Mozgovaya, A. V. and Shlykova, E. V. (2020), “View to the value of life as a factor of population’s perception of the terrorist threat”, Research Result. Sociology and management, 6 (2), 101-116, DOI: 10.18413 ...

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Abstract

The article continues the series of author's publications in the Journal and is aimed at implementing the previously developed approach to understanding counteraction to socially dangerous phenomena as a process of institutional and civil adaptation. Testing this approach in the previous publication allowed us to fix the asymmetry in the speed and success of adaptation of social institutions and civil society. This fact has determined the urgency, scientific and practical need for an in-depth study of the potential of civil participation in countering the processes and phenomena that threaten public security. The starting point of the analysis in this article is the thesis that public security depends not only on the institutional actors of the social environment, but also on ordinary citizens, average people. The article analyzes the population's perceptions of the essence of extremist and other actions of groups whose activities are associated with a threat to public safety, life, health, and well-being of people, through the attitudes of various categories of the population regarding the permissibility of violence against life itself. Determining the degree of fundamental attitude to the permissibility of violence against life as the highest value is carried out on the basis of fixed personal and environmental factors that determine the attitude to the value of life. The empirical base of the analysis is the data of the all-Russian population survey on a quota sample that represents the genderage structure and type of settlement. The total number of respondents was three thousand people. It is shown that the factors defining the value of life that determine the attitude of the population to the activities of extremist groups are the level of education, type of settlement and gender; life satisfaction; the level of tolerance to other views; features of behavior in conflict situations; the subjective significance of material, physical, and spiritual values. The methodological potential of the proposed approach for deeper reflection on the attitudes of the population to a particular perception in risk situations is substantiated, including the possibility of its application in the study of the status of public security in a new reality – in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.