The article provides data obtained during a study conducted in May-June 2022 and related to the study of the educational potential of universities in Ekaterinburg to attract students from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries. In the course of the study, it was possible to find out the key barriers of educational interaction between countries, as well as factors that contribute to an increase in the number of students from the SCO countries to universities in Ekaterinburg. Our data made it possible to formulate the main barriers, including objective circumstances of constantly changing geopolitical realities, technical difficulties of educational interaction, insufficient readiness of faculty to train foreign students, financial risks, language barrier, cultural barrier, not the comfort of the infrastructure of universities, specifics of educational programs and curricula. In addition, during the study, factors were identified that will contribute to the development of educational interaction and overcoming barriers. They are personal factors, motivation for education in Russian universities, the historically established cultural tradition of communication between the peoples of the SCO countries, the creation of uniform educational standards, organizations (similar to the SCO university). Thus, we conclude that in order to strengthen educational interaction, it is possible to recommend expanding the educational network, the number of international partnerships with universities and other educated organizations of the SCO countries, improving living and learning conditions for foreign students, and creating new educational products in which applicants from the SCO countries will be interested.

Today having higher education is especially important in society lifestyle. The main task of modern higher education in Russia is to adapt students to the professional standards of the future, because they are the main actors in the educational process. The article presents the results of a study of students that we have conducted. In the article, we tried to predict the development features of the higher education system in the future, and to identify the most demanded sector of employment in the labor market of the future. We paid special attention to the issue of the educational quality in the event of a transition to a digital learning format. An analysis of the obtained results showed that today many students are not ready for a complete transition to distance learning.

The article focuses on the issue of changing the status of a modern national state in the context of a global transformation of socio-economic and political relations. Much attention is given to studying the process of evolution of the concept of state sovereignty, which is based on the right of the state to independently conduct its own domestic and foreign policy. Particular attention is paid to the reasons for adjusting the principles of the theory of state sovereignty at the modern stage of the development of society. It is concluded that sovereignty is dialectical as a combination of centrifugal trends, when regional and local authorities are strengthened, their competencies and centripetal trends are expanded. They are expressed in the voluntary restriction by some states of their sovereign rights in favor of international organizations. It is argued that the confrontation of two tendencies is to limit sovereignty on the one hand and to strengthen it on the other hand. It will determine the world order in the foreseeable future, being a source of international tension from time to time.

The article presents the results of the study of measures and methods of the state social policy, which have been taken to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2022. Issues of COVID-19 disease prevalence in the world, in the Russian Federation and, in particular, in Tyumen region, methods and tools for preventing the spread of the virus, as well as morbidity and mortality rates due to COVID-19 are discussed. The article considers the role of culture in adult behavior, aimed at protection against COVID-19, and in motivation of use of preventive measures. The results of the analysis of the formalized survey of the adult population over 18 years of age (n = 384 persons, the field phase of the study is April 2022) are given. To study the elements of sociocultural self-regulation in behavior, aimed at maintaining health during of a pandemic, the culture of respondents is considered from the point of view of the M. Gelfand's classification, highlighting rigid and free types of cultures that reflect the assimilation of group cultures (class) social norms. The article draws our attention to the relationship of the types of culture with the age of respondents, the motivation of prevention, and the choice of healthy saving behavior. Culture has been shown as a source of strengthening preventive work on the part of state institutions, taking into account that the formation of a tougher culture, focusing on social norms, the desire to avoid mistakes, self-monitoring, characterized by a more predictable way of action, which is relevant in a society of high risk to health in a viral pandemic.

The implementation by young people of their functions forms the nature of intergenerational and intragenerational interactions, as well as the image of the country. Youth may be a factor in both accelerating and slowing down the pace of social development. It depends on whether young people know, share and accept the aims and objectives of state and social development, whether they associate their own life prospects with it, have the necessary qualities (physical, spiritual, educational, professional) to solve topical issues, whether they are provided with the necessary resources and opportunities for active involvement in social, economic and political processes. The formation of socio-political and social activity is one of the most difficult types of educational work. It is necessary to take into account the real state and dynamics of young people's value orientations in the development of realistic guidelines for educational work, as well as youth policy in general. In the article, we propose some measures that could contribute to strengthening the socio-political and social activity of young people in Tyumen region.

The article is devoted to the analysis of methodological aspects of the elderly education management organization in the Russian Federation. The authors substantiate the expediency of involving elderly educational projects in the strategies of Russian society adaptation to the consequences of the population demographic aging. They also argue for the need to organize the set of specialized elderly education projects management in order to realize its potential in the direction of solving urgent socio-economic problems. The article analyzes the specifics of the organization and functioning of elderly education in Russia, proves the possibility of interpreting this structure as a social network. The specific characteristics of network structures as management objects are revealed, the inefficiency of using traditional management methodologies for its management is proved. The content of the network approach within the framework of the management sociology is concretized, the validity of the methodology application for a set of Russian elderly education projects management operating is substantiated.

Sociocultural activity is considered as a type of social activity and as a form of general cultural socialization of youth. This article analyzes the self-regulation of sociocultural activity of youth in Tyumen. Empirical research data emphasize the factors, intensity and dynamics of sociocultural activity of students.

Features of the youth's cultural activity represent local samples of cultural life and cultural practices of the youth of the city in a comparative cross-section. On the basis of a survey of youth in Tyumen, who are 17 to

29 years old, age differences of cultural practices in the structure of leisure activities of urban youth are shown; involvement in activity forms of culture and their difference in the youth environment as a whole.

The methodological foundations are based on the concept of domestic researchers Yu. A. Zubok and V. I. Chuprov, who studied the sociocultural self-regulation of young people's lives. The authors concretize the semantic perception of culture by young people, which doesn't go against the classical theory of values. Much attention in the article is given to the self-regulation of the cultural life of young people in Tyumen.