State Family Policy in the Context of Minimizing Demographic Problems
The purpose of the study is to substantiate the state family policy as a strategic basis for minimizing demographic problems based on the analysis of the main vectors of the transformation of the social institution of the family and the experience in implementing family policy in the Russian Federation. The methodological basis of the study was composed of the principles of social determinism. In the light of the situational approach to management, the priorities of both the State population policy and the State family policy are considered. When analyzing the state of the modern family as an object of social management, the provisions of descriptive and normative approaches were applied. Consideration of the reproductive function of the family is carried out from the perspective of a sociocultural approach - as the needs and values of childbearing. The results of the study. The main problems and trends of the transformation of the family at the present stage and the vectors of the formation of the state family policy, adequate for the tasks of minimizing demographic problems on the basis of the transition of social management in this area from an instrumental to a value approach, are identified. The prospect of the study. Further sociological analysis of state family policy in the context of minimizing demographic problems taking into account the transitive state of the modern family.