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The article reflects the results of investigation the phenomenon “childfree”, the movement joining the people who voluntary refused from childbearing. During the analysis of motivational orientations, worldview positions and axiological guides of the ideology followers it was revealed a special kind of childfree. These are so-called “regretting mothers” – women having children but regretting of their birth. A wide discussion of this problem began after the publication of the study results of the Israeli sociologis...

The article represents partial results of three-year investigation devoted to the childfree phenomenon. The subject of the research is the problem of voluntary refuse from childbearing in modern Russian society and possible consequences of such an ideology. The review of studies devoted to the given subject and the analysis of social researches about family, marriage behavior and reproductive orientations showed that the spreading of the childfree ideology is not able to influence on demographic situation in Russi...

Efficiency is one of the most important indicators of elite professionalism. Measuring this indicator we reveal the quality of a particular elite community, their professional training and acmeological level. Empirical data only gives an external quality measure. Personal assessments of elite subjects are made In the role of an internal criterion. It is the comparison of the objective and subjective (external and internal) indicator which gives us an adequate assessment of the effectiveness of modern political eli...

The very nature of the elite phenomenon urgently requires researchers to use an integrated approach, especially in analyzing the system of their core values laid down in each professional community. Since the elite always points to the best that exists in every professional community, the study of the axiological and acmeological data of the elites is the most important condition for any elitological analysis. Empirical measurements can reveal the quality of a particular elite in the current time (“here-and-now” m...