Current article is dedicated to VIII International scientific conference “Sorokin Readings” held under the name “Social inequality as a contemporary global problem”.

It is considered in this article a methodology way for research of people’s inequality in relation to quality life, and a mechanism influence it upon attitude towards contemporary social order in society and state, upon preference of the different communities in relation to it changes in dependence on condition of their quality life. It is showed the possibilities of the synergetic way to give an explanation this influence upon. Based on the results of sociological research of the objective and subjective variables is done the analysis of a inequality in relation to quality life among the residents of different types of Russian settlements - administrative and region towns, village community. It is exposed the preference dispositions of the residents in relation to democratic socialism, liberal democracy and “middle” order in comparison with them in dependence on condition of their quality life. It is done a conclusion about what a structure of the material and spiritual variables of quality life have an influence upon choice the residents the types of given order at present.

Since 1991 the capitalist class has been the ruling class in Russia. On the ground of the Russian and foreign statistical analyses we can try to qualify main features of this class. The author highlights seven features of capitalist class, which determine the most important qualities of politics of Russia.

This article describes the problem of social inequality and information, which is not only a technocratic problem, but the problem of cultural view. Cause of the internal complexity of modern society should be considered variety of customs, beliefs, interests and attitudes, according to which people form groups in socio-cultural society. This article reflects an information culture that is ready to accept new scientific and technical information presented in the languages of the advanced countries of the world community.

Based on this study the author concludes that “the latent and open social tensions... in Russian society today is quite high”, “clearly defined trend towards further improving it”, and to the deterioration of the social situation in the country and rising social tensions it “could lead to a sharp (abrupt) increase in overt signs of social tensions and the development of its pre-crisis aside, and then the crisis situation”.

The article considers the complex of problems of the analysis of the economic stratification of the population, structured causes differentiation by income, especially due stratification and economic growth. Shows the forms of state influence on poverty reduction and alignment of social differentiation. Presents measures of socio-economic policy aimed at solving a number of problems in the segment of social stratification.

Social inequality has a lot of reasons. One of them is managerial. Managerial duties are paid so high that it set the stage for discontent not only within individual organizations, but also entire countries. The principles (the people in the state and shareholders in the corporation) because the specific structure of their competencies can’t totally control agents (officials and managers). As to agents, the moral imperative to act for the good of the social system and reputation considerations (to be remembered as a good ruler or a genius manager) can easily rejected when there is an opportunity to make millions dollars without special efforts. As a result hundreds thousands of people across the globe in the corporate and government structures are enriched through specific solutions to the principal-agent problem, and social inequality becomes an integral inevitable part of the modern economy.

The author examines the relationships between institution of family and other social institutions, particularly she analyzes the inequality between the family and state institutions in contemporary society.

The paper examines the problems of social inequality in the era of globalization. Globalization is leading to major changes in the socio-political sphere that directly affect, albeit to varying degrees, all members of the international community. One of the most disturbing trends is that increased globalization is not accompanied by political integration or reduction of global imbalances in respect of wealth and power. It is proved that the ideology of globalism, supported by agents of globalization, violates the sovereignty, the thin fabric of equality, democracy and pluralism in many countries of the world community. The examples of different kinds of equality, caused by the global expansion of Western patterns of social behavior and neo-liberal values, are presented. Sociology possibilities in softening of an existing inequality are considered.

Article is dedicated to analysis of international organizations and transnational unions in economic development of the three regions - European Union, Near East, Latin America. Process of economic and cultural integration, spreading throughout the last three decades, has led to emergence of the new social picture of the world in which inequality is seen not through separate societies but in global perspective - as the inequality between countries and regions. International organizations, that implement coordinating and integrating functions, are the core elements in understanding the process of transnational differentiation.

An article is devoted to relations between non-european (predominantly Moslem) immigrants and main population of Russia and Western Europe. Analysis of data of international European Social Survey (with participation of Russian Federation) led to conclusion: in Russia discrimination is a problem only for the first generation of immigrants, but in Western Europe such a situation is actual for their children and grandchildren too.

Social inequality is the phenomena that is hypothetically the base for first human communities genesis. Modern model for capitalist society as market relations form fails to satisfy the needs of society’s social development, and strongly requires to create new social knowledge structure and new approach for inequality sociology theory development. Our study conceptual logic comprises routine, philosophic and ideological reflexions analysis to create new social inequality definition in the context of new sociologic knowledge structure. Social inequality is the one of key problems in global sociology; the need is obvious to extract social inequality into separate discipline. Inequality sociology target is the decision of theoretical and practical problems in the formation of comprehensive knowledge about inequality phenomena in modern community, and in the development of common and specialized theoretical-methodological base for inequality study.

In this article we formulated the idea that in the information society that is based on the productive resources such as knowledge and information, there is a latent extension of social inequality. This is caused by the availability of information and the availability of its attributive qualities as inexhaustible, infinite, “nepotreblyaemost’” that systematically associated with different properties (selectivity, selectivity). On this basis, in the information society belonging to the upper class for the first time begins to be determined in terms of the new criteria - intelligence, creativity and brilliance of the personal principle.

In this article evolution of theories of social mobility in the history of social thought from the classical period of development until the end of the XX century is analyzed. The author describes the main directions of theoretical interest of research of this problem and their peculiar features. The main questions raised by classics of the sociological theory were actual during all XX century, and empirical research of a problem of social mobility resulted in concentration of attention of scientists on more specific questions, in particular such as studying of professional career, reproduction of the social statuses that promoted emergence of separate discipline in the western sociology, so-called to “sociology of a course of life”, investigating biographic mobility.

The article considers the relationship between the level of corruption and inequality in modern society. Taking into account the existing theoretical approaches to having a direct or inverse relationship between corruption and inequality this relationship is complemented by addressing the issue of trust.