has been a sharp decline in sociological education in non-state universities, the share of students studying on a part-time and contractual basis. The ratio of full-time and part-time education in Bachelor’s degree amounted to 86 and 14%, respectively, in Master’s degree 88 and 12%. Special attention is paid to the most acute problem related to the development of draft FSES HE 4 and the probable transition to it in the near future. In the most unfavorable forecasts, sociology education is seriously threatened by the loss of identity. In order to understand the most acute problems that prevent sociological education from being positioned as an integral, established educational process, the curricula of 49 universities that implement sociology training programs were studied. The sample included universities from the RAEX ratings — the subject rating for sociology and the top-100 best universities in Russia, as well as from the Interfax rating of the top-100 universities in Russia. Correlation of the profiles declared by universities with their subject content, as well as blocks of general sociological and special sociological disciplines with blocks of selected instrumental disciplines, practices, socio-humanities and general professional disciplines allowed us to identify a number of features and trends in the implementation of educational programs for training sociologists. As a result, two tendencies were revealed: one is the emergence of signs of the emerging unification of educational programs in sociology, which occurs in the implementation of the profile “Sociology” in classical universities, and the other is the mass implementation of unbalanced educational programs that contain obvious bias towards a certain block of disciplines and do not provide a full-fledged implementation of the declared profile.
About the Author
V. V. ZyryanovRussian Federation
Zyryanov Vladimir V., PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the Department of the Social Technologies, Faculty of Sociology
Leninsky Gory, 1-33, Moscow, 119234
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For citations:
Zyryanov V.V. Sociological education in Russia: content diversity and institutional limitations. Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science. 2024;30(4):34-60. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2024-30-4-33-59