The article discusses methodological approaches to the study of continuing pedagogical education: systemic, institutional, structural and functional, conflictological, axiological, community and resource. These approaches allow us to focus on various aspects of continuing pedagogical education as a conscious trajectory of step-by-step professional formation and development of a teacher aimed at improving his social and professional status.

Today, the higher education in Russia is at a new stage of transformations, the necessity of transformations is determined by new geopolitical challenges. The choice of the education reform strategy is carried out considering the dominant system of values. The reorientation towards the traditional spiritual and moral values of Russian civilization keeps relevant the achievements of the process of Bologna and the positive results of neoliberal reforms.

The article addresses the issue of institutional and organizational support for scientific schools and collectives as key subjects in the system of scientific and pedagogical structures of the universities of the Ural Federal District. The aim of the research is to analyze the measures of support for scientific schools and collectives in the context of university activities with the aim of identifying their effectiveness and impact on the academic development of the region. Materials and methods. Interviews with Leading Scientific Schools of Universities in the Urals Federal District were conducted, and document analysis was carried out, including materials on the implementation of the “Priority-2030” program. Results and scientific novelty. The obtained results allowed to identify various types of support provided to scientific schools and collectives, such as expanding financial resources, simplifying bureaucratic procedures, enhancing the quality of advisory support, creating mechanisms to stimulate cooperation, as well as adapting support methods to meet specific needs. The scientific novelty of the study lies in identifying the impact of various support measures on the academic development of the region. Specific recommendations are also proposed for improving the support system for scientific structures in the universities of the Ural Federal District.

The results of a sociological study of the requests of parents whose children from grades 5 to 11 receive general education in boarding schools located in places of traditional residence and traditional economic activity of the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North of the KhantyMansiysk Autonomous Okrug — Ugra are presented. Khanty, Mansi, and Nenets children spend most of the year away from their families in boarding schools during their studies. The sample size was 177 respondents, the completeness of filling without rejection — all questionnaires were encoded and systematized in the "Vortex" sociological data processing program. It turned out, based on the subjective statements of parents, attention should be paid to physical education and sports clubs, sections, programs based on the ethnocultural experience of the indigenous small peoples of the North. According to parents, the most popular areas of extracurricular leisure activities are sports, creative and educational interest groups. Volunteerism and eco-educational activities as innovative approaches in modern education of schoolchildren are not indicated among the requests.

Introduction. The transformation of Russian society and the increasing role of the factor of science and education in its development actualizes the study of research and pedagogical staff (RPS) of universities as an element of the social structure of society and higher education. Contradictions in the development of the national higher school have left their mark on the prestige, social functions and roles of the RPS. The causes and consequences of such a situation are the subject of sociological research.

The purpose is to consider the changing place and role ofRPS in the social structure of Russian universities and society. The characteristic of the interrelationships of the RPS with other social communities and groups within the framework of the reproduction system of intellectual labor specialists is presented. The assessment of changes in the functions of the RPS in the social structure of the university and society is given. The features of the modern social status of the RPS are revealed.

Resultsand academic novelty. It is shown that contradictions in the functioning and development of RPS are reflected in their positions and functional characteristics. First of all, such structural and functional changes are noticeable within the higher education system and within the university community. However, these changes naturally manifest themselves in the position of RPS in the social structure of society, affecting their role in the mechanism of reproduction of the intellectual class. The article summarizes the results of the author’s research on the problems of higher education and RPS, comparing them with the results of research by foreign and Russianscientists. 

The article the method of secondary analysis of scientific literature on the issue of studying the innovative potential of academic teaching staff is used; the main methodological and substantive approaches to the study of the innovative potential of academic teaching staff are formulated and disclosed — systemic, institutional, community, economic, psychological-pedagogical, sociological. 

The article examines the problem of professional longevity in high-performance sports, the importance of which has been actualized in connection with the transformation of Russian sports in the global space. Innovative problems in combination with traditional problems of functioning and development of sports contribute to the reassessment of the problem of longevity of the country’s leading athletes. Based on the concept of risk by E. Giddens, N. Luhmann, as well as the methodology for studying performance in sports by K. Bauersfeld, an author’s sociological study was conducted at the Department of General Sociology and Social Work of N.I. Lobachevsky National National University in 2023. the method of questioning athletes of the highest achievements (n= 400 people, the sample was carried out by the “snowball” method) in order to identify models and parameters of professional longevity. Empirical information was processed using the IBM SPSS Statistics program, and the method of statistical data analysis, multidimensional scaling, was also used. The quality of the obtained model is estimated by calculating the proportion of correctly classified observations based on the obtained forecast equation. Results and scientific novelty. Four models of professional longevity of representatives of top-level sports have been identified: health-saving, state support, personal responsibility and risk avoidance, which allow a deeper understanding of the nature of professional longevity in sports as a social phenomenon. The following parameters have been determined that determine professional longevity in highperformance sports: motivation to achieve a high sports result and a high qualification level; acquisition of a high educational level associated with further implementation in the field of physical culture and sports; It is not the earliest age of integration into the field of sports activity. 

Turning to the theoretical foundations of studying the main university educational communities is associated with the need to find a way to solve the problems of fragmentation of university educational communities in the field of scientific activity. The need to study the interaction of university educational communities was determined by the purpose of the article — the analysis of the theoretical framework for the study of university educational communities and the main method — the analysis of middle-level theories that describe the functioning of university educational communities, the organization of their scientific activities, research practices and methods of interaction in the scientific space. On this basis, interpretations of the key terms of the concept of optimal interaction between university educational communities in the university scientific space are proposed: scientific capital, scientific and educational activities, communities of scientific and pedagogical workers, students, administrative and managerial workers. The conclusion is made about the need for their further study from the standpoint of their action and interaction as an independent scientific task.

Reforming the education system is one of the key directions in the domestic policy of the Russian Federation. A new perspective is emerging on all participants in the educational process. Particular attention is paid to the teacher, his professional growth and development. Conditions are being created to ensure the possibility of continuous professional development for teachers throughout the career. But a number of barriers and obstacles arise, due to which teachers do not have the opportunity to improve their professional level.

In conditions of human resources(personnel) shortage in the Ural region, the topic of issues of the functioning of the educational space is raised in terms of keeping young specialists in the teaching environment, their adaptation in the teaching profession. The purpose of the article is analyze life plans, professional well-being, and assess the deficits and resources of young teachers. The authors refer to the results of original applied research of which they are the developers. The authors realized qualitative and quantitative research strategy. They describe the attitude of a group of young teachers to various mechanisms for organizing adaptation processes in a modern educational organization, their assessment of the effectiveness of these conditions for entering the profession. Also the authors reseachthe needs and orientations of this social group towards alternative forms and methods of building adaptation systems in education as a professional environment. 

The article examines the concept of motivation types, provides data from an intelligence study of the types of motivations of employees of Surgut State Pedagogical University under the age of 35, belonging to two professional groups: administrative and financial workers and scientific and pedagogical workers, based on the use of the Motype test by Russian sociologist V.I. Gerchikov. During the study, special attention was paid to three age groups: employees 35 years old and younger, employees 35 to 50 years old and employees over 50 years old. The obtained results can be used in the formation of a motivation model for a certain professional group, taking into account the identified needs of employees.

Unstable operating conditions of modern organizations have a serious impact on approaches, tools and practices of working with staff. Management is required not only to take into account the interests of the business, but also to increase the importance of analyzing and meeting the entire range of needs and interests of the staff. The job satisfaction index becomes a generalizing indicator of the effectiveness of organizational interaction. The materials for the analysis were the results of the author’s study of the satisfaction with the work of employees of sixteen enterprises of the industrial, transport industry and the field of medicine, healthcare in Yekaterinburg and the Sverdlovsk region, conducted in 2021–2023. The authors have identified an insufficient level of coherence between the interests of employees and employers associated with unrealized social needs, primarily recognition of merit, complicity in the affairs of the organization and self-realization. In the stated areas, management practice does not clearly take into account the interests of all parties to labor interaction. Professional development opportunities are unevenly distributed, in those enterprises where they are most accessible, there is a bias in favor of the formation of knowledge and skills that do not receive their application in real work practice. The opinion of employees in making managerial decisions is taken into account to a greater extent nominally, the level of trust on the part of management is low, the delegation of authority is limited by the fear of losing control over the process and the result of work. Opportunities for recognition and evaluation of employees by management are limited by the lack of unambiguous criteria for success in conditions of insufficiently clearly defined organizational values and norms.

The research of students as an actors of co-production in the socio-cultural development of the urban environment is the most actual problem. Co-production interpreted as involvement of citizens and other social actors in the process of creating a public good for a real contribution, share knowledge, experience, and shearing of resources in order to improve the efficiency of public services provided in urban space. This leads to create a richer and more diverse socio-cultural environment.

The purpose of this article is to analyze the potential of the student youth in the Sverdlovsk region as an actors of co-production in the socio-cultural development of cities. Organizational conditions in the specific cases are consider in this research.

Material and methods. The empirical basis of the article is the research of the students social participation by some sociological methods: 1) a questionnaire survey of the youth in the Sverdlovsk region (2020; N =1105, sample type — quota); 2) an online survey of the student youth from universities in regional cities of Russia, Armenia, Poland, Romania (2020; N = 1276, sample type — target); 3) a case study of the organizational conditions for the social participation of the youth in the socio-cultural development of cities of the Sverdlovsk region.

Results and scientific novelty. The analysis of the research materials proved that the participation of students for co-production in sphere of socio-cultural services for an urban environment is ineffective. This conclusion is based on an assessment of youth participation in socio-cultural projects, the availability of individual and collective initiatives, and readiness for informed cooperation with urban communities, public organizations, cultural institutions, and officials. The municipal authorities, NGOs, and leaders of youth organizations underestimate the concept of the сo-production for solving of the socio-cultural problems in the city. They are not ready to manage the sphere of culture according to principles of co-productiveness. The study of cases of student participation in the logic of ideas of co-production highlights new management tasks in the implementation of youth policy in municipalities.

The article is devoted to the analysis of factors that determine the connection between the professional self-determination of students and young people’s ideas about their potential professional future and subjective social well-being. The study was conducted between 2020 and 2023 among university students in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra. In the article focuses on determining the place of work in the value system of students, their satisfaction with the chosen specialty, as well as the readiness of students for professional activities upon graduation from a higher educational institution.

A study of modern youth policy in Russia shows that it is becoming one of the key priorities in the system of state and municipal government. This is evidenced by the strengthening of the institutional framework in the field of youth policy, including the adoption of a special federal law regulating its content and powers of all levels of state power and local government, which determines the relevance of this study.

The purpose of the article is to study grant support for children's and youth organizations in the system of youth policy implementation.

The work used: analysis of regulatory legal acts at the federal and regional levels, secondary analysis of the results of sociological research of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion on Youth Issues, analysis of reporting documents, protocols of grant competitions, content analysis of open information sources of government authorities at the federal and regional levels.

The scientific novelty lies in the fact that grant support creates the conditions for the activation and involvement of young people in the formation and implementation of modern youth policy.

Based on the results of the study, it was revealed that the activity of grant support for youth projects, on the one hand, forms the subject position of youth in relation to the formation and implementation of youth policy, and on the other hand, determines its non-systematic and fragmented nature, since the holding of events with the participation of youth within the framework of Grant support is implemented only when the grant is received, and in the absence of support, the planned initiative does not receive resources for implementation.