Khlopaeva N.A. Complex approach in the research of social regulators

Abstract: The subject of this research is the social regulators and their role in ensuring a stable development of the socio-political system. The author suggests a complex approach for examining the entirety of the mechanisms of maintaining social order. The general characteristics of the main social regulators such as law, moral, religion, and traditions serve as prerequisites; each of the regulators contains the idea on proper behavior and offers a system of sanctions, thanks to which, in the process of socialization a person develops the very practice of the everyday interaction with the system of norms, and obtains the abilities of self-control and adherence to external prohibitions. Each of the regulators assists in increasing the efficiency of other regulators, complementing the spheres in which they have limitations. Only as a whole do they form both, rational and irrational motivation for socially beneficial, lawful behavior. The article presents some results of the author’s research into the dominating social regulators of youth behavior. The main conclusions are provided based on the results of the polls among youth of 16-24 years of age: the most support is expressed for the moral norms and traditions; vulnerable factors are the duality and uncertainty of the choice in legal and moral spheres, and the main vector of rejection in towards the religion.

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