Samokhvalov Yu.P.

Purpose. To analyze social well-being of citizens studying in military training centers (MTC), their motives for selecting the educational institution, to make a conclusion about efficiency of the military training center operating as part of a civil university structure as a new form of regular officers training. Methodology and Methods: The methodology is based on the principles of sociological approach. Methods such as analysis, synthesis, sociological survey and document analysis have been used in the research. Results: indicators of social well-being of citizens studying in MTC programs, main differences between them and cadets of military high schools are identified, citizens’ perceptions of their social status, motives and reasons for the choice are revealed. Conclusion is made about problems associated with institutionalization of military training centers as a modernized form of regular officers training, about their «incorporation» into the civil university structure and about slow adaptation of students in MTC. Scope of application: the research results can be used for educational process organization in MTC, their further institutionalization in the structure of civil university. Scientific novelty: Social well-being of citizens studying in MTC programs is assessed on the basis of a system of indicators of well-being of various aspects of their educational activities. It is concluded that in military training centers of civil universities, on the one hand, a new social community of students is gradually formed, on the other hand, the level of social well-being of citizens studying in MTC programs is for the time being reducing marginal position between the students of civil universities studying in reserve officer training programs (students of military departments) and not studying in military departments (departments of military training) «common» students as well as cadets studying at military academies of the country.

Purpose. Studying of the social functions of military education and their implementation in military training centers (MTC) as part of civilian universities. Methods. When writing this article the regulatory framework of military training centers in the structure of civilian universities, monographic publications and articles on military training, its reforming and development at the present stage were studied, analytical and comparative methods of scientific knowledge were applied. Results. The article analyzed the functions of military training centers in the military, economic, social and cultural fields. The author identified latent and open MTC functions and their implementation in the present conditions of military training reform. Conclusions and proposals set out in the article can be applied for a deeper perspective sociological analysis of military training centers in the structure of civilian universities as a subsystem of military training. Scientific novelty. Scientific novelty lies in studying of the functions of military training in conditions of their implementation in the new social conditions of regular officers training in the structure of a civilian university, as the least sociologically studied social practice in training and replacement of the regular officer resource for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.