Budimir Gvidonovich Tukumtsev would have turned 95 years old on the 1st of January 2022. This man is a legend of the Russian social science, due to the fact, that he has made an invaluable contribution to the formation of the labour sociology in our country. The purpose of this article is to familiarize the readers with the personal qualities and the main stages of the life path, as well as with the academic interests of a famous scientist. Conclusions are drawn regarding the reasons for the wide recognition in the scientific community sphere and success within the scope of teaching and scientific activities.

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Professor of the Department of Sociology and Cultural Studies of Samara University Evgeniy Fomich Molevich reached 91 years on the 25th of April 2022. Anniversary events and publications regarding this famous scientist have shown that for the modern youth he remains an example and a man of progress. Nevertheless, the origins of his progressive thinking and the foundation of all his modern concepts of society development were laid in the distant 1960s and 1970s. This period of Molevich work as a philosopher is undeservedly overshadowed by the following discoveries of Molevich as a sociologist, although it is obvious that these are interrelated roles of this amazing person. This article examines the period of formation of Y.F. Molevich as an independent researcher. Moreover, additional attention is paid to his creative path as an employee of the Ural State University and the beginning of his working period at Samara University. The contribution of E.F. Molevich is examined and analyzed within the scope of his correcting interpretation of the philosophical law negation of negation and the concept development referring to the natures dialectical evolution. Both concepts will have been applied in the further established sociological theory.

The article grounds the mechanisms of solving the problem to develop the university students social psychological monitoring system as an education management tool that enables to fulfill the gap of knowledge about the object under control. The research represents the results of the second phase of the Samara university students and prospective students social and psychological monitoring system project. The research first phase formulated the students social and psychological monitoring conceptual framework, revealing readiness to maintain business and research activities as a personality integrative characteristic comprising needs, motivations, values and social attitudes. The present article gives the complex methodology that will be applied in the Samara university students social and psychological monitoring to study their readiness to maintain business and research activities. The methodology comprises social and psychological methods and research techniques, enabling to evaluate extensively the needs, motivations, values, social attitudes and readiness for education activities: 1) Likerts scale; 2) P.M. Lapin and T.V. Razinas adopted motive classifications; 3) M. Rokichs methodology for value orientation study; 4) S. Schwartzs methodology for diagnosing value orientations; 5) questionnaire for examining business and research intentions and attitudes; 6) A.L. Zhuravlev and V.P. Pozdnyakovs modified methodology for diagnosing business motives, Yu.S. Medvedeva and T.V. Ogorodovas methodology for revealing research motivations.The monitoring methodology, resulting from the research, will be realized as a program module in students accounts of the Samara university electronic educational system. The monitoring results will base the recommendations for both students and prospective students when choosing the individual academic path within the competency profile formation, and the university educational, research and business administration authorities.

The article states and grounds the task to develop and introduce the system of university students monitoring as a tool to manage education process that enables to solve the problem of lack of knowledge about the object under control. The article describes theoretical and methodological reasons for the monitoring system. It analyses comprehension of competency profile, taken as an integrative index of the education result: this index enables to evaluate the learning process efficiency from the point of view of the requirements applied to the subject-matter specialist. The authors describe the monitoring conceptual framework and the possibility of its adaptation to reveal students readiness to maintain business activities and research. The conceptual model of the students competence profile is based on understanding the concept of readiness for any activity as personality integrative characteristic including needs, motivations, values and social attitudes. The article proves the procedure of students motivation diagnostics, the diagnostic procedure of their value system and intentions, and social attitudes. It articulates the way of developing and introducing the social psychological monitoring system, associated with sociological and psychological methods being included into the complex evaluation technique. These methods comprise: 1) estimation technique for the personnel involvement into the company activity; 2) Likert scale; 3) adopted motive classifications by P.M. Lapin and T.V. Razina; 4) M. Rokichs methodology for value orientation study; 5) S. Schwartzs methodology for measuring value orientations; 6) methods for IAT and VAAST attitudes indirect diagnostic.