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Atypical aspects of social stratification and mobility

Samsitdinov Ilnur Zakievich

Employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Bashkortostan

450000, Russia, Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa, Lenin str., 7, office 1

ilfat_samsitdino@mail.ru
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Girfanova Irina Naskhetdinovna

PhD in Economics

Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Entrepreneurship, Bashkir Cooperative Institute (branch), Russian University of Cooperation.

450077, Russia, Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa, Lenin str., 26

ilfat_samsitdino@mail.ru

DOI:

10.25136/2409-7144.2023.5.40668

EDN:

CKMICU

Received:

05-05-2023


Published:

06-06-2023


Abstract: The authors attempts to highlight certain aspects of social relations and social movements that go beyond the traditional typology of social stratification and mobility. It is emphasized that the general vector of modernity, namely the information and digitalization in many areas significantly complements and changes the understanding of mobility. Separately, the social group of "remote workers" is analyzed, the number of which has been growing noticeably in recent years in connection with the informatization of society, as well as in connection with the geopolitical situation, the situation of "uncertainty". Structural-functional, axiological, activity-based approaches were chosen as the methodological basis of the study, the comparative method and the method of scientific analysis were used. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the article identifies three social groups — "remoters", "organizers", "fallacians", attention to which in classical literature, in our opinion, was not paid enough. In conditions of uncertainty, individuals who are able to design new forms of sociality, which have significant advantages over traditional projects, gain a noticeable advantage. The main conclusion is that social mobility acquires new indicators and is often not associated with the real movements of the subject in space and time. New research and analysis of this phenomenon are required, taking into account the conditions of rapid informatization and transformation of modern society.


Keywords:

social mobility, stratification, game structure, atypical, fallacy, virtualization of living space, society, status, qualifications, power

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Modern Russian society is considered as a combination of stratification systems, the leading importance in which belongs to such indicators, the degree of involvement of the subject of a social group in the institutions of power. It is the statuses and roles of subjects that acquire the highest importance, they are much higher than the educational status: the presence of an academic degree, an academic title, the number of scientific papers, the number of trained graduate students and doctoral students, social activity. The statuses and roles of subjects to a greater extent have the real power to dispose of material, information and social resources. At the same time, the formation of the subject's status also requires a separate study, for example, O. I. Shkaratan, G. A. Yastrebov emphasized that it is the family that essentially prepares the individual to acquire a certain socio-professional status [13, pp. 13-14]. Another researcher, M. A. Bulanova, notes that the social status of children directly depends on the material security of parents [4, p. 211].

The second thesis is the recognition of society as a society of individuals of simultaneous doublethink and threethink. The first dimension of the subject is his behavior in public places, in the workplace, official, completely identical to the norms and rules of the job description, when it is necessary to speak, to do what exactly corresponds to the only "correctness and unambiguity" of legal, professional norms.

The second dimension is the behavior of the subject with separate elements of informality and off—duty emancipation, but, nevertheless, regulatory norms limiting actions and communicative indicators are generally preserved.

The third dimension is a completely liberated behavior, accessible only in a narrow circle of people similar in outlook and values, in whose presence it is permissible to speak out on topics prohibited in the previous two dimensions, where a person feels "his own", you can say what you really think. The circle of people involved in the latter dimension is limited, this is a spouse, or other close people who are not necessarily related, but not the children of their own parents, since a stable pattern has already been formed among the younger generation to "knock", the ability of individuals to complain about every reason, including the far-fetched, to complain is financially encouraged secretly, anonymously, gloating over a defenseless person. The complainer, the provocateur, the informer, the litigant is devoid of negative value coloring, the ability to complain professionally "correctly", to provoke the communicant is considered by individuals from different social groups as a valuable quality that gives their owners a noticeable advantage to the possession and disposal of resources.

So, these factors lead to the answer to the question of why society is excessively stratified, divided on different grounds and system indicators. But from the theses follows the recognition of the limitations of classical sociological research, since it is doubtful that one can expect complete reliability of the results from a mass subject who is simultaneously in different "playable and gaming" situations.

The study of classical literature on stratification and mobility [1-3, 5, 7-9, 11] forces a genuine researcher to go beyond the established stereotypes, forces him to turn to the hitherto hidden sides of other indicators of the social movement. The general vector of modernity, namely the installation of a total information movement in many areas significantly complements and changes the understanding of mobility. On the other hand, P. Sorokin, even in his early works, pointed out the need for an expanded understanding of mobility, involvement in the category of ideal elements of being of the individual and community [10, pp.313-316]. It is not the human body that moves in space and time, but his abilities, knowledge, skills, skills, patterns of action, psychological attitudes, ideological vector, and his values that move. Therefore, at the moment it is hardly worth focusing on external indicators: how many and whom, where they came from and how many and where they left, how many returned, how many did not return. The external is less relevant, the internal potential of the individual is more actualized. Informatization has opened up unprecedented opportunities for stratification, the list of professions successfully implemented in the virtual space has a persistent tendency to expand, it is more profitable for an employer to have an employee with a computer remote for hundreds and thousands of kilometers than to contemplate it in a materialized form in the office. Hence, the second conclusion follows that the study of migration statistics can no longer give a complete picture of mobility, since the number of those who left or arrived does not characterize them from the professional side for the progressive development of society. Even primary, secondary general, secondary specialized, higher education, retraining, advanced training are available from remote platforms. The list of what opportunities the Internet provides for a trained person is constantly lengthening. Now it is worth studying the social group of "remote workers", they are exceptionally mobile in the professional field, they have learned to earn a living, never actually meeting in reality with an employer, moreover, without even knowing who he is, this benefactor, ready to pay and pay for a recycled, recoded, reformatted information product. And the number of remote workers is growing every year [6, 12]. But how to study them, which of them will agree to answer the questionnaire questions, and most importantly, how to find them in conditions where a significant number of them work in the field of hidden from the regulatory system, in the field of shadow economic relations. And the point is not even how many such people there are, but what kind of influence they have on individual processes of economic and social development of the region.

The second social group is the "organizers". It is they who organize the interaction of the client with the performer, while both the first and the second often remain anonymous to each other. The technology has been tested and proved its effectiveness: a test paper, an abstract, a practice report, an article for a speech at a conference and similar serious scientific work, an abstract, a laboratory report, an article for a conference, a welcome report are ordered. Clients, quite law-abiding citizens, are ready to pay and overpay for the work that they had to do themselves, but others unknown to them performed for them, performed qualitatively in compliance with formalities and rules. From the standpoint of the market worldview, everything looks quite decent and even legalized, it is difficult to present legal claims to these subjects. At this point, it seems promising to identify a list of areas of social reality and, accordingly, types of activities that are located beyond moral and ethical grounds, beyond the traditional understanding of progress and regression, this thesis is formulated by the maxim: "Nothing personal, this is business, and conscience is not a legal category."

At this point, it is worth making one more clarification, namely, that quality as a category of sociology has an undoubted advantage over quantitative indicators. Often, individual people are able to change the course of world history. There are many similar examples in the pre-information era, and they are constantly reproduced at the level of scientific and artistic discourse. It is one and a few who can change the vector of sociality, one mistake of the manager of a technologically dangerous enterprise is enough and the consequences will be severe and long-lasting for millions of people.

It is logical to pay attention to single social phenomena limited by local spatial and temporal frames, the Internet throws in a lot of ready-made, thought-out, polished scenarios of destruction, destruction, primitivization and coarsening every second. From time to time, the issue of information security is raised, but it does not receive proper resolution, it is difficult to identify the content as such for truth and falsity, many events, facts, descriptions have not only a direct effect, but also have a complex indirect influence and aftereffect on the subject. How many young people, after watching horror films, are able to move away from scenes of violence and reprogram to the original balanced psychological state in which conscience, respect for the individual, love of life will become natural? How to find out what exactly will cause constant computer simulations on the destruction of material objects, where human life is equated to the category of nothing. Also, as we deepen into this aspect of stratification, it becomes logical to single out a separate social group that scoops out material and financial resources from people's erroneous actions. This third group is not studied in the literature precisely as a reproducible stable group of individuals with clearly formulated ideological attitudes. We refer to them as "errorists", they benefit exclusively from intentional, unintentional, accidental, program errors of another unknown to them. The study of this group allows us to answer such an important question: how much society is moral, and how sick it has become in relation to basic values. If the number of "wrongdoers" becomes comparable to the number of their victims, then society is doomed to total degradation and self-destruction.

We propose a scheme for the manifestation of this phenomenon: we wait for you to make a mistake, we imperceptibly create conditions under which you can make a mistake, we construct a plausible environment in which you will definitely perform the erroneous actions we expect. Professional fallacies have an insurmountable advantage, they always and constantly win. So the actions of the gambling business are mathematically arranged so that the client, without even realizing, without entering into gaming actions, is already losing: even a single win of one is not equal to the winnings of the gambling center for the same period of time; I win units, many people unknown to this unit are hiding. No matter how you bet in a bookmaker's office, you will always make a mistake in the sum of the total loss and personal winnings, you often pay for the future illusion of winning.

Now let's consider this aspect in another plane: is there always an offense, or a direct violation of regulatory legal acts (we will give a legal assessment). The fact is that errors and fallacy are an indestructible property, apparently, of any kind of system activity, regardless of the level and complexity of the organization. It's not about Lenin's slogan, "the one who does nothing is not mistaken," it's too one-sided and trivial. We see another understanding of error, namely its legislative regulation at the level of the ontology of error, and not in connection with a specific type of activity (medical, technological, military and other errors). The resulting phenomenon of zeroing results as a consequence of error is characterized by ambiguity in definition and in application to real objects. So far, this term is not included in the space of humanitarian and organizational disciplines, but its "traces" are found in types of activities, processes, situations, and bifurcation points. Of course, zeroing can be investigated if we recognize that it has a causal basis, although at the level of common sense there are many of its modes that have to be recognized as indeterminate.

Over the past thirty years, it has been possible to remove the practice of "working on mistakes" from the paid teaching hours of university teachers. This is a valuable type of educational activity: after completing the control, independent work, test, exam, the teacher conducted a deep analysis of erroneous decisions, while singling out the special, individual, and even individual from the general, he formed personal cognitive procedures. But since it is now forbidden to evaluate a student in the presence of fellow students, then naturally this type of activity is taken out of the educational space. A fellow student should not know how his colleague studies, he can indirectly guess, but he should not know, it is enough for a student to imitate the presence simply out of a sense of self-preservation to prove to the teachers his imaginary usefulness.

So, the study of this segment of sociology is promising, there are a lot of respected professions built on the commission of erroneous actions of people. Is it possible to include representatives of these professions in the proposed social group, especially since they do not necessarily provoke the appearance of errors, but by the very fact of their presence they already indirectly admit them.

Thus, we have identified three social groups, attention to which allows us to conclude that there are powerful stratification vectors initiated by the subjects themselves. It is the person himself who becomes the driving force of development and self-development, it is he who chooses the types of social movement vertically or horizontally. Uncertainty causes the emergence of self-sufficient and self-valuable personalities, for whom their Self becomes the only and main factor of social selection, social status and the search for new modes of identification.

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As you know, society is heterogeneous, new layers are constantly forming in it and old ones are disappearing, while in certain periods saturated with cataclysms, these processes accelerate. Today, various specialists - sociologists, philosophers, political scientists - note the excessive stratification of Russian society, which makes us turn to the underlying causes of this phenomenon. The words attributed to Yu.A. Andropov also indicate how important specific sociological research is: "we do not know the country in which we live and work." But it is the knowledge of society that makes it possible to ensure its effective development. These circumstances determine the relevance of the article submitted for review, the subject of which is atypical aspects of social stratification and mobility. The author sets out to examine modern stratification processes in Russia, to show how society exists in conditions of doublethink and threethink. The work is based on the principles of analysis and synthesis, reliability, objectivity, the methodological basis of the research is a systematic approach, which is based on the consideration of the object as an integral complex of interrelated elements. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the very formulation of the topic: the author draws attention to the fact that modern processes "force a genuine researcher to go beyond established stereotypes, forces him to turn to the hitherto hidden sides of other indicators of the social movement." Considering the bibliographic list of the article, its scale and versatility should be noted as a positive point: in total, the list of references includes over 10 different sources and studies. Of the sources attracted by the author, we note first of all the materials of the periodical press, which provide information about the realities of today. Among the studies used, we will point to the works of A.V. Harutyunyan, M.V. Bulanova, O.I. Shkaratan and G.A. Yastrebov, which consider various aspects of social mobility of Russian society. Note that the bibliography is important both from a scientific and educational point of view: after reading the text of the article, readers can turn to other materials on its topic. In general, in our opinion, the integrated use of various sources and research contributed to the solution of the tasks facing the author. The style of writing the article can be attributed to a scientific one, at the same time accessible to understanding not only to specialists, but also to a wide readership, to anyone interested in both modern problems of stratification and issues of social mobility. The appeal to the opponents is presented at the level of the collected information received by the author during the work on the topic of the article. The structure of the work is characterized by a certain logic and consistency, it can be distinguished by an introduction, the main part, and conclusion. At the beginning, the author defines the relevance of the topic, shows that "the general vector of modernity, namely the installation of a total information movement in many areas significantly complements and changes the understanding of mobility." The author draws attention, for example, to people engaged in remote work, who are extremely mobile, but many of them are part of the "shadow economy", which makes it difficult to study them. In addition to the "remoters", the author draws attention to two more groups: "organizers" and "errorists". It is noteworthy that, as the author of the reviewed article notes, "if the number of "wrongdoers" becomes comparable to the number of their victims, then society is doomed to total degradation and self-destruction." The main conclusion of the article is that the author identifies "three social groups, attention to which allows us to conclude that there are powerful stratification vectors initiated by the subjects themselves." The article submitted for review is devoted to an urgent topic, will arouse readers' interest, and its materials can be used both in training courses and in the study of modern stratification processes. In general, in our opinion, the article can be recommended for publication in the journal Sociodynamics.
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