Abstract
The prerequisites for the research of the topic arise from the tasks of society modernization and social training of professional staff for these purposes. The latter has traditionally been based on sociology as a science appropriate to the present moment, studying societal problems at the group and individual levels of individual behavior. However, during the transition to the Bologna model of education, it was withdrawn from the Federal State Educational Standard for training future engineers and dramatically downgraded in status, which had a negative impact on their personal potential as professionals. This was stated by employers who had been given the task of using these graduates for the purposes of Russia’s transition to an information, robotic society. The purpose of the research is to draw the attention of society and the authorities to the importance of strengthening the social training of groups capable of keeping up with the scientific and technological progress of society, using the base of sociological knowledge. For the methodological basis of the topic were used: the sociology of higher education, theories of personal role behavior, as well as the concept of social humanism. Three sets of sources and literature on the topic have been studied, revealing the main problem of society, which centers on the situation with “artificial sociality” as a condition of socialization of student youth, and the conjunction of their behavior with “digital risks”; as well as the impact of these risks on both natural and social environments. It is argued that students who are already taking these risks today are potential creators of new “digital” and other technologies, who have not mastered the skills of forecasting social and professional behavior and have not formed themselves as a whole person. The hypothesis formulated in the article about the tendency to reduce the hours of social training in universities for engineering personnel has been confirmed. The reason for this trend is the neoliberal policy of austerity on education.
Highlights
The topic of the article is driven by the task of training engineering personnel capable of making a technological breakthrough in the transition to the information society as a necessary stage of the Knowledge Society [1]
The study of social training of specialists in a technical university in the conditions of mobilization transition to a robotic society is based on the methodological principles of Sociology of Higher Education [11], theories of role behavior of personality (Mareno, Parsons, Linton, Yadov), and the concept of social humanism [12]
Social quality of training of this personnel. It is recommended: 1) to change the vector of neoliberal reforms in higher technical education and rotate it in favor of the best national traditions of engineering education; 2) to overcome the tendency of excessive technocratic bias in engineering training and increase the importance of social training in it; 3) to return sociology to a place in the educational grid that is adequate to the tasks of competency-based training of engineers; 4) to restore the conditions of the educational environment inherent in the former technical universities, which were conducive to the academic success of students; 5) to ensure that in the educational environment of these universities all social agents trust each other
Summary
The topic of the article is driven by the task of training engineering personnel capable of making a technological breakthrough in the transition to the information society as a necessary stage of the Knowledge Society [1]. In an unstable economy, setting such an ambitious goal for its implementation in a fairly short time shows its mobilizing nature and involves the joint efforts of the authorities, production specialists, employers and the educational community in this direction, as it happened more than once in the history of our country. In this situation, it is obvious that such problems can only be solved by strengthening both the natural-technical bases of future engineers’ training and the social ones. This prepares them for an active role in professional activities, for positioning themselves in the hierarchy of groups at the cutting edge of scientific and technological progress
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