SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES MONTHLY 2017 ¹ 10 ÑONTENTS. ÒHÅÎRY. ÌÅÒHÎDOLOGY. 19TH A. KHARCHEV READINGS 3 KRAVCHENKO S.A. Metamorphoses: essence, increasingly complex types, place in sociology of knowledge 15 SHMERLINA I.A. Metaphor as a cognitive obstacle (extmplyfied by the concept ”Institute”) 26 KACERAUSKAS T. Sociological investigations of creativity and the concept of creative society THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1917 REVOLUTIONS 36 TOSHCHENKO Zh.T. 1917: the time of transformation of ideas into material force 44 VODOLAZOV G.G. Politics and morality – Yuli Martov in 1917 DEMOGRAPHY. MIGRATION 56 RYBAKOVSKY L.L. Functions and consequences of migration processes 64 GAINANOV D.A., SHELOMENTSEV A.G., ATAEVA A.G. Transformation of population resettlement in the Urals and the Volga region after the reform of local self-government SOCIOLOGY OF GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION 77 SCHERBINA V.V., POPOVA E.P. Social change and development problems in special organizational theories 87 URZHA O.A. Social engineering as methodology of management activity 97 KUKSA L.P. Conceptual foundations of the social organisation theory of the future: an integral approach POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY 104 TROFIMOVA I.N. Elections as ritual: risks of de-politisation 113 KUCHENKOVA A.V. Russian intelligentsia and institutions: trust or alienation? SOCIOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 122 PETROVA E.V. Interaction of the Baikal region subjects with Mongolia and China in the new geopolitical situation 128 MEI ÑH., KHARLAMPIEVA N.K. The Making of population science in China 133 TSAURKUBULE Zh.L., MAHMUDOVA Ju.A. Socio-economic problems and disparities of the Latvian labor market SOCIOLOGICAL JOURNALISM 141 GOFMAN A.B. Too fast?! The culture of deceleration in the present-day world REFLECTING ON A NEW BOOK 151 ROMANOVSKIY N.V. A Scholar in the mine-bield of national issues ÀCADEMIC EVENTS 155 TSAPKO M.S., TSYBIKOVA D.G. Professional culture of Russian intellectuals 159 VASILKOVA V.V., PIVOVAROV A.M. Social communications: professional and everyday practices 161 PLATONOVA A.P. Professional specialist standard in sociology and marketing research: the prospects of application 163 SINELNIKOV A.B., GRUDINA T.N. VIII Ural demograpmic forum 164 BIYZHANOVA E.K. V International scientific conference in Magas 165 BOOK REVIEWS (reviewed are books: Galbraith: Return / Ed. S.D. Bodrunova. Moscow: Cultural Revolution, 2017. 424 p. revieved by Glaziev S.Yu.; Ivanov V.N. From 70 to 100. Reflections and memories. Moscow: “U Nikitskih vorot”, 2017. 168 p. revieved by Dmitriev A.V.) IN MEMORIAM 173 P. Berger 175 CONTENTS BOOKS SENT TO THE EDITORS (inside front cover) IN THE NEXT ISSUES (back cover)