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Social work has a negative image in public opinion. It determines important barriers for quality social work education and social work practice. The main goal of the research has discovered opinions students and social workers toward main ideas about social work importance and professional development. The research is based on sociological questionnaire of 445 students, social workers and other social groups (Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2015-2016). In result we have described students and social workers perceptions of ...

This article analyses the sources for forming a common social identity between migrants of different ethnicities from Central Asia and a host community, the citizens of Ekaterinburg. Ekaterinburg is a big city hosting a large number of migrants belonging to different ethnicities. The ethnocultural characteristics possessed by the migrants and the citizens of Ekaterinburg are different; this makes it problematic to form a common social identity. The authors consider the formation of a social identity as a process t...

The objective of the study is an adaptation of the survey method for the preliminary evaluation of the Rural Development Program (RDP) in short-term, when the quantitative data for the period is not yet available. A survey of agricultural holdings and enterprises (i.e., on-line questionnaires with an e-mail notification) was therefore designed, equally targeting the units supported and non-supported by the Program. The survey covered all regions of Latvia, with a total of 867 responses obtained. The responses were...

Final energy consumption in Latvian households fluctuated massively because of serious political and social changes in the country between 1990 and 2015; this study explores why final energy consumption trends in Latvia during the last decades, meanwhile in Europe is the opposite situation observed. This paper investigates the downward trend in average household energy consumption of the last 30 years and shows the impact of social factors towards energy consumption. The method applied portrays factors such as lev...

The paper is devoted to insufficient pre-university IT teaching that is considered a problem in Russian education. The paper examines some issues in school computer science course in the context of informatization of society and new requirements for the orientation in the information space. The authors have been conducting a survey and entry testing of students for several years. First-year students of the Institute of Management, Economics and Finance KFU participated in the study. The article presents the result...