The paper is devoted to the empirical analysis of practices of using the Internet of young people in contemporary Russia. The uniqueness of the current generation of Russian youth is formed by the fact, that the period of its life matched with the period of rapid dissemination of the Internet and related activities in Russian society. The paper presents the results of an empirical study, which was focused on the analysis of trends and risks associated with the consequences of such a specific experience of growing up today’s young Russians. Using the results of secondary data analysis and the data of their own sociological survey, the authors formulate a conclusion, that so peculiar context of growing up of contemporary Russian youth formed a pronounced habit of constant use of the Internet among today's young Russians. The Internet has become for them not only a technical tool for finding information and communication. It transformed into some kind of habitat for many of them.

Причина в суженном содержательном понимании большинством представителей молодежи вандализма-он сводится только к не подлежащим сомнению деструктивным действиям. Многие менее очевидные проступки, попадающие под понятие вандализма, не рефлексируются молодыми людьми в таком качестве. Таким образом, сделан вывод о том, что молодежной среде распространен неосознаваемый вандализм: значительная часть молодых людей более или менее регулярно совершает вандальные действия, не воспринимая их как отклонение от норм поведения, и не замечает вандального поведения окружающих. Полученные данные указывают на значительную гибкость и противоречивость представлений молодого населения мегаполиса о вандализме: на уровне стереотипов при абстрагировании от реальности он расценивается как девиация и категорически осуждается; а в повседневности применительно к конкретным ситуациям трактуется как непризнанная норма. Констатируется тенденция постепенного размывания в сознании молодежи табуированности и девиантности вандализма. Практическая значимость. Материалы исследования могут быть использованы для оптимизации воспитательной работы в образовательных учреждениях и повышения эффективности профилактики вандального поведения среди молодежи.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the specific role of ideology in the political reality of late modern society. The authors describe a notable contradiction between a steady interest of social science to the competition of ideas of the development of society and the growing doubts of the applicability of classical theories of ideology for describing and comprehending such a competition. The theoretical analysis of contemporary social theory shows that ideology can be described as an action-oriented system of beliefs, and that there are different views on the status of such systems in the political reality of late modern society. During the theoretical analysis, the authors conclude that the idea of the disappearance of ideology from the political process of late modern society has an important conceptual argumentation, but it does not find any cogent empirical evidence. It is more likely that ideology does not disappear from the political reality of late modern society, but it changes to meet new social requirements. Late modern society creates special conditions for the manifestation of ideology by diversifying the information field, reducing the role of political parties, discrediting many fundamental ideological projects, and reducing the class struggle. Altogether, these conditions make ideology change, but they do not make it disappear from the political reality. This hypothesis is correlated with the data of the sociological research conducted by the authors on the case of ideological competition in Russian society before the parliamentary elections in 2016. The analysis of the data of this research shows that ideology still exists in contemporary Russian society, and allows its description as a hybrid in the value kernel and local in its rhetoric system of beliefs. Thus, the authors conclude that it is possible to describe the political processes of late modern society with using the term “ideology”. The term “ideology” which does not lose its heuristic possibilities, but requires a “reconfiguration” of the methodology of social science.

This article is dedicated to the the results of sociological research conducted by the author to reveal the actual degree of development of the skills for the safe use of information technologies characteristic to modern Russian youth. The rapid development of information technologies and their progressive infiltration into social reality contribute escalate new risks and dangers. High activity of the representatives of Russian youth in using such technologies turns the into a risk group vulnerable to the threats of information society. Thus, the question of compliance with the rules of safe use of information technologies is extremely relevant among Russian youth. Over the recent years, this topic gained popularity within the Russian social science and humanities, but mainly on the theoretical level. The author introduces the data of the original research conducted among the youth of Yekaterinburg (N = 504) for empirical diagnostics of the development of their digital hygiene. This study indicated the controversy and development disparity of digital hygiene skills of the representatives of Russian youth. It was established that many of them perceive high Internet activity as a source of potential risks and declare a desire to comply with the rules to reduce such risks. However, the analysis demonstrates that their actual propensity to comply with the rules of safe use of information technologies is limited: some rules are observed by many, but other are often neglected. It implies that the process of development of digital hygiene skills among the representatives of Russian youth is yet not complete: despite the desire to reduce the risks associated with the use of information technologies, many of them are willing to observe only certain rules.

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