Kolesnikova E.M. ENGINEERING DYNASTIES: A RESOURCE FOR SOCIAL MOBILITY AND FORMATION OF A GROUP Kolesnikova E.M. ENGINEERING DYNASTIES: A RESOURCE FOR SOCIAL MOBILITY AND FORMATION OF A GROUP // Bulletin of the Nizhny Novgorod University. Series Social science, No.2, 2016, pp. 104-110ISSN 1811-5942Posted on site: 29.06.16Текст статьи.AbstractThe Article is devoted to the topic of the status of the engineering profession and the factor of dynasties in it. The study was a part of a project to study the engineering dynasties in Russia. Professional group is analyzed from the standpoint of intergenerational mobility. The problems of equality of opportunity is reviewed in sociological literature mainly from the viewpoint of intergenerational changes in access to education and income, less common to professions. In our opinion, the resources available for accumulation in the dynasty stimulate perspectives of professional loyalty to a greater extent than social and professional upward mobility of engineers. Localization of social capital in the dynasties can be treated as one of the instruments for the maintenance of proper qualification level of the engineering community. The study was organized in one of the industrial centers of the Volga region – Samara.