Social expectations and satisfaction with professional activity of pedagogical personnel of research university (evidence from the State University of Mordovia)

At the present time Russian higher school enters highly active phase of transformations defined as structural transition from soviet mono-level model of higher education with strict administrative management methods to entirely different so-called “western model”, the main evaluation criterion of which is the results. As it follows from the logic of higher school transformation for more than recent 20 years, the transformations have covered primarily conceptual and technological components of education, then organization-and-administrative, organization-and-financial ones and at last - the components of social structure. In modern Russia the matter of special importance in the recent years is the problem of reproduction of highly-qualified personnel (candidates and doctors of sciences). Additionally, the capability of Russia even to draw near the developed countries of the world on a technological level, in the foreseeable future, depends to a large extent on the intellectual potential, the reproduction of which is performed by higher school and scientific institutions. This paper on the basis of multiple correspondence analyses (MCA) studies results of social survey of teaching staff of the research university. Its authors distinguish definite clusters of teachers according to social and professional capital and social comfort. The paper also reveals interdependence between distinguished groups and their orientation in professional terms, appraises social expectations and satisfaction with professional activity of scientific-pedagogical personnel of the research university.peer-reviewe

System Diagnostics of the Social Comfort of Living in the Region: Methodological Approach and the Results of Assessment

The article suggests methodological approach to determining the level of social comfort of living of the population in the regions of Povolzhskiy Federal District (PFD). In order to provide better perception of the analysis there was built the cardiogram of the differences in the level of social comfort for the regions of PFD on the basis of modern GIS-technologies. According to the described methodology the methodical apparatus was suggested which is based on indicative analysis using natural assessments of the object (indicators). The structure of the system of indicators modeling the state and development of social comfort of living in the region is given. On the example of the Republic of Mordovia there was performed multivariate modeling of social comfort of living of the population. The modeling was made in three ways: by constructing an integral index based on the subjective evaluation of the region's residents, by combining subjective and objective information into a single indicator of social comfort of living of the population. Finally, we analyzed the dynamics of the level of social comfort of living of the population of the Republic of Mordovia in 1994-2013. Keywords: Anamorphosis; Discomfort; Indicator; Indicative analysis; Modeling; Social comfort JEL Classifications: С19; С3