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Proshkova Z.V. [The choice of a technical specialty by students of Russian universities: generational analysis] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2023, Vol. 14, No. 3. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/62SCSK323.pdf (in Russian).

The choice of a technical specialty by students of Russian universities: generational analysis

Proshkova Zoya Vyacheslavovna
Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia
E-mail: eder57@yandex.ru

Abstract. The article deals with the inheritance of technical professions for three generations of the family. The relevance of the study is due to the need of studying the influence of the family on the educational, professional, and cultural capital of students. The main issues of the project are the educational and professional paths of several generations of the family, family capital, motives for choosing a technical profession by students of Russian universities, dynasties of technical specialists, the collection of biographical works as a method of empirical sociology.

The autobiographies written by the students of technical specialties of Russian higher educational institutions were analyzed. The educational experience of parents, grandparents of informants was studied. The author presents the classification of professions of the older generations of the family. The texts were processed using specialized computer programs.

It is established that the technical profession is leading in the list of occupations of the older generations of the students’ family. The second place is occupied by workers in the field of economics. In the dynasties of technical specialists, the main factor in choosing a profession is the inheritance of family professional, educational, cultural and social capital. In other families, the main motives for choosing a technical education and profession are the abilities and interests of the student, as well as the prospects of a high income. Inheritance of a profession closes the ranking of reasons for admission to technical faculties.

A methodological analysis of the collection of biographical works was carried out. The approach minimizes the presence of the researcher at the field stage of the project implementation, allows the use of computer text processing, is relevant to the study of generational issues in sociology. Among the disadvantages of the method is the incompleteness of the primary information received.

The results of the project can be used to solve the tasks of social policy in the fields of labor, education and family. The experience of generational analysis of biographical materials is important to sociology.

Keywords: technical profession; technical education; students; generation; inheritance of profession; family capital; cultural capital; biographical writings

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