CHOICE OF PROFESSION OF A SCIENTIST IN THE BIOGRAPHIC STRATEGIES OF DIFFERENT GENERATIONS OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE MONO-INDUSTRIAL CITY (ON THE MATERIAL OF CITY NABEREZHNYE CHELNY)
The article discusses the factors influencing the choice of the profession of a scientist and a researcher in the biographical strategies of young residents of the mono-industrial city of Naberezhnye Chelny in various historical periods. The data obtained during a mass survey of young people, as well as studies of biographical trajectories of researchers, were analyzed. The reasons that have the greatest influence on the degree of conscious choice of the profession of a scientist, such as the presence of a role model (standard scientist) are identified; dynastic principle; social environment; internal need for the extraction of new knowledge. The main trajectories of the choice of research directions of future scientists and researchers were discovered: direct; winding cyclic; sinusoidal (wavy). According to the results of the study, it was concluded that the biographical trajectories of scientists and researchers are a chain of informed decisions when the most optimal is selected from a variety of options.