Russian Studies in Culture and Society
ISSN (print): 2576-9782, ISSN (online): 2998-8292
Media registration certificate: ЭЛ № ФС 77 - 89428 от 06.05.2025
Founder
Science and Innovation Center Publishing House
Editor-in-Chief
Galina S. Shirokalova, Doctor of Sociology, Ph.D., Professor
Frequency / Access
4 issues per year / Open
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Higher Attestation Commission List, RISC
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Russian Studies in Culture and Society is a specialized academic peer-reviewed journal devoted to current problems of the life of society and culture and socio-cultural phenomena, presenting the results of modern scientific researches of social reality phenomena of the post-Soviet scientists and foreign researchers.
Journal subject headings
Theory, methodology and history of sociology;
Sociology of culture;
Theory and history of culture, art;
Museum studies, conservation and restoration of historical and cultural objects.
Current Issue
Vol 9, No 2 (2025)
- Year: 2025
- Published: 30.06.2025
- Articles: 7
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2576-9782/issue/view/19890
Статьи
Artificial Intelligence – Subject and Actor of Value Space
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the social, cultural and value space. It is noted that the initial status of AI as a technological phenomenon was the status of an object influenced by a person who created it and sets its action parameters. Using methods of analysis, synthesis, observation, description, interpretation and others, it is revealed that AI occupies a special position in comparison with other technological phenomena, having ceased to be only an object of the value space, having become a cultural phenomenon and having acquired the properties of a subject. AI itself has value, transmits a number of values (technological efficiency, knowledge, intelligence, education, science, ideas, creativity, etc.). In this, as well as in the formation of the AI culture as a special cultural layer, the subjectivity of AI in the value space is manifested. Further development of AI as a component of the value space is manifested in the fact that it is developing the properties of an actor. According to the actor-network theory of B. Latour, AI is a full-fledged actor of the social space, interacting with other actors and being an active agent. In the value space, the role of an actor is not fully performed by AI in its weak version. This role would be fully performed by a strong AI, which has not yet been created. It is concluded that AI is a complex phenomenon of the cultural field, combining the role of an object, subject and actor of the value space.



A value-based approach to the organization of medical care for the population (from the perspective of patients and medical professionals)
Abstract
Background. The article describes the basic principles of a new progressive model of medical care - value-oriented healthcare. All forms of currently existing forms of payment for medical services do not contribute to improving their quality, and very often even on the contrary contribute to an unjustified increase in the volume of services provided and costs. Important for the patient, the effectiveness of the outcome of the disease and, as a consequence, not only the duration, but also the quality of his life are ignored.
The aim of the work is to identify the most significant causes and disadvantages of the introduction of value-based healthcare.
Results: The article provides a review of both foreign and domestic experience in the implementation of a value-oriented approach in healthcare, describes the main barriers to the implementation of innovations. According to sources, the introduction of a value-oriented approach in medical practice contributes to improving the quality of medical care and optimizing costs. For more successful implementation, it is necessary to ensure the informatization of the treatment process, personnel training and a change in the interaction between the doctor and the patient, which should be based on mutual trust, respect, a change in the social role of the patient - an active participant in the treatment process. On the other hand, it is necessary to form an attitude among the population to their own health as the highest value, and when contacting a medical organization - to follow all the recommendations of the attending physician. Among the barriers preventing the introduction of a value-based approach in medical practice, among others, the widespread phenomenon of stigmatization in our society is highlighted.
Practical implications. The results of the study can be used in the development of programs aimed at the introduction of value-based healthcare.



Unsustainable youth employment in the digital economy: Cognitive dissonance and social mechanisms of adaptation
Abstract
The article examines the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance among young people employed in the digital economy, amid the growth of precarious employment in Russia. According to the Federal Tax Service and Rosstat, from 2020 to 2024, the number of self-employed people exceeded 12 million people, while young people actively choose platform employment, despite the awareness of its risks. The author analyzes this paradox through the prism of theories of cognitive dissonance (L. Festinger), risk society (U. Beck) and the precariat (G. Standing), revealing the contradiction between the rhetoric of "freedom" and real instability.
The empirical part of the study is based on a survey of 450 respondents (18-35 years old) living in different cities of Russia, employed on platforms (delivery, freelancing, taxi), and an analysis of digital communities. The results showed that 65-80% of workers experience dissonance (expressed in the contradiction between the declared "freedom" and actual dependence, the absence of a long-term work plan, the "demonization" of traditional labor, the illusion of autonomy, ignoring financial risks), rationalizing it with different psychological attitudes. The manifestation of dissonance is manifested at three levels: emotional, behavioral and social. These signs confirm that dissonance is not just an individual psychological conflict, but a systemic mechanism of adaptation to precarity.
Conclusions
- State policy (tax breaks without social guarantees) and the lack of transparency of algorithms exacerbate dissonance.
- Young people aged 18-25 and residents of small towns are more likely to justify precarity.
- Social consequences include increased inequality, postponement of family creation and "deferred poverty" due to the lack of pension savings.
The author proposes measures to reduce dissonance: regulation of algorithms, inclusion of the self-employed in the social security system, and the creation of legal associations to protect rights.



Multiple interpretations of images of Spain in vocal works of composers: Comparative analysis of romances based on Pushkin's poems
Abstract
Chamber vocal lyrics of Russian composers have been the subject of study for many researchers more than once. In this sense, the diversity of approaches and methods of study becomes interesting. One of them is the method of comparative analysis, which examines vocal works of different composers written to the same poem.
The poem by A.S. Pushkin "I am here, Inezilla!" was a source for the inspired embodiment of this romantic plot in music by many composers. And if the musical interpretation of this opus by M. Glinka, A. Dargomyzhsky, N. Medtner, V. Shebalin and T. Khrennikov is reflected both in the works of theoretical musicologists and in the concert practice of musicians-performers, then the romances of composers V. Kosenko and V. Deshevov are practically unknown.
The aim of the study is to analyze multiple authors' interpretations and creative solutions in composing romances based on A.S. Pushkin's poem "I Am Here, Inezilla!".
Materials and methods. The material for the study is the romances composed by various composers based on Alexander Pushkin's poem “I am here, Inesilla!” The main research method is comparative analysis, which allows comparing different phenomena in order to identify their common characteristics and differences.
Results. The author of the study summarized the theoretical and practical experience of working with both well-known romances (M. Glinka, A. Dargomyzhsky, N. Medtner) to the poem by A.S. Pushkin, and those that are practically never heard on stage (V. Deshevov, V. Kosenko, V. Shebalin, T. Khrennikov). The Spanish color of the Pushkin’s poem is realized in the romances in various ways.
Conclusion. In the composer’s practice the creation of the artistic image is facilitated by a variety of factors, among which are the choice of means of expression, the ability to build the process of the communication word-music, the using arsenal of the methods of composer’s technology which are fundamental.



Parody religions in the space of cultural and religious life of Russia: Results of expert interview
Abstract
Background. The article is devoted to the study of the so-called parody religions. Parody religions are religious movements that have gained popularity under the influence of mass culture at the beginning of the 21st century, the purpose of which is to mock and reduce to absurdity the doctrines and ritual practices of world religions through protest forms.
Purpose. The purpose of the study is to find out the potential for institutionalization of parody religions and their consolidation as the full-fledged participants in the socio-cultural and religious life in Russia.
Methodology. The work uses the method of expert interviews. Nine specialists (including Doctors of Philosophy and Doctors of Science) in the field of philosophy, psychology, religion, and mass media were selected as experts.
Results. The following conclusions were made in the work. The main purpose of creating parody religions is self-expression of young people and their unification in the fight against theism; the main factors of creation are secularization, westernization of Russian culture, and urbanization. The degree of influence of parody religions on Russian public culture is insignificant. Despite the lack of need for legal regulation of parody religions, they require public control, prevention of their transformation into destructive sects, etc.
Practical implications. The results can be applied when lecturing in the sociology of culture and the sociology of religion. The practical implication lies in the possibility of using separate materials of the work in the implementation of state confessional policy.



Images of the native region in the works of the Nizhny Novgorod artist-frontline soldier R. S. Grazhdaninov
Abstract
The aim of the article is to study the complex of artistic works of the veteran of the Great Patriotic War and amateur Nizhny Novgorod artist Rafael Semenovich Grazhdaninov (1924–1998) in order to identify the uniqueness of his artistic individuality and author's style. To achieve this goal, with the help of problem-chronological, comparative-historical, retrospective, factographic and descriptive scientific methods, the tasks of analyzing various works of the master are solved: oil paintings and numerous watercolor sketches, educational drawings from student works to the works of an honored master. The artistic work of R.S. Grazhdaninov is currently unknown to domestic researchers and is being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, therefore, addressing it within the framework of the formulated topic represents the novelty of this study. Despite the fact that the front-line artist R.S. Grazhdaninov did not have the opportunity to receive a professional art education, the originality and uniqueness of his paintings is evidenced by numerous awards for participation in exhibitions of works by amateur artists. The author comes to the conclusion that, while R.S. Grazhdaninov, the creator of front-line memoirs, captured on their pages all the hardships and horrors of war, in his works of art he presented a completely different side of his personality, a true patriot who loved his small homeland and sang of its unique beauty.



A.N. Tolstoy's works of 1917-1921: The types and role of artistic conventionality
Abstract
The article examines the multi-genre works by Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy from 1917 to 1921 − fairy tales, short stories, novellas and plays − in which various types of artistic conventions are used. The tasks of comparing these works are subordinated to the goal of identifying the role and types of artistic convention; for this purpose, the author uses comparative, problematic, chronological, cultural-historical and biographical methods. Such structuring and comprehensive study of different types of conventionality in this historical period has not been undertaken previously and represents the scientific novelty of the article. The author highlights the conventionality in fairy tales (“Fofka”, “The Soldier and the Devil”), the types of conventionality in realistic stories and the play “Danton's Death” − psychologically motivated fantasy (visions – “In Delirium”), (dreams – “A Dream in a Thunderstorm”, “Aunt Marya Grigoryevna”, “The Tale of the Time of Troubles”, “Danton's Death”), carnival conventionality in the play “Love is a Golden Book” and the story “Count Cagliostro” and comes to the conclusion that A.N. Tolstoy's appeal to the types of artistic conventionality was a consequence of his understanding of a complex historical era and the desire to convey it in all its multidimensionality and diversity.


