Nikovskaya L.I. Expected social changes: what does society want? (based on the results of the generalization of sociological research). Local law. 2024. No. 4. Pp. 15-21.

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Abstract

Russia's entry into the SMO has put forward the achievement of industrial and technological sovereignty as the country's priority tasks; the need for an eastern turn in the system of geopolitical coordinates of international relations; civilizational and cultural self-determination of the country and its differentiation from the West; optimization of social relations in terms of reducing excessive social polarization and reducing unjustified social inequality. All these challenges have fallen on the expectations of social change that are gradually maturing in the bowels of society. A certain energy impulse for change is also set by consolidated public opinion associated with the "rewiring" of Russian society along the line of differentiation from Western universalist approaches, the search for its own civilizational and cultural code of development, the revival of neotraditionalist narratives of the formation of a value-symbolic framework of public consciousness. It is shown that this is due to increased social activism associated with "helping behavior", mutual assistance and cooperation. This allowed us to understand that the administrative and bureaucratic class has built convenient "capsules" for itself, blocking the development of a natural, from the point of view of common sense, business and civic initiative of society, allowing its members to participate in making socially significant decisions. The society is set up to improve the institutional infrastructure of social development, first of all, to reduce the degree of corruption, alienation of the population from power, unblocking channels for promoting and realizing public interests. In addition, the problem of people's dissatisfaction with the growing polarization of social incomes is being raised, which reduces the quality of social policy in terms of improving demographic indicators, increasing social upward mobility based on meritocratic principles, and improving the structure of social and labor motivation. This exacerbates the sense of social justice, which, when blocked, can lead to negative social consequences, forming "combustible material" and, accordingly, the risks of unconventional social actions associated with social explosions and revolutionary consequences of expressing discontent.