Образование как источник действия, совершенствующего структуры: теоретические подходы и практические задачи

Вопросы образования. 2022. № 1. С. 116–137.

Sorokin P., Froumin I.

The issue of “transformative agency”, which proactively improves and transforms social structures, is relevant both for theoretical discussions and practical agenda. The field of education is of particular importance in terms of shaping the poten- tial for agency. However, the dominant areas of research in education, including the sociology of education, focus, on the contrary, on the mechanisms and factors of reproduction of social structures and related activities. The authors pro- pose to expand the research agenda by increasing attention to the conditions and mechanisms of the formation of “transformative agency” at different levels of education and in its various segments, with an account of the processes of de-structuration that weaken the forms of institutional coercion familiar to the 20th century. The article raises theoretical questions and suggests relevant em- pirical phenomena for further research.

Keywords: предпринимательство, человеческий капитал, социальные институты, образование, entrepreneurship, education, социальные структуры, social institutions, social structures, human capital, transformative agency, трансформирующая агентность, structure-agency, структура—действие

Publication based on the results of: Human proactivity in a changing world: theoretical and methodological foundations for interdisciplinary analysis and empirical study on the case of predictors and mechanisms of individual sustainability in the field of disinformation processing and psychological well-being (2022)