Socio-political Development Research Articles

Examining the Sociopolitical Development of Immigrant-Origin Youth During a Season of Social Unrest.

The sociopolitical context for immigrant-origin (I-O) youth's civic development in the U.S. has dramatically shifted in the years following the 2016 election (e.g., heightened xenophobia). I-O children comprise 26% of young people in the U.S. and include those born outside the U.S. (first generation) and those with at least one parent born outside the U.S. (second generation). Using a qualitative approach, this study examined how I-O youth (N = 65, M = 16.22 years) experienced and engaged with the phenomena of the 2020 election season amidst recent economic, political, and social consequences from the pandemic and the current social movements against systemic racism. Findings expand our understanding of how I-O youth engage as political actors by examining the processes surrounding their sociopolitical development.

The Political Dominance of the Bugis in the Coastal Region of Indonesia from the 17th Century to the 19th Century

The inter-royal conflict and the control of Makassar by the VOC in South Sulawesi in the 16th to 17th centuries had a major impact on the socio-political development of the Bugis. This condition made the Bugis make a large-scale migration. Bugis local culture also spread to various regions along with the migration process. The control of Makassar port by the Dutch colonial made the Bugis feel driven from Makassar. In this migration process, there are groups that choose to trade. While the rest settled outside Sulawesi. The Bugis became nomads in various regions of the archipelago, mostly living in coastal areas, which later built up political power. In their development, they became successful nomads, especially in the political field, especially in some coastal areas, such as Bali, West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, Sumbawa, and in the Malay Peninsula. The Bugis managed to establish good communication with the local population. They are also a highly respected community group in overseas territories

Features of the Political Process in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (1997-2021)

The article contains analysis of political transformations in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) in the 1997-2021 aiming to identify its political process’ features within the framework of «one country, two systems» model. A brief description of Hong Kong’s political life events in preceding decades is given, which reflects the key tendencies of Hong Kong’s socio-political development under the British colonial rule. It is stated that establishing of the new political order in the SAR by PRC, intended to form a more accountable administrative model, is realized using the traditional Chinese scheme, which implies establishing China’s unconditional dominance and control over the local administrations’ activity. According to this, institutional transformations were implemented resulting in recentralization of power in the hands of the SAR’s government, also administrative model was changed. The consequences of this shift were series of mass protest actions and reinforcement of political discord in public and government circles. The authors come to the conclusion about conflictive character of Hong Kong’s political process, periodically proceeding on the brink of stability disruption. Currently, prospects of its democratization appear to be unlikely.

Digital transformation of civil protest participation in contemporary Russia

The problem of effective civic participation and constructive political protest in contemporary Russia is one of the most urgent because of both the ongoing nation-building, and for strengthening and expanding mass legal awareness, activating social forces in the cause of sustainable socio-political development. In this regard, the article analyzes the process of digital transformation of Russian civil protest participation. The study is based on the provisions of systemic, neoinstitutional and comparative analysis, using a statistical method. The authors noted that the political protest of citizens using digital technologies is characterized by a non-violent and peaceful nature, carried out mainly in social networks and cross-platform messengers, as well as in mobile applications (such as maps with the ability to label and comment).

Гендерно-маркированная асимметрия в русском и китайском языках

The aim of the study is to identify the features of gender-marked asymmetry in the Russian and Chinese languages. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time, basing on the theory of markedness, a comparative analysis of gender-marked asymmetry in the vocabulary of the two languages is carried out. As a result, the features of formal, semantic, distributive marking of gender vocabulary are revealed. The obtained results have shown that the gender vocabulary of the Russian and Chinese languages has a clear marked asymmetry, which is a concentrated expression of the national culture, socio-cognitive characteristics and socio-political development of the two countries.

Exploring moderators of the relationship between adolescents' social responsibility and civic actions

AbstractScholars have regarded social responsibility as a motivator of civic actions. Social responsibility, however, does not consistently lead to civic actions. Informed by sociopolitical development theory and social cognitive theory, the present study examined critical reflection about societal inequalities and intentional self‐regulation as potential moderators of the relationships between adolescents' social responsibility and political activities, social activism and community service. Survey data were collected from 737 adolescents in the Northeastern United States (Mage = 14.52, 58.2% girls, 57.5% White/European American). Path analysis indicated that social responsibility was associated with all three types of civic actions, and critical reflection moderated the relationship between social responsibility and political activities. We discussed limitations, implications and directions for future research. See Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement.

Sociopolitical Development as Emotional Work: How Young Organizers Engage Emotions to Support Community Organizing for Transformative Racial Justice

A theoretical and empirical reflection on the possibilities of broadening sociopolitical development (SPD) to consider how emotional work contributes to the development of a sociopolitical emotional awareness among young organizers resisting racial injustices is discussed. Sociopolitical emotional awareness brings together the intellectual and the emotional through sociopolitical engagement practices of discerning emotions through critical reflection, de/re-centering emotions and anchoring affirming emotions. We observed these practices among young organizers in youth community organizing (YCO) settings where SPD was a priority yet emotional work surfaced as an important component. We offer a conceptual framework for emotional work that extends SPD and is informed by analyses of our interview and fieldnote data of three YCO sites that supported youth in their organizing. Through this work we aim to expand current SPD theorizing, while challenging existing youth development frameworks that overlook the role of emotions in relation to collection action aimed at actualizing transformative racial justice. We conclude with implications and future directions on the significance of emotional work within YCO settings in particular. Moreover, we see emotions as essential to a young organizer’s SPD, inclusive of their efforts toward actualizing equitable, healthy and thriving anti-racist school and community environments.

“They Need to Hear Our Voices”: A Multidimensional Framework of Black College Women’s Sociopolitical Development and Activism

Black women have played an integral role in Black liberation struggles. Yet there is little psychological scholarship on Black women’s contribution to social justice movements, particularly beyond conventional forms of activism, such as protesting and voting. To address this gap, the current study draws on Black feminist epistemology to present a multidimensional framework of Black college women’s sociopolitical development. Using consensual qualitative research methods, we analyzed semistructured interview data from 65 Black college women (18-24 years) to explore their understandings of agency, civic engagement, and resistance. Eight themes emerged— gaining knowledge, self-advocacy, sisterhood, self-love, educating others, collective organizing and leadership, community care, and career aspirations. Our results situate Black college women’s activism within a sociohistorical framework of Black feminist organizing and underscore the overlapping roles of self-awareness, interpersonal relationships, and institutional knowledge. The authors discuss how the contemporary racial and sociopolitical climate in the United States informed the participants’ social justice orientation and how their involvement and investment in the Black community helped the participants reframe racial violence and oppression into narratives of resistance and healing.

Источниковая база истории Калмыкии: проблемы и пути их решения

Introduction. The article examines issues of accumulation, formation, preservation, usage arrangements, and peculiarities of historical sources in accordance with the adopted periodization of Kalmykia’s history by geographic and chronological parameters (the Central Asian and European periods, respectively) from earliest to modern times. Historical sources from the mentioned periods differ in degrees of preservation, volume and availability. Goals. So, the paper aims at surveying actual circumstances to have influenced the shaping of Kalmykia’s historical scientific sources and arrangements undertaken to have facilitated the use of multiple documents in exploring events of the past. For that purpose, the work shall attempt to identify certain unbiased factors of sociopolitical development at different stages of history (in a temporal perspective), determine roles and impacts of respective government agencies (depositories) of Russia in the shaping and accumulation of sources in Kalmykia’s history and development of archival affairs nationwide. Materials and methods. The study primarily employs diverse reference apparatuses of public and departmental depositories, collected documents, and data from scientific publications. The research principles are those of historicism, objectivity, comprehensiveness. Results. The Kalmyk people’s history is characterized by an extensive documentary base that includes different types of sources currently housed by federal and regional archives all across Russia. However, the problems of the former’s further growth and usage arrangements can be successfully solved under certain circumstances.

Indian Studies in Soviet Social Studies

The article is focused on the evolution of Soviet Indian studies in the course of the 1970s and 1980s, i.e. the period of the discipline’s indisputable academic upsurge. The present author maintains that factors instrumental of Indian studies’ ascendant development were many; among the latter foreign policy imperatives as well as high quality intellectual talent available are distinguished to explain the advancement of this area of social science research to the status of socially significant professional activities. Socio-economic, history and political studies are taken to demonstrate the academic accomplishments of Soviet scholars who exploited their own “wisdom” to comprehend India’s complex social reality and, also, utilized critical assessment of the existent social science research paradigms circulating in Indian scholarship. The “crisis” of Indian studies dating back to the late 1980s is discussed in basic aspects. The social and political origins of the “crisis” are being highlighted. The evolution of Soviet Indian studies during the late 1980s is investigated at the backdrop of sociopolitical development in the years preceding the USSR’s dismemberment. Tentative factors instrumental of the eventual “comeback” of Indian studies as an academic discipline of high societal stature are estimated.

Sociopolitical development of female migrant domestic workers in Southern Spain: A qualitative study of a pathway against injustice

AbstractDomestic work is a sector characterized by various forms of injustice, prompting some women to embark on a pathway towards activism. Based on the Sociopolitical Development (SPD) framework, this study aims to explore female Latin American migrants' experiences of injustice in the domestic work sector in Spain and how they challenge them, particularly when they become involved in organized collective action. To this end, in‐depth interviews were conducted with 11 women of Latin American origin who actively participate in the Association of Domestic Workers of Seville. The qualitative analysis found that being a domestic worker, having experiences of exploitation, discovering rights, receiving rights training, sharing stories of oppression, and engaging in sociopolitical actions are key experiences in guiding migrant women from the acritical and adaptive stages of SPD towards the pre‐critical, critical, and liberation ones. Knowledge about these significant life‐changing events may be useful for designing interventions aimed at fostering different ways in which oppressed groups can challenge injustice.

Youth are watching: Adolescents’ sociopolitical development in the Trump era

This study examined whether appraisals of 45th U.S. President Donald J. Trump by 1433 adolescents (Mage =16.1, SDage =1.16, Female=56.9%, Latinx=43.6%, White=35.7%, Black=12.6%, Asian=5.8%) predicted change from 2017 to 2018 across four dimensions of sociopolitical development (SPD): marginalization, critical analysis, civic efficacy, and political action. Trump supporters declined in awareness of inequality and race consciousness but increased in voting intentions. Trump detractors increased in awareness of inequality, race consciousness, and experiences of discrimination. Trump supporters and detractors increased in civic efficacy compared to youth with no opinion. Additional findings were moderated by race and ethnicity. Findings suggest adolescents' SPD has been shaped in distinct ways by the Trump era.

Eurasian Structuralism

The article examines the socio-political consequences of the structural-linguistic concepts of N.P. Trubetskoy and R.O. Jacobson, as well as the structural-geographical theory of P.N. Savitsky. These scientists, who were the pioneers of the structuralism of the twentieth century, were at the same time the founders of the Eurasian movement, which tried to compete with the Bolshevik doctrine in 1920-1930s. The sociolinguistic principle of linguistic unions and the morphological concept postulated by N.S. Trubetskoy became the basis for the semantic picture of the Eurasian space proposed by R.O. Jacobson, which resulted in a socio-political development construct that has not exhausted its potential so far. The morphological and phonological approaches of these two linguists were supported by the structural-geographical concept of P.N. Savitsky, who showed the prerequisites for the emergence of a Eurasian community not only at the linguistic, but also at the geographical and economic levels. Linguists pointed to the connection between language and thinking, which forms the idea of extant and due, which gave arguments for the assertion of the axiological proximity of the Eurasian peoples. Geographer P.N. Savitsky confirmed these conclusions with his research on the formation of the economic kinship of the population of Eurasia on the basis of a single space. Using these concepts, Russian structuralists created a socio-political doctrine about the special role of Eurasia, its separate path, opposite to the western direction of development. Applying certain provisions of F. de Saussure, the founders of Eurasianism created the teleological syntagma ideocracy - demotia - soviet, which determined the structure of the Eurasian socio-political space. The combination of elements of the Eurasian structure is interpreted collinearly of the triad proposed by F. de Saussure langage - langue - parole. The ideocratic system, verified by demotia, determines the activities of the soviets. It follows from this that the teleological syntagma of the Eurasianists, ideocracy - demotia - soviet, was the antithesis of the Bolshevik syntagma communism - Soviet authority - soviet. Ideocracy here is the opposition to communism, and demotia is opposition to Soviet authority. Thus, the structure of the Eurasian state was finally determined. Ideocracy was understood by the Eurasians as a political system, demotia, as a way of social control of the system, and in this case soviets were supposed to become an instrument of self-government, uniting the structure of the Eurasian state from top to bottom.

Transformative Student Voice for Sociopolitical Development: Developing Youth of Color as Political Actors

Although youth activism often is sparked by unexpected events, the seeds of activism are planted in learning environments that cultivate community, critical reflection, and sociopolitical action. Recent studies suggest promising outcomes from transformative student voice (TSV) programming, but more work is needed that assesses the impact of TSV participation for youth of color. We surveyed 294 students from 12 public high schools and found that students in TSV activities reported more critical reflection, sociopolitical efficacy, and participation in sociopolitical action than their non-TSV peers. Additionally, using regression analysis, we found that years of involvement in TSV activities predicted participation in sociopolitical action. These findings are significant, as they indicate how multiyear engagement in TSV activities can facilitate sociopolitical action in the youth of color.

Современная социально-политическая ситуация и демографическое развитие России

The purpose of the study is a systematic analysis and understanding of the complex problem of the socio-political situation and demographic development of Russia, determining the prospects for its optimization. Methodological foundations of the study. The research was based on the following scientific approaches: systemic (V.G. Afanasyev, B.G. Ananyev, V.P. Kuzmin, E.G. Yudin, etc.); complex (J. Miller, N. Chomsky, W. McCarthy, etc.); synergetic (I. Prigozhin, S.P. Kurdyumov, E.N. Knyazeva, etc.); integrative (I.V. Bestuzhev-Lada, V.N. Turchenko, V.A. Yadov, etc.). In their organic unity, they allowed us to consider the problem holistically, in the indivisibility of all components, to identify the factors determining its successful solution. The empirical base of the study was made up of: legislative acts of the Russian Federation, documents of federal authorities, results of sociological research, state statistics data. The method of in-depth analysis of social phenomena, processes and trends, abstraction and systematization of the identified components was used. The results of the study allow us to take a systematic and comprehensive look at the most important problem of modern Russia — its sociopolitical situation and demographic development, use the results obtained in the development of state policy provisions and an appropriate strategy concerning the optimization of issues, demography and the Russian family. The prospects of the research are the possibility of developing clear methodological foundations concerning the preparation and implementation of the demographic policy of the country, taking into account both the modern socio-cultural and political situation (challenges of the time) +and all historical nuances inherent in the development of Russian (Russian) culture and civilization.

MECHANISM FOR INTRODUCTION OF THE BASIC INCOME OF A CITIZEN OF UKRAINE

Introduction. The research is dedicated to the citizens of Ukraine. It is known that in many countries of the world there is a discussion about the possibility of introducing the "Unconditional Basic Income of the Citizen" (hereinafter - BBDG), and that is what encourages the governments of these countries to incline to such a decision. The draft law "Basic Income of a Citizen of Ukraine" (hereinafter - BSGU) is similar in form to BBDG and at the same time conceptually adapted to Ukrainian realities. Its adoption will be followed by the Constitution of Ukraine (Chapter II Rights, Freedoms and Duties of Man and Citizen).The subject of the research is the model of introduction of the basic income of a citizen of Ukraine - the law №1 for Ukraine. Goal. The article aims to describe the general, basic and final provisions of the draft law № 1 for Ukraine "On the introduction of basic income of Ukrainian citizens" which will contribute to the opening of new opportunities for Ukrainian citizens in health, education, self-realization through innovation and suffrage, will help to stop the outflow of labour and intellectual potential from Ukraine, providing each part of the total gross domestic product. The object of the study is the mechanism of introduction of the basic income of a citizen of Ukraine. Local self-government and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine). Open-source materials were used for the study, namely summary information from the official website of the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine, DW website referring to the data the World Bank and 112ua, Constitution of Ukraine. In addition, the emergence of such a law will open new opportunities for citizens of Ukraine in health, education, self-realization through innovation and suffrage, where you can not only freely choose but also be elected to public authorities at various levels, will help to suspend the outflow of labour and intellectual potential from Ukraine, providing each part of the total gross national product. Methods. The following methods were used to conduct research and obtain its results - the method of analysis and synthesis, absolute and comparative advantages, socio-psychological and organizational-administrative methods, synergetic approach. Research results. Public organizations, journalists, and representatives of local self-government were involved in the discussion of the proposed bill. The result of the study is a peer-reviewed scientific development - the draft law "On the introduction of basic income of citizens of Ukraine", information on copyright and related rights is included in the bulletin № 61 and are considered published November 30, 2020, National Intellectual Property State Enterprise. Conclusions. Every year more and more people have temporary or part-time employment. Forms of labour relations are changing. Labour relations based on remote employment are spreading. The structure of labour collectives is modified and they begin to lose a clear organizational structure and disappear as a whole. Society is increasingly stratified by income. Every year artificial intelligence becomes a growing driver of technological progress in our progressive digital civilization. Already in the 1920s, global automation of labour processes will take place, which will lead to a significant reduction in the number of jobs. Scientists predict that by 2035, 70% of current jobs, including those related to routine manual labour, will be replaced by artificial intelligence. Under the above circumstances, states face problems of increasing the natural rate of unemployment due to a significant increase in the level of structural unemployment. That makes it necessary to provide more and more assistance for integration into society to people who have lost the prospect of employment due to the disappearance from the labour market of jobs and specialities that they own. The above information does not mean that people will suddenly have nowhere to work. Today, new professions are emerging every day, and in developed countries, more than 70% of the economy is in the service sector. However, the transition period, until people lose their main jobs and find new jobs, will be not only painful but very massive. This process will be accompanied by mass strikes, rallies, voting for populists and other destructive phenomena of socio-political development. Every year we witness the growing impoverishment of citizens, so the decision was made to initiate a bill on the Basic Income of Citizens of Ukraine as a mechanism to ensure the main human right - the right to a dignified life under the Constitution of Ukraine (Article 21. All people are free and equal in dignity and rights).

Strategies of rendering intertextuality of scientific research The Making of Black Lives Matter by Christopher J. Lebron

The article is devoted to modern problems of translation scientific research on socio-political topics with the use of translation strategies. Translator’s proficiency is confirmed by the ability to plan the translation process or its result using different translation strategies. The process of translation of any source text starts with a comprehensive pre-translational analysis of the source text, determining the author’s style, functions of the text and target audience, which become the basis for further decision-making on the definition of the main strategy ormultiple translation strategies, which allow them to choose tactics and techniques in the process of translation selected text byits segments. The material of this study was the book The making of Black Lives Matterby Christopher J. Lebron, recognized as a scientific study of the Black Lives Matter African-American social and political movement, which gained popularity in 2020 after the death of African-American George Floyd during his detention by the police. The study by Christopher J. Lebrondedicated to the historical foundation of BLM movement and its socio-political development. The book is characterized as a unique study with a special author’s stylefeatured by intertextuality, realized in the use of direct speeches giving the authenticity and credibility to the research.Intertextuality of the source text was determined, theoretical principles of intertextuality were investigated, a comprehensive pre-translational analysis was carried out. In the course of translation process an additional strategy was determined according to the features of the source text segments that were in the process of translation. The methodology of the studyincluded a style analysis of the source, a comparative and transformationalanalysis of the similarities and discrepancies between the SL text and its TL translation, strategies in translation of socio-political text in order to achieve an adequate politically correct translation were outlined. The result of scientific-experimental research was based on understanding of correctly defined strategies that allowed to preserve the authenticity of the source text as much as possible while translating it into Ukrainian.

HALF A CENTURY OF REBELLIONS IN TRANSBAIKALIA

The article presents a brief history of rebellions of the military service popula-tion of Transbaikalia in the 17th century in the context of security and police functions of the administrative apparatus. We have identified the officials who ensured police order, court and supervision. Among the key competent authorities are clerks and voivodes, who were mainly supported by the Cossacks. We have made an attempt to identify not only the characteristic historical features of the rebellions, but also the reasons that gave rise to them. One of the most important reasons for the events that took place on the territory of Transbaikalia during the second half of the 17th century was undoubtedly malversation of responsible officials, as well as the important for this period request for justice. We be-lieve that, despite the extreme geographical distance and transboundariness of the region, Transbaikalia experienced the same difficulties in socio-political development as other Russian regions in the 17th century, which received the name of the Rebellious Age in his-toriography. At the same time, there were also features, which are typical for the regions of Eastern Siberia, Transbaikalia and the Far East, such as an extreme remoteness of the region from decision-making centers, high concentration of the military service popula-tion, the lack of regular police services capable of detecting threats to law and order and transboundariness.

РЕЦЕНЗИЯ НА КНИГУ: ТРУДЫ ИНСТИТУТА ПОСТСОВЕТСКИХ И МЕЖРЕГИОНАЛЬНЫХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ. ВЫП. 5: КЫРГЫЗСТАНОВЕДЕНИЕ / РЕДКОЛ.: Е.И. ПИВОВАР (ОТВ. РЕД.), Е.Я. ВИТТЕНБЕРГ, М.Ю. МУХИН, И.Е. ХАНОВА. М.: РГГУ, 2022. 305 С.

“Kyrgyzstan’ Studies” continues the tradition in country studies issues of a series on scientific works “Publications of the Institute of post-Soviet and interregional studies”. The authors of the book are well-known specialists from the Russian State University for the Humanities and other universities and scientific institutes of Russia, leading scientific and expert-analytical centers of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan. The authors focus on a wide range of issues of the history, culture and modernity of Kyrgyzstan, Russian-Kyrgyz relations, cross-cultural interaction in Central Asia as a whole. “Kyrgyzstan’ Studies” introduces readers to the pages of the Kyrgyzstan history, the peculiarities of the formation and evolution of Russian-Kyrgyz business relations and cooperation in the field of education and science, the stages and features of the constitutional, legal and socio-political development of the country in general, the traditions of the spiritual and material culture of the Kyrgyz and the contribution of Kyrgyzstan to the unique multicultural space of Eurasia. The results of the interdisciplinary analysis of significant historical and cultural processes and phenomena presented in the book are particularly important in the context of the modern development of the Kyrgyz Republic, its relations with neighboring states and participation in integration projects in the Eurasian space. The participation of a solid international team in the preparation of the publication confirms the relevance and prospects of interregional scientific and educational cooperation

Політичний простір угорської нації: ресурс споріднених діаспор

The article presents the process of reformatting the practices of national development through an expanded interpretation of the endogenous political space of the national community. It is noted that the EU spatial strategies have a significant impact on the revision of the priorities of regional development of modern states, which, seeking to ensure the sustainable development of their own political systems, turn to the socio-political capital of related foreign diasporas and border regions. In the context of the spatial revolution and the recognition of the actual political space as a constructed system, the nationalpolitical space acquires the characteristics of a flexible network system where new practices of national cohesion are formed, which are not limited by the sovereign borders of the state. An example of the transformation of the process of national cohesion in Hungary is presented, which involves the incorporation of related foreign diasporas of Southern Slovakia, Transylvania, Vojvodina and Transcarpathia into a single socio-political system without revision of state borders. The socio-political development of Hungarian diasporas abroad is managed centrally through state institutions and programs. On the example of the creation of an extensive network of Hungarian political parties and NGOs within the socio-cultural spaces of the Hungarian diasporas, the process of building a system of autonomous projects along the perimeter of the borders of Hungary is shown, through which it seeks to modernize its own national doctrine by providing it with a transnational component. Hungarian policy considers Hungarian communities as a resource that can provide a political transit for the national doctrine, which provides a modern component of the ethno-national idea, and makes it possible to respond to the spatial transformations of the EU.