The article examines the main problems of such a social institution`s functioning in the Russian state as a public service. The particular attention is paid to the ethical principles of the state and municipal employees in the context of the administrative ethics. It is noted that one of the problems of the civil service as a social institution in the country is the lack of citizens` awareness of the civil servants` activities results as well as the excessive bureaucratization of the internal activities of public authorities in the country.

Немерюк Евгения Евгеньевна, доктор социологических наук, профессор кафедры социологии коммуникаций и управления на базе администрации Энгельсского муниципального района, Саратовский национальный исследовательский государственный университет имени Н. Г. Чернышевского, evgeniya_nemeryuk@ mail.ru Аникин Леонид Сергеевич, доктор социологических наук, профессор кафедры социологии коммуникаций и управления на базе администрации Энгельсского муниципального района, Саратовский национальный исследовательский государственный университет имени Н. Г. Чернышевского,

Local Government and Birthmarks of socialism L. s. Anikin, e. e. nemeryukArticle is devoted to consideration of local government in modern Russian society, to the analysis of its peculiarities caused by the historical past of this social institute.

Немерюк Евгения Евгеньевна, доктор социологических наук, профессор кафедры социологии коммуникаций и управления на базе администрации Энгельсского муниципального района, Саратовский национальный исследовательский государственный университет имени Н. Г. Чернышевского, evgeniya_nemeryuk@ mail.ru Антонова Ольга Геннадьевна, доктор социологических наук, профессор кафедры истории, теории и прикладной социологии, Саратовский национальный исследовательский государственный университет имени Н. Г. Чернышевского,

The article discusses the main idea of the study, that is discovering a number of problems generated by social dynamics and mobility. By using the methodological potential of sociology, the essence and logic of the mobility turn as a metaphor for the development of modern society is demonstrated. The radical changes in sociocultural dynamics that are also achieved by modern social sciences (sociology of mobility and other postmodern concepts) are shown. By using the methodological approaches of the sociology of education, the «order of the day» mobility problems in higher education are formulated. It is stressed that the educational sphere also becomes mobile, transforming the nature of human life, as well as updating some special phenomenon, such as academic mobility. The horizon of future research in connection with the complex nature of the problem under study is demonstrated by formulating the “order of the day” of mobility challenges for modern higher education.