The results of two pilot study conducted in the second year at the end of DSTU 2013 and May - June 2014. Obtained that the emotional attitude of students to political reality strongly inhomogeneous. The level of perception was smeared from -0,6 to + 0,6 in the beginning, and from -0,8 to + 0,8 mid-2014 average level at the beginning of the year was almost zero, 0,051 for the perception of local government and 0,063 - central. The distribution was of bimodal, about 30% of the respondents perceived both real order in the negative, with an average level of about 0,3, and 70% - positive, with an average level of about +0,3. Local authorities perceived slightly more negatively. To the middle of 2014 the relation to the authorities of both levels became more positive. The average levels of emotional perception rose to 0,12 for the local political order and 0,16 for the central. At the same time, as before, the local authorities perceive a lower level.

Keywords: pilot study, questionnaire, semantic differential, emotional perception, political order, the theory of ideal point, nonlinear approximation, a typical model, individual perception, distribution function

This scientific research is directed on measurement of level of satisfaction of students with a cultural and leisure complex of Rostov-on-Don, ability of cultural infrastructure to sustain inquiries of the population, and reveals the problematic side of the existing cultural complex. Research took place from December, 2013 to May, 2014 by a questioning method. It's received low level of satisfaction with the functioning of the cultural complex among young people. Revealed a low level of interest of the population in their cultural development. It is shown that the existing cultural infrastructure is not able to fully perform their functions of the cultural development of the population and neeeds to change.

Keywords: cultural complex, sociographic measurement, questionnaires, descriptive statistics, cultural infrastructure, cultural level of the population, leisure

Substantiated the technique of monitoring the state of the cultural complex of the city or the subject of the Russian Federation, based on sentinel populations. The study was conducted among the students of the 2nd year RGSU. As an integral indicator of the development of the cultural complex and the its individual components, use one of the cultural components of the group setting - the level of emotional perception of the relevant components. Normalized between -1 (total rejection) to 1 (absolute satisfaction). Primary data obtained questionnaires, one of projective techniques - by Charles Osgood's semantic differential. Interpretation of the results carried out on the basis of the theory of perception Information respondent suggested Coombs - ideal point model. Levels of perception are calculated in the linear approximation, as well as in the non-linear model, which we developed based on the concept of typicality, in terms of the theory of catastrophes. In contrast to the conventional approach of technology of semantic differential, calculations are performed not by the average semantic portraits, and by individual, using multi-agent modeling package Any Logic. Ultimately, calculated the distribution of function level of emotional perception of infrastructure and cultural life of the city as a whole on respondents. It is shown that the distribution function of the level of emotional perception of cultural infrastructure and cultural level of the city as a whole is almost the same. It was found that the emotional perception of the students strongly smeared cultural infrastructure, from strongly negative (-1) to a significant positive (+0.8). The main result - shows prospect the offered technique for assessment of development of the cultural infrastructure of the city as a whole, and for the analysis of cultural deprivation separate groups of the population.

Keywords: monitoring, cultural infrastructure, cultural level of the city life, cultural attitudes, emotional level of perception, semantic differential, projective techniques, nonlinear model, ideal point, catastrophe theory, typicality

Work represents research of structure of group installations in relation to a political order. The studied audience - politically active part of the population of the Rostov region. Measurement is carried out using questionnaires. The survey involved 402 respondents. Age from 19 to 73 years. It is measured an activity relation to the political life of society, there is assessment of relations to the political authority, the current political situation and the level of relative deprivation. It is received, among the interrogated group there are pro-government moods, with support of work in the government, for the purpose of support to the existing regime – 44,8%. It is revealed, the majority of respondents have a negative attitude to the protest actions. Thus the increased level of an emotional involvement and participation in political processes is observed.

Keywords: a political tension, deprivation, group installation, cognitive component, behavioral component, questionnaire, the descriptive statistics

On the results of the reports shows that experts and scholars model studies of social systems has received a new professional forum in the framework of the annual scientific readings dedicated to the memory Y.A Zhdanov. The report contains the results of theoretical and applied research of complex socio systems using model-based approach.

Keywords: convergence, simulation, methodology, social simulation, information set of instruments, agent base modeling, system dynamics, the discrete- event-related models

Presents materials of the reports presented at the section "Technologies of modeling socio-cultural interactions in multi-ethnic regions" international scientific conference of young scientists "Actual problems of modeling, designing and forecasting of social and political processes in multicultural space of modern society". The organizer of the specified partition conference was organized by the North-Caucasian scientific center of higher school and the Department of modeling of social processes of the southern Federal University. The materials reflect the results of research of young scientists, postgraduates and undergraduates, obtained with the use of various aspects of model-based approach.

Keywords: Technology, modeling, social modeling, socio-cultural interaction,multi-ethnic region

The work is aimed at studying the relationship of young people to the political sphere of society. Research was carried out the end of 2013 using questionnaires. In the survey of 185 people attended. There is a low level of participation in the political process, and the average level of emotional involvement. It is received, the low level of political activity of young people: weak electoral activity and indifference to social movements. Assessment of the political situation on the value of the average in the Region - 2.39 and Russia - 2.04.

Keywords: a political tension, deprivation, group installation, cognitive component, behavioral component, questionnaire, the descriptive statistics

This paper presents a method of processing and interpreting data from the semantic differential technique. It is shown, the emotional perception calculated on the standard method of average values gives an incomplete picture. The technique is approved in research of emotional perception of the political order among DGTU students. It is obtained, distribution of the studied group is inhomogeneously on emotional perception of political orders. For audience as average, and the most probable levels of perception of local and central political orders are positive and equal 0,1. However, 27% of students are characterized by a negative level of emotional perception of political order, with the average value -0.3.

Keywords: modeling, political order, group settings, the affective component, semantic differential, questionnaire

Information about authors of issue №2 (2014)

Keywords: authors

The article is devoted to the analysis of the main institutions that shape social health of Russian youth. The basic institutional actors, modeling social health of youth, are: the state, the family, education, health care. The author shows that the state of social institutions is an accompanied by institutional deformations. 

Keywords: Institutional entities, social institutes, social health, Russian youth, family, education, health care, state, youth policy

The article explains the possibility of using polytomous models to assess personality traits that affect  on communicative competencies of students.
Input data obtained using a questionnaire V.V. Boyko  " Communicative tolerance " have been used for calculating the characteristics of survey participants and  indicators of the test.  

Keywords: level of student latent variables, polytomous model indicator, a diagnostic test.

The article examines the cognitive and behavioral components of group attitudes toward political order of students of DGTU.  Pilot study took place in 2013 and was carried out using questionnaires, which was attended by 52 people. The analysis represents a hierarchical clustering on the basis of consecutive factorization. It is received, group level of a relative deprivation – 0,46. In assessing deprivation group decomposed into two subgroups, with average values in each - 0.3 and 0.6. Perceptions of political order at the cognitive level:  -0,174 for local government and-0,139 for Russia. In perception of local government the group broke into two subgroups: -0,3 and 0,2. Behavioral component perception of political order defined by two subfactor: active behavioral level - 0.39, and the estimated level of oppositional behavior - 0.57.

Keywords: group settings, the affective component, a behavioral component, cognitive component, relative deprivation, questioning, political attitudes, factor analysis

In the autumn of 2013 a pilot survey was conducted among students DSTU, which was attended by 52 respondents. Purpose - to reveal emotional perception of the students of local and central political government by the method of semantic differential. The paper presents a psychosemantic phenomenological model processing of survey results by the method of semantic differential. On average semantic portraits are calculated relative distances between the group images of real political order and the images of the ideal constructs. Phenomenological parameters are determined by them and calculated the required level of group emotional perception of a political order. Calculations group levels of emotional perception of the political order showed similar results as the linear approximation: -0.015 for Region and for Russia as a whole -0.033. Shown, the model allows to determine not only the group levels of perception, but also to build the surface of the stationary states. This surface describes the behavior the level of perception associated with a quasistatic change of phenomenological parameters caused by external conditions. Images of perception of real political orders are in quiet area. At quasistatic variations of external conditions it is necessary to expect little smooth changes of level of perception.

Keywords: political order, semantic differential, questioning, catastrophe theory, psychosemantic phenomenological modeling

The sociological study of conceptual models of social health serves an important aspect of studying the potential of man and  the system of the formation, preservation and tracking health in the modern society. An author analyses the models of the social health in sociological knowledge. Concluded that further research and application of study that phenomenon.    

Keywords: Sociological analyze, social health, biosocial model, environmental model, value-social model, the functional model

In the article it is shown that the engineering professional abilities proved to be claimed, also, in the especially humanitarian divisions of the science: history, sociology, politologii, konfliktologii and other Which makes it possible to speak about the convergence of engineering methods and professional scopes of the specialists of humanitarian profile. The illustrations of the tendency of this change in the southern federal university are given. Are examined the most interesting aspects of the advance of engineering methods and tools in the humanitarian formation, in scientific studies and developments, conducted with the participation of scientists, specialists and the students of the North-Caucasian scientific center of southern federal university.

Keywords: convergence, simulation, methodology, social simulation, information set of instruments, agent base modeling, system dynamics, the discrete- event-related models