This article deals with the strains of institutional confidence in the educational space associated with the disintegration of the institution of education in the liberal modernization. Institutional trust in higher education loses the irrational and increasingly approaches the confidence based on transparency, performance and objectivity of assessments. The main trends in education: focus on customers, rating, extrapolation for educational institutions of business structures. The authors distinguish externalist and internalist models of education, within which there is a variety of explanations and manifestations of strain institutional trust in the educational space.

Social entrepreneurship, which under certain conditions can contribute to solving the problems of employment of people with disabilities, is becoming a noticeable direction of social policy in modern Russia. The article analyzed the legislative changes aimed at implementing the new state policy towards people with disabilities, reviewed the scientific foreign and domestic literature on the use of social entrepreneurship practices by people with disabilities. The conclusion is made about the role of institutional and socio-cultural factors in the development of social entrepreneurship, which is one of the mechanisms for the implementation of social support for people with disabilities and citizens in need of social protection. The main forms of discrimination of these categories of citizens in employment and work have been identified, the legal basis for quoting places for people with disabilities has been described, problems, arising in the organization and implementation of activities in social enterprises have been described. Examples of social entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations programs,that improve the living conditions of people with disabilities, allowing creating financially sustainable business models, are given. The study interpreted data collected by the method of analyzing documents (statistical data characterizing the situation of people with disabilities in the Russian Federation, reports of state institutions, reports of the Committee on Labor and Employment of the Volgograd Region) and the method of non-formalized interview of heads of organizations of the Volgograd Region dealing with social protection of citizens employment strategies for people with disabilities (n = 32). An empirical study led to the conclusion that the measures planned by state structures to improve the situation of socially vulnerable people, including people with disabilities, are carried out without coordination with non-profit organizations that provide them with assistance.

The article is devoted to the study of the concept "law" as a key element of the concept sphere of law in order to explain the mental obstacles on the way to the liberalization of the Russian political and legal system due to cognitive stereotypes and values of national consciousness, as well as the dominant directions of legal genesis. It is shown that as a regulatory concept "law" performs the organizational function of the formation of moral values as the basis of legal norms. According to comparative studies the prototypical image of the law in Russian linguistic culture is associated with the restriction of freedom, while in English culture, on the contrary, the law is perceived as the guarantor of freedom. It seems that the historical and philological explanation of this difference, associated with the study of the genesis of the lexeme "law", as well as the historical and legal explanation appealing to the religious and moral values of the respective cultures do not take into account the specifics of legal concepts, which are largely logically constructed, and therefore should be supplemented by a logical analysis of the concept "law". The notional side of the concept "law" was formed in the Russian linguistic culture in the course of social understanding of the existing rules and regulations in practice and their subsequent conceptual consolidation in codified norms. Since the codification in Russian law was carried out on the basis of external sources, the explanation of the specifics of understanding the concept of "law" in Russian culture requires an appeal to its subject-the possibility of deontic qualification of the subject mattered from the point of view of the law and the possibility of imposing sanctions fixed by legislative norm. In this regard, it is shown that in Russian and English-speaking cultures legal norms develop within the framework of different models of deontic logic, differing from each other by meaningful interpretations of due. Mental differences in the interpretation of the concept of "law" in Russia and the West are stipulated by the fact that in Russian legal culture due is understood as an ideal and is described by the formula "must be", and the norm has an impersonal formulation. In deontic logic this corresponds to the standard semantics of norms. On the contrary, in Western culture positive law is based on the idea of freedom of self-determination of individuals and tends to another model-generalized semantics of norms for deontic modality, where due characterizes human action and stands for "must be done", and the formulation of the norm takes into account the purpose, means and conditions of action. It is concluded that the culture-based model of deontic modality and its semantics of the possible world determine the understanding of the concept "law" in the concept sphere of law of a particular culture.

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The subject of the research is the processes of meaning-making in public and socio-political discourse, related to constructing and interpreting the image of Russia. The study deals with the specificity of semantic description of the country's image, with a particular focus on a thesaurus – a repository of data, knowledge and concepts an individual possesses in relation to a reflected fact of life. With the emergence of the cognitive approach the researchers' observations shift towards the confrontation of cultures and the resulting ideological opposition as prerequisites for constructing a particular image of Russia. In contrast to traditional linguistics, describing metaphorical images of Russia in terms of "semantic components" or "semantic fields", cognitive linguistics views constructing of the country's image as an effect of metaphorical framing which involves applying a number of coherent procedures: naming, categorization, framing, narrating. Under proliferation and competition of ideologies, it is not the frequency of a metaphorical model of the image of Russia that serves as an indicator of its productivity but rather its potential to produce new lexical units, frames or slots. The current study exemplifies the role of ideologemes and beliefs, reflecting different value systems, in constructing the auto- and hetero-image of Russia. The paper dwells on framing in the processes of activating society's emotional states "fostering" various Russia-related sentiments. While constructing the auto- and hetero-image of Russia, political actors compete fiercely for their right to frame ideas dominating the public and political discourse and ensuring their accepted meaning. Under the current ideological opposition, the instrumentarium of metaphorical framing and reframing can serve not only as a means of competitive practices but also a means of conflict resolution in discussing the ideological and political agendas associated with attitudes to Russia.