Students of the Middle Urals: The Transformation from Classical to Digital Community (Research Prospects)

Students are one of the most studied communities within the sociology context and especially the youths’ sociology and the sociology of education. Today, students are viewed both as the intellectual avant-garde force, leaders of social initiatives of the Russian youths and as a specific educational community. This study is based on the traditional method of document analysis, which allows us to identify key fields of the research. The research is devoted to the problems of changing students in the information society. The authors substantiate the need and prospects for studying students as a ’digital community’. A review of the social, political, sociocultural and other aspects of comprehensive students was conducted. Keywords: Actual culture, modernization of higher education, social transformation, social resource, students, digital communit

The New Function of the Student Leisure in Russian Education

[EN] The aim of this work is to study the dynamics of the impact that the students’ leisure activities have on the value system formation of modern students. The object of the empirical analysis is musical and theatrical art as a form of multi-dimensional socio-cultural influences. Noting their interdependence, the authors on a particular empirical material prove the change in the value of leisure in the modernization of higher education in Russia, and establishment of a new function - the formation of common cultural competences and worldview attitudes of the future professionals. Special attention is paid to the role and importance of leisure activities of students for the society, and necessity of researching them for the formation of cultural policy. We show the results of the monitoring studies by the authors identifying the ideas that modern students have about leisure preferences, and refute the myth about the lack of demand for works of world and national classics. An increase of students’ reflection degree on works which address social problems has been revealed in motivation for choosing a cultural work. Student society is increasingly becoming an acting subject in society, and this is reflected in sudents' leisure preferences.Narkhov, D.; Narkhova, E.; Khorova, P. (2017). The New Function of the Student Leisure in Russian Education. En Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 477-484. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD17.2017.5266OCS47748

Students of the Middle Urals: the Transformation From Classical to Digital Community (Research Prospects)

Students are one of the most studied communities within the sociology context and especially the youths' sociology and the sociology of education. Today, students are viewed both as the intellectual avant-garde force, leaders of social initiatives of the Russian youths and as a specific educational community. This study is based on the traditional method of document analysis, which allows us to identify key fields of the research. The research is devoted to the problems of changing students in the information society. The authors substantiate the need and prospects for studying students as a 'digital community'. A review of the social, political, sociocultural and other aspects of comprehensive students was conducted. Keywords: Actual culture, modernization of higher education, social transformation, social resource, students, digital communit