Introduction. The relevance of the sociological analysis of traditional values is determined by the need to regulate the growing contradictions between them and human rights at the national and international levels. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that the article highlights analytical perspectives that reveal the relationship of continuity and transformation in the activities of a public subject, and identifies starting points for using the potential of a sociological understanding of traditional values in socio-cultural design.Methodology and sources. The empirical base of the analysis was made up of official documents of the Russian Federation, materials of the UN Human Rights Council, expert assessments, the results of surveys of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion, materials of discussions in the Russian media. The methodology of the system approach, sociocultural analysis, social constructivism, the typological concept of cultural and historical tradition is used.Results and discussion. In the logic of socio–cultural analysis, traditional values are components of a traditional type of collective organization and a way of transmitting them in a two-part experience that is different from ideological indoctrination. Sociological reflection makes it possible to distinguish them from the values of “traditional society” as a passed stage of social evolution. The system paradigm in sociology conceptualizes the irreducible complexity of values: they are cultural objects, internalized by the individual, institutionalized in the social system. A social subject, through a value-based attitude to heritage, reflexively and constructively establishes cultural and historical traditions as the selected samples of its development are implemented in changing conditions. Fundamental human rights are ensured by access to the resources of their culture. The protection of human rights includes the strengthening of traditional institutions and cultural diversity as conditions for the harmony of intercivilizational and intra-social values. The manifestation of adherence to traditional values in the context of the crisis of globalization is due to the desire to reveal the pathological nature and to stop, through legal, military-political and ideological tools, technically achievable ways of remaking a person who have ceased to be subjected to criminal prosecution and unconditional moral condemnation.Conclusion. Actualization of meaningful samples of cultural and historical traditions in the socio-political discourse indicates directions for socio-cultural design and performs ideological mobilization tasks.

Introduction. The article deals with the problem of professional activity and education of persons with disabilities. The implementation of the ideas of inclusive education could be successful if the experience of persons with disabilities who have productively built their professional trajectory and actively participate in public, educational, sociocultural and other initiatives of modern society is taken into account.Methodology and sources. The problem of professional and creative realization of people with disabilities is considered in line with the socio-educational approach, which implies the need to integrate people with disabilities into all spheres of modern society, as well as in line with the environmental approach, which involves considering the problem of the quality of life of people with disabilities. The article is based on the articles of such authors as O.S. Andreeva, A.V. Gruzintsev, M.A. Dymochka, A.A. Kirillovykh, S.N. Kashtanova, V.A. Kudryavtsev, S.S. Lebedeva, N.T. Selezneva, A.V. Cherdakova, as well as materials of 25 scientific and practical conferences (1994–2020). The article uses methods of content analysis of an array of 1553 articles based on conference materials, as well as the case study method.Results and discussion. In the process of evaluating the array of publications, the authors concluded that persons with disabilities actively participating in professional activities and social work reflected many aspects of the problem of inclusive education. Theoretical and practical conclusions and examples given in the case study showed that the experience of people with disabilities working in the socio-cultural and educational fields, who develop the inclusive capabilities of people with disabilities with the help of advanced digital technologies, seems to be especially successful. An analysis of the professional activities of persons with disabilities led to the conclusion that its meaning and essence are associated with the formation of an inclusive society.Conclusion. The authors conclude that people with disabilities are the initiators and organizers of relevant areas of activity that contribute to the active support of people with disabilities in the process of their lifelong education.

Introduction. The article analyzes the semiotic aspects of the representation of artificial intelligence in the socio-cultural space and their influence on the nature of social development. The spread and penetration of technologies into social and political processes using artificial intelligence (AI) is accompanied by active discussions in the socio-political environment. Artificial intelligence is considered as one of the most important resources of social and political development, so the desire of states, politicians and public organizations to determine the semantic framework of its public perception is understandable.Methodology and sources. The theoretical foundations of the work were the classic works on semiotics by Ch. S. Pierce, Ch. W. Morris, as well as theoretical works on modern political semiotics (I.V. Fomin, M.V. Ilyin and others). To work with the empirical base, analyzes of documents (reports and materials from UNESCO, the European Commission, the Royal Society of London, Stanford University), public opinion polls (VTsIOM), discourse analysis, semantic and content analysis of materials from Russian and foreign media were used.Results and discussion. As a result of the study, we found that the main contradiction that accompanies the understanding of artificial intelligence, its essence and purpose at all levels of socio-political discourse is the polarization of public ideas about AI as a control tool and (or) a development tool. The contextual fields were also outlined, within which further development of the semiosis of artificial intelligence is possible.Conclusion. To understand the nature of the representation of technologies using AI in socio-political discourse and to manage this process, an interdisciplinary approach and an appeal to the scientific potential of the social sciences and the humanities, in particular, semiotics, are appropriate, which makes it possible to study the semiosis of technology at the semantic, syntactic and pragmatic levels. It also seems promising to turn to a comparative analysis of cultural and historical traditions and national-state models of social management that specifically integrate AI into social processes.

Introduction. The problem of human being as a subject of the historical space-time continuum is actualized by social transformations and the change of types of rationality. The anthropological nature of space-time determines the interest in reflection on human being as a historical individual. We could note an increased interest in spatial and temporal problems in Russian philosophical thought in the realities of the 20th century. The perception of historical time in its daily eventfulness brings us closer to understanding the fate of society in this period of Russian history that cannot be unambiguously assessed.Methodology and sources. The author relied on the provisions of philosophical anthropology about the human dimension of historical time and space. The initial basis of the research was the provisions of the author's concept of the unity of a human being and the space-time continuum. The anthropological content of historical space-time analytics predetermined the use of systemic, culturological and axiological approaches. The system approach has determined the application of source studies, phenomenological and hermeneutic analysis of the studied phenomena.Results and discussion. The importance of anthropocentrism for understanding historical individuality is substantiated. The author made an attempt to overcome the extremes of the anthropocentric and progressive models of the historical process on the basis of the unity of anthropocentrism, cultural centrism and sociocentrism. History is revealed as the time and space of self-realization of its subjects. The understanding of history is derived from a person's ability to experience and organize events. Also in the article is stated the necessity of incorporation of personal time and private space into the historical process as its constructs. It is shown that the knowledge of history is the result of the identification of I and We.Conclusion. The author reveals the thesis about human being as a historical personality. The anthropological nature of historical space-time determines the meanings, contributes to the ordering of everyday events by the subjects of history, provides an opportunity to determine the vector of cognition of history.

Introduction. The current stage of social development is characterized by large-scale changes in the social composition of the economically active population. The transformation of its territorial differentiation has become one of the development vectors, and it is expressed in a new quantitative and qualitative ratio of the urban and rural labour force, structural features of territorial employment, general characteristics of regional labour markets, increasing income inequality, etc. The study of these social phenomena is a necessary condition for elabouration of the concept of sustainable and stable development of both different regions and the world community as a whole.Methodology and sources. The methodological basis of the study was the classification of the territorial division of the population used by the International Labour Organization. There were analyzed and compiled the official statistics presented in the organization's reports. Descriptive statistics methods were applied. Regression analysis was used to establish a statistically significant relationship between the annual GDP growth rate per employee and the share of people employed in the service sector.Results and discussion. The global change in the state and trends of the development of territorial differentiation of the economically active population in the 20th century determined the need to correctly correlate the laws of world urbanization with its regional characteristics when analyzing the process itself and its results in countries of various types. This process has led to changes in the industrial, professional, property and gender parameters of the urban and rural labour market.Conclusion. An analysis of regional differences in the modern labour market revealed such trends as the growth of the urban economically active population, the predominance of the urban labour force over the rural, the predominant employment of the urban population in the service-producing sector of the economy, income inequality and access to work in urban and rural areas, differences in property status, gender inequality of the urban and rural labour forces, etc. Taking into account these characteristics should be a prerequisite for the development of the concept of sustainable and stable development of both individual regions and the world community as a whole.

A Theory of Suspended Animation: The Aesthetics and Politics of (E)motion and Stillness Daisy Yan Du (bio) Animation has long been defined and analyzed as an art of movement. Drawing attention to the fluid movement of outlines in animated cartoon characters, Sergei Eisenstein proposes the concept of “plasmaticness,” which refers to the stretching, elongating, inflating, deflating, transforming, and deforming of bodily forms, registering “a rejection of once-and-forever allotted form, freedom from ossification, the ability to dynamically assume any form.”1 Animation has also been regarded as a moving art, capable of moving and transforming itself across media, space, and time.2 Other scholars, such as Sianne Ngai, draw attention to the affective dimensions of animation by foregrounding its power in expressing emotions and moving audiences.3 Following this train of thought, we can see how Monkey, the main character of the epic Chinese classical novel Journey to the West, has become a defining figure of Chinese animation because Monkey embodies the animation principles of movement and plasmaticness. The first animated feature film in China, and indeed Asia, was Princess Iron Fan (Tieshan gongzhu, Wan Laiming and Wan Guchan, 1941), featuring the battle between Monkey and the Bull Demon King. Uproar in Heaven (Danao tiangong, Wan Laiming and Tang Cheng, 1961–1964), [End Page 42] revolving around Monkey’s rebellion against the Jade Emperor, represented the highest achievement of Chinese cel animation. Even the more recent Monkey King: Hero Is Back (2015) marked the renaissance of Chinese animation in the digital age.4 Moreover, the origin of anime’s media mix in Japan today can be traced back to Monkey. According to a report from Japan-occupied Manchukuo (1932–1945), when Princess Iron Fan was released in Japan in 1942, toys featuring Monkey and other characters were selling well at many department stores, especially among Japanese people.5 Monkey’s prominence in Chinese animation, and thus the prominence of conceptualizing animation as movement, provokes questions about Chinese animation’s less explored side: if Monkey is the prime figure of Chinese animation, who is not? If Monkey has been overanimated in the history of Chinese animation, who remains less animated or even unanimatable? If Monkey represents animation’s fundamental principles of constant motion and plasmatic movement, who represents inertia, stasis, inanimation, de-animation, and even resistance against animation? If “the medium is the message,” what does it mean to use animation to animate or not animate someone or something?6 While Monkey is not the focus here, these questions draw the contours of the aims of this essay. Generally speaking, animation is often used to portray animals, supernatural and fantastic beings, and less privileged and socially marginalized people, such as children and racialized Others. In my study of animation during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), I observe that ethnic minorities have been over animated in terms of both quantity and quality in the history of Chinese animation. First, numerous animated films have portrayed ethnic minorities as objects of representation, leading to the rise of the “minority genre” in Chinese animation. Second, ethnic girls in animation frequently undergo metamorphosis, or the plasmatic bodily transformation from human to animal, and are often portrayed with excessive physical gestures and movements. This kind of quantitative and qualitative excess is what I call the “overanimation” of ethnic minorities.7 While I mainly focus on the connection between physical movements and ethnicity, Sianne Ngai draws attention to the ties between emotions and race as represented in animated American TV series. She notes a kind of “exaggerated emotional expressiveness” and “liveliness” (overemotionality), which she calls “animatedness,” in the representation of racialized Others, African Americans in particular.8 Drawing on Rey Chow’s ideas in “Post-modern [End Page 43] Automatons,” Ngai suggests that such “animatedness,” rather than liberating racialized bodies from their ossified forms à la Eisenstein, reveals the very racialized otherness and social powerlessness of the animated objects who, due to their subjection to power, become “a spectacle whose aesthetic power increases with one’s increasing awkwardness and helplessness.”9 In animation, the racialized Others, overcharged with animatedness as aesthetic objects, are impotent social beings incapable of political agency and action. Rather than focusing on...

Introduction. The era of the Covid-19 pandemic has had a serious impact on changes in various areas of our society, and also predetermined the transformation of the Russian tourism industry. The purpose of the work is to identify new trends in Russian tourism in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.Methodology and sources. The study used the method of selective observation and the method of forecasting, carried out the sociological analysis of the works of modern scientists N.A. Voskolovich, I.V. Loguntsova, B.M. Eidelman, O.A. Bunakov, L.R. Fakhrutdinova, V. Durly and the large-scale study of the impact of the pandemic on the tourism industry in Russia (906 respondents).Results and discussion. The author has deepened his understanding of the process of de-globalization in relation to Russian tourism during a pandemic. The pandemic is accelerating de-globalization, the megatrend that could become strategic in tourism for the foreseeable future. This experience will contribute to the emergence and popularization of new tourism trends: the increase in the number of travel near the place of residence and within the country, the spread of digitalization, the personalization of travel offers, travel planning with safety in mind and attention to the sanitary and epidemiological situation, an increase in ecotourism and excursion tourism, an increase in the number of car trips, as well as the reorientation of some tourists from hotels to short-term rental housing.Conclusion. From a futuristic perspective, the pandemic has greatly benefited the panorama of events unfolding before our eyes. The pandemic, speaking in futuristic terms, can be classified as a “black swan”. This is the social experiment on a global scale, which determines the emergence of new tourism trends, and also forms in the eyes of the public the special attitude towards Russian tourism as a truly important industry.

Introduction. The present study examines the pragmastilistic potential of migration discourse based on the speeches of modern British politicians. The relevance of the chosen topic lies in the acute social specifics of migration discourse and its manipulative component. In today’s world, migration processes have become global and their impact on the development of the host culture is becoming increasingly evident. There is still no established strategy for the integration of migrants into the new society, which creates a conflict environment and determines the hostility of the indigenous population towards migrants. Migration discourse as one of the directions of policy discourse becomes an effective tool for managing public opinion. Various persuasive tactics are incorporated in the speech of politicians using linguistic means, the use of which in the British migration discourse is considered in this article.Methodology and sources. The key tasks of the study are to identify specific discursive tactics, by means of which the persuasive strategy is implemented in the British migration discourse, and to analyze the stylistic techniques used to design the discovered tactics. During the study, pragmastilistic analysis was used, the application of which involves referring to the following methods of linguistic research: the method of continuous sampling, quantitative, descriptive and comparative methods, the method of stylistic analysis, discursive analysis. The material of the study was the speeches of modern British politicians from 2004 to 2021. Results and discussion. The analysis of migration discourse based on the texts of speeches by modern British politicians allows to talk about the stylistic saturation of the material and the main means of expressiveness used in the framework of the discourse under consideration. The main tactic of opponents of free migration is the comparison of “good/bad” migrants, which is actualized using antithesis. As for the lexical stylistic means, the use of the epithet should be specified, which is also a way of actualizing opposition tactics. Thus, this tactic is implemented both at the lexical and syntactic level. Similar tactics are also relevant in the framework of pro-migration rhetoric, namely, when comparing the local elite and the visiting population, which performs all the work necessary for the functioning of society. In most cases the main stylistic technique for tactics actualization is antithesis (or the convergence of antithesis and epithet). Proponents of pro-migration policies also use metaphor (tactics for describing the political process) and syntactic parallelism (tactics for describing the benefits of migration). Finally, the most common tactic inherent in both poles of migration discourse is the tactic of generalization. It consists in equating the speaker with his audience, their “fusion”, and is most often actualized using hyperbola.Conclusion. Migration discourse is characterized by an ideological orientation, which is actualized using certain speech techniques, tactics and strategies. Migration discourse, as a multifaceted entity, can also serve to harmonize social life by facilitating the integration of migrants into the host culture. Migration discourse is a powerful ideological weapon that can be used both to contribute to integration and to incite ethnic hatred. Stylistic tools play a key role in the implementation of a persuasive strategy, which is actively used both in migration and in political discourse in general. The main tactics of the migration discourse of modern British politicians are opposition and generalization, used both in pro- and anti-migration rhetoric.

Introduction. The paper deals with the philosophical problems of the modern dialogue between cosmology and theology. It is argued that no existential contradiction is possible between them as originating in one and the same human condition. The difference between cosmology and theology amounts to the difference in their open-ended hermeneutics of the outer world. It is from within this philosophical conclusion that the hot issue of the dialogue are discussed and some insights are proposed.Methodology and sources. The philosophical analysis is based on the discussion of epistemological issues in modern cosmology and their relevance to theological view of the world. The method is similar to existential phenomenology’s approach to the constitution of the notion of the universe in cosmology and theology as an open-ended hermeneutics of the world.Results and discussion. It is shown that no existential contradiction is possible between two types of hermeneutics as originating in one and the same human condition. It is human being that becomes the major theme of the dialogue between cosmology and theology.On the basis of the conclusions made the paper discusses some “hot” issues in the contemporary cosmology-theology discussion, including: 1) The inseparability of cosmology and theology in justification of the possibility of cosmological knowledge, 2) Fine-tuning, Anthropic principle, fitness of the universe for life, 3) The unknowability of the universe and apophaticism in cosmology, 4) Multiple universes and their ontology, 5) How much of life is in the universe: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), exoplanets and theological consequence for multiple incarnations, 6) The origin of the universe in modern scientific cosmology and its relevance to the theologically understood creatio ex nihilo, 7) Consciousness and the universe: can cosmology account for its own possibility without appealing to the theologically understood human capacity in producing an intellectual synthesis of the universe.Conclusion. On the basis of the methods applied to the hot issues in the dialogue between cosmology and theology one concludes that the dialogue between cosmology and theology is an open-ended enterprise related to the fundamentally concealed origins of humanity and universe. The difference is hermeneutics of the universe does not create any contradiction or tension but reflects a dualistic position of humanity in the universe, being an insignificant part of it and at the same time its center of disclosure and manifestation.