The article considers how elderly people use different types of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and studies their readiness to use ICT in everyday life, based on the data obtained in a sociological survey. We made a hypothesis that age has an effect on older people's attitudes towards ICT. In this article ICT will include the Internet, mobile devices and on-line banking. We discovered the types of ICT which will be used by older people in their everyday lives. We stipulated four areas of the use of ICT in older people's lives such as financial, administrative, accessible and entertainment. During our research we concluded that respondents aged 55 to 64 are more active in using IT and demonstrate their interest in different spheres of everyday life. We also concluded that there were no differences in the results between genders. Overall, the sociological survey has indicated that more than 42% of respondents have the skills to use modern Information Technologies. It has been noted that over the past years the government has been encouraging older people to use ICT in their lives. The government in the Tomsk region is also working to achieve this. http://dx
Abstract. The paper presents the study of the problem of social well-being of elderly people and analyses the outcome of appraisals given by elderly people to their own health and health maintenance activities. Basing on the sociological tradition of studying a social well-being and health phenomenon, the authors have identified the peculiarities of social practices of elderly people living in Tomsk Oblast and correlated social well-being of elderly people with their own health appraisals. The paper gives the survey results (the sample included 400 persons) that allow evaluating the degree of satisfaction with life, health, material status, social activity and identifying life preferences, values and orientations of the elderly in Tomsk Oblast. During the problem studying the hermeneutical approach and the methods of comparative analysis and mathematical statistics were applied.
The paper presents the analysis of interaction between the social welfare and sustainable development. The aim of this paper is to show that the social development mostly depends on community values that form the pathway of the social movement. It is shown that mankind can influence the future choosing the optimum way of its development. Therefore, it is necessary to appreciate personal aspects of sociogenesis and a mechanism of its functioning, differences between social and natural dynamics. From the authors’ viewpoint, a philosophical understanding of sustainability by means of welfare as a regulation mechanism, is one of approaches to the study of social life and social development. A model of socio-practical man's existence mostly oriented towards satisfaction of needs helps to analyze the relationship between the categories under review. The more so as an ordinary intake of consumer amenities transforms to the instrument of construction od social identity, the sociocultural integration of individual with society. Social welfare is presented as a multiple-factor construct represented by a synthesis of cause and effect. Explication technique, hermeneutical approach, and comparison study are used to clarify basic notions of this research
The results of the survey carried out by the authors and devoted to studying ideal and real image of a partner in the view of young people of the modern Russian society are given and analyzed. The objective of the article is to analyze the view of young people on an ideal partner and to find to what extent an ideal image matches a real one. The issues of images of an ideal and real partner correspondence, similarities and differences in choosing a partner by young men and women are analyzed, social and role expectations in family relationship are found. The conclusions about young people marriage intentions are made on the basis of young men and women opinions about an ideal partner. The main methods used in research are survey, content analysis and mathematical statistics approaches
Society's attitude to investments in human beings changed due to the ideas contained in the theory of human capital. Nowadays it is proved – these investments provide a production effect, the benefits for the individual and the benefits to the government. We can say that investments in the education today become tomorrow a competitive advantage. Therefore the well-being and sustainable economic development of nations depend on the human capital. That is why the paper considers human well-being and its key factors, the relationship between the human well-being and human capital, and criteria for estimation of investment efficiency in education. The quantitative analysis was carried out using dependencies between education and wages, graduates’ wages and their profession, education and unemployment. Non-monetary income from educational investments is shown in this paper. A conclusion is made about the benefits from educational investments and their impact on human well-being. It is proposed to pursue a special policy in the field of development of human resources and investments in the human capital
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