political elite

The paper dwells on studying one of the most important processes defining the quality potential of the modern elite – recruiting elite groups. The political elite recruiting peculiarities defining this process, social factors and mechanisms are revealed. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the basic stages of the political elite recruiting at the regional level: Stage I – “quasi-free convergence” (1991–1993); Stage II – mutational (1994–2000); Stage III – “elite controlled recruiting” (2001–2011); Stage IV – mixed (hybrid) (2012 – present time).

The article discusses the features of the study of elite layers in the writings of the sociologist populists. Special attention is drawn to a distinctive direction of populist sociology as a subjective sociology, represented primarily by P. L. Lavrov and N. K. Mikhailovsky. We give a general description of the sociological views of sociologistpopulist trends, the factors that determine the specificity of its formation in the Russian society and the base of «critically thinking individuals» theories P. L. Lavrov and «heroes» N. K.

This article explores the idea of national self-determination of South Ossetia in the context of the separation of Ossetian people. The author tries to explore the influence of the situation of ethnic division on the formation of the South Ossetian national idea and the role this situation has played in the process of final implementation of this idea.

The article deals with the peculiarities of the positional approach formation in home sociology of the political elite. The formation factors are being revealed and a characteristic of the main tendencies of the positional approach development in the analysis of the political elite in home sociology