University Bureaucracy in Russia as the Research Object in Modern Sociology

Abstract

The research work deals with the peculiarities of modern Russian universities bureaucracy features which play the key role as the characteristic aspect of modern corporation educational culture. The necessity of sociological analysis and its status definition, positive and negative consequences of formation and evolution are emphasized to be of great importance according to the research. The work is based on the idea that there is still no proficient analysis of the university bureaucracy phenomenon in the majority of actual sociological works as well as there are no evident reasons explaining the basis of the phenomenon. The needed reasons to be analyzed are as following: the absence of a systematic approach to the study of university bureaucratization process, the need for the analysis mainly in the context of higher education reformation procedure; uncritical reproduction of classical theories for bureaucracy provisions types requiring actual clarification of modern society peculiarities; the lack of special works presenting the status of university bureaucracy associated with the context of digital transformational society; the problem of institutionalized hypocrisy. Finally, the authors conclude that the formulation of the highlighted problems requires empirical verification and is worth discussing in the professional sociological community brunch.