Lenkov R.V. Socio-resource support by the population with higher education policy of socio-cultural modernization of regions. Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast, 2018, vol. 11, Issue. 6, pp. 202-211.

Abstract

The article reflects the experience of an empirical study of the institutional and regulatory component in the modernization of Russian regions that are historically at different levels of civilizational development. The informational basis of the study was the results of a mass representative survey (“civil examination”) conducted by the Center for Social Management and Social Technologies of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in four regions of the Russian Federation: the Moscow Region, the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Belgorod Region and the Republic of Kalmykia. criteria for the level of sociocultural modernization (grant of the Russian National Foundation no. 15-18-30077). The author believes that today an undervalued resource of the state strategy of socio-cultural modernization of regions is higher education. As an avant-garde social group capable of exerting an ever-increasing influence on the harmonious development of the country, people with higher education are called. This group is characterized as a “soft” force in supporting constructive actions of the power and management vertical, and later on as a centripetal factor capable of ensuring a high level of solidarity of Russian society in solving multi-profile modernization tasks. The research tools specified in the article “The Role of the Institute of Higher Education in Solving the Problems of Socio-Cultural Modernization of the Regions” of this journal (vol.10, no. 5, 2017) are specified. Empirically verifiable hypotheses are clarified: first, the sociocultural modernization of Russian regions is related to the degree of development of power and control systems in them, which depend, in turn, on social organization and self-organization, the hierarchy of groups, including the population with higher education, and their interest in the process modernization; secondly, a social group with a higher education is an electorate with average estimates of socio-political activity, which can play an important role in the development of problem situations in regions with different levels of modernization and in creating new models of organizational development and management. The purpose of the study is defined as identifying the degree of social support of the population with a higher education policy of the power and management vertical and its individual links. The results of the analysis of socio-economic indicators of regional development are given, taking into account the place and role of the population group with higher education. The survey toolkit is designed for further comparative research on large samples.

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