Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки (Jun 2022)
Information technologies and their importance in the institutionalization of higher education
Abstract
Background. One of the main directions in modern sociology remains the func-tioning and development of the social institution of education at the level of higher profes-sional in the process of informatization of society. New sociological approaches are needed to study the features of the institutional essence of the modern system of higher education. The purpose of the research is to substantiate the methodological approach to the study of the modern social institution of higher professional education and to identify the features of the modern institutionalization of the higher education system with the leading role of the introduction of information, including digital technologies. Materials and methods. The research methodology is based on the theory and research approaches from the emer-ging digital sociology. The method is a classification of the content and functions of a num-ber of information and digital technologies used in higher education to fulfill its social functions. The structure of digital sociology as a new branch of scientific sociological knowledge, new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of social pheno-mena are proposed as well as new directions for interdisciplinary research. Results. Tenden-cies to the emergence of new institutional features, to the filling of institutional functions with new content in the system of higher education in the conditions of informatization of society are revealed. A predictive variant of replacing the models of social behavior used by students with behavior strategies is derived, and a classification of such strategies is pro-posed: pragmatic-target, traditional-value, informational-personal. Conclusions. The struc-ture of the developing digital sociology as a new branch of knowledge is proposed: grounds for new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of social phenomena; new directions of interdisciplinary research; methodological tools for in-depth research and un-derstanding of modern social processes, using digital technologies.
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