The article is devoted to the 25th anniversary of the sociological faculty of Moscow State University named after M.V. University. It shows all the work of the Faculty for the past 25 years: scientific, educational, publishing.

Social inequality refers to relational processes in society. In article are considered specific features of the degradation of social relations in different areas. In the analysis of the existing inequalities in the Russian society has been a clear trend for an integrated approach. Economic approach considers features of the distribution of wealth and income. Sociological approach expands the field of discussion and highlights the relationship of economic and social policies, the polarization of the social structure. Emotion is a special mechanism of the body needed to adjust our relations with others, with the world.

This article is dedicated to the problems of formation of Russian business culture and the influence, which exert the national culture, on functioning of modern Russian organizations and organization behavior. Doing business involves work at the management level with heterogeneous elements, reducible to a single system, where the very heterogeneity (social, historical, cultural) is one of the major management problems that require the development and application of sometimes very trivial management technologies.

The article investigates the regional inequality in contemporary Russia through its impact on the specifics and tendencies of political culture of Russian society. The author defines the concept of “regional inequality”, analyzes the character of socio­economic differentiation of Russian regions and considers particularities of the development of their political culture.

The relevance of the article due to the fact that poverty and low income, along with their attendant high levels of social inequality, continued to be one of the most acute social problems of modern Russian society. The article analyses the main factors of the low level of living standards of a considerable number of Russians, specifics of Russian poverty, and suggests ways of reduction of this social phenomenon.

The paper presents a comparative analysis of the important socio­economic indicators of Russia and another sixteen countries with developed economies from the point of view of the development of the welfare state. Reduced impact of social inequality is seen as a basic function of the welfare state. Just describe the role of civil society in the development of the welfare state and the implementation of its functions. Particular attention is paid to the development of the welfare state threats in modern society.

Trade values of young people are considered to be the main components of their trade behaviour. In the article trade values and behaviour of modern youth, their position in the structure of basic values, knowledge and expectations from the future profession are being analyzed on the material of social research.

The article is a review of a book V.I. Dobrenkova and N.R. Ispravnikovoy «Pyramid of missed opportunities (the Russian version of “capitalism for their own”)».

This article is a review of a book of Ju.G. Volkov “Creativity: creativity against imitation”. Reviewed by a detailed analysis of the work of Ju.G. Volkov and comes to the conclusion that the latter is not simply deal with problems of origin and formation of the creative class in Russia, but also invites readers to “collective thinking about the fate of the Russian people and the state”.

This paper presents the analysis of the situation of social inequality prevailing in the modern Russian society. Considered in detail these types of social inequality as socio­economic, professional qualification and regional inequality. Given current statistics of the main Russian authoritative sources. Was found the relationship between social inequality and the growth of a sense of social insecurity among the population, which leads to the spread of distrust and dissatisfaction with the authorities and the negatively affects the implementation of government reforms. Shows the main obvious ways of solving these problems.

The author considers characteristics of Russian citizens’ political participation in the period of political system transformation. The main models of political participation, which are peculiar to Russian citizens, have been allocated. Sociocultural aspects of political behavior of Russians in a context of cultural and historical political tradition have been defined.

The article describes the important historical landmarks of modernization in Russia in a long historical period of years. The autor analyzes the socio­political and socio­economic conditions and the impact of some of the innovations, that becomes a base for examination of the modernization doctrine.

This article touches upon spiritual and moral crisis in Russian society. Values are considered as the central core of the structure of spiritual and moral crisis, the problem of determining the values, their typologies, and the problem faced by a sociologist who studies spiritual and moral crisis through a system of values and value orientations.