The specificity of the transmission of ideas, methods of perception of various areas of public life, social stereotypes is described. The high potential of the content analysis method in reflecting the key informational factors in the formation of public opinion is shown. The qualitative and quantitative aspects of the content analysis are considered. The importance of studying not only the texts of printed publications, but also publications posted on the Internet, including publications in leading social networks, is described. The significance and prospects for the development of content analysis methods related to the study of large amounts of information are investigated. The perspective of the methods of content analysis based on the involvement of modern information technologies is considered. It is proved that in the course of social development, the importance of the content analysis method increases, which is accompanied by an increase in its capabilities associated with the development of machine technologies for processing large amounts of information.  

The article is a review of the part of the research conducted in the framework of the grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research “Urban well-being of people with disabilities”. The immediate subject of the article is professional self-realization as a factor of urban well-being of a person with a disability. Well-being is understood as a subjectively constructed phenomenon, that is, through the prism of people with disabilities’ own perceptions of the sufficiency of conditions created in the urban environment for their professional self-realization and, as a consequence, for well-being in general. Professional self-realization has become one of the six factor groups that directly or indirectly influence the urban well-being of citizens with disabilities. Along with professional self-realization, the factors of urban well-being in the framework of the study were: trust in the government and involvement in management processes; the level of implementation of basic values; psychological comfort; accessibility of the spatial environment; and finally, the quality of social services. The five factor groups listed above are not discussed in the article, but the reader should have an idea of the context in which professional self-realization is studied. The study included two sub-samples, reflecting the specifics of a megalopolis (Moscow) and a regional center (Saratov).

The article considers theoretical and applied assessment of Russian police sociological diagnostics. In Russian society there is a problem of improving efficiency of internal affairs bodies management system, overcoming formalism, voluntarism, bureaucratization and other negative effects. In this article there are analyzed the general theoretical aspects of sociological diagnostics integration into the management practice of internal affairs bodies, the possibilities and limitations of quantitative and qualitative methodology of empirical analysis. The police is treated as a local and integrated institution of the institutional system, simultaneously represented in the social consciousness by the means of traditional and new media resources. The article presents the results of research investigation and methodological-oriented empirical study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of internal affairs bodies management system, as well as searching for weaknesses of sociological diagnostic system. The conclusion is formulated as follows: the symbiosis of quantitative and qualitative empirical sociology (based on theoretical and methodological constructs of positivism and phenomenology) allows establishment of feedback with the controlled object.

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