Hybrid Socio-Political Reality: Essence, Citizen Opinions, and Trends

Hybrid Socio-Political Reality:
Essence, Citizen Opinions, and Trends


Levashov V.K.

Dr. Sci. (Sociol.), Director, Institute of Socio-Political Research of FCTAS RAS, Moscow, Russia. levachov@mail.ru

Novozhenina O.P.

Senior Researcher, Institute of Socio-Political Research of FCTAS RAS, Moscow, Russia. analytic@ispr.ras.ru

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Levashov V.K., Novozhenina O.P. Hybrid Socio-Political Reality: Essence, Citizen Opinions, and Trends. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2022. No 12. P. 139-149




Abstract

1990s and 2020s will go down in the history as periods of fundamental changes in global, regional and national socio-political relations, as well as state and international organizations and institutions. The social, economic and political problems sharply escalated in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, and then during the Russian Federation’s special military operation in Ukraine. A new reality is emerging before our eyes, requiring reflection and study. The dynamics, scale, complexity and inconsistency of the dominant trends of modern social life form a hybrid socio-political reality that contradictorily combines the “rules of the game” of peacetime and wartime. This reality begins to significantly influence the choice of sustainable development trajectories for Russian and global society. The authors present results of the sociological monitoring “How are you Russia?”. The conclusions are drawn about possible development vectors of the socio-political situation in our country and the world.


Keywords
hybrid reality; socio-political development; cold war; sociological monitoring; social and political trends
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