Higher Education in Russia As Institute of Social Control of Student Deviant Activities

Social control plays for the society a significant regulative function, is a complete mechanism of maintaining of public balance,  facilitated with a wide range of tools, forms, methods of impact on undesirable to a society manifestations of human activity, which find first of all expression through social institutes. A social institute of education (higher education in particular) takes on special significance.

 

However many modern scientists say that an institute of education keeps actually from a realization of significant controlling function. Modern universities limit its objectives only to information transfer and miss the formation of character, moral and civic principles, and also could hinder the development of social qualities of the individual and its behavior, that have socially useful nature.

 

Few questions, which need its answers, acute before the system of social control in Russia. First, could modern universities be elements of social control? Does it exhaust its correcting, controlling potential?

 

It is fair to say about serious lag of the university system of social control from quickly developing proliferation trends of deviation among students. Few factors, (it is the author's opinion) can have a major impact. For example: attempts to silence or denial of the problem’s existence; secondary importance of the distribution of deviant behavior among students before such problems as an improvement of the quality of the educational process; government support of social control programs and preventive measures place emphasis on schools, without affecting institutes of higher education …

 

It appears that the initiation of a broad discussion in Russia, scientific understanding of the problem among specialists, practical activities aimed at implementation of coordinated preventive measures in the institutes of higher education could remove the existing tension and serve as a beginning of the formation of a system of social control and preventive measures at universities of Russia.