SCENARIO FOR PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF RUSSIAN MEGAPOLISES (USING THE EXAMPLE OF ‘WHITE COLLAR’ WORKERS)

Oxana Posukhova,Ludmila Klimenko,Pavel Zayats,Oxana Nor-Arevyan

doi:10.12955/cbup.v6.1238

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Abstract

Scenarios for professional identity development are studied using level-based sociological analysis, i.e., at a social micro-level in a group of peer professionals and at an institutional macro-level in a social and professional structure of a megapolis. Based on the research, in which ‘white collar’ workers were chosen as a reference group, the authors conclude that a professional identity in a megapolis experiences multidirectional influence of imitative professionalism. In addition, an identification model matrix is formed that focuses on professional identity as a self-identification that self-attributes to a group of professionals as a power with active social and civil position. The discovered trends are reviewed at macro- and micro-levels.

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Russia experienced a long and convoluted passage to urbanization up until the middle of the 1980s
Russia remains a country of medium-sized cities and towns, during the post-Soviet period, megapolises were the center of social and professional mobility and influenced the direction of territorial mobility within the country
In the context of this apparent theoretical and practical interest, this study examines the professional identities of the megapolis population

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Russia experienced a long and convoluted passage to urbanization up until the middle of the 1980s. Russia remains a country of medium-sized cities and towns, during the post-Soviet period, megapolises were the center of social and professional mobility and influenced the direction of territorial mobility within the country. Territorial, and regional disproportions, the megapolises, on the one hand, serve as centers of economic, social, and cultural development. As noted earlier by Chicago School sociologists (Park, 2007), megapolises form a specific social background. That is, they are anonymous in terms of social communication, are regulated through informal social control, and the lives of different population strata are segmented. In the context of this apparent theoretical and practical interest, this study examines the professional identities of the megapolis population

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