Researcher: attitude towards the reform of russian science in the field of education (based on the sociological survey)
The results of the sociological study of the attitude towards the reformation of the Russian science among scientists who study education are presented. Total of 721 researchers were interviewed with the help of a specially developed questionnaire, which included 72 questions. The survey was conducted in different cities of Russia among respondents with different level of scientific qualification, different length of scientific activity and age. This article focuses on issues relating to the attitude of researchers to the most significant problems in the field of educational sciences, relevant issues of Russian science reforming and the intrusion of science-based methods for assessing the quality of scientific research. The materials received during the survey were analyzed with respect to the impact of socio-demographic characteristics and indicators of socio-professional status (academic degree, scientific title, position held, publication activity). The results of the research showed that among the main problems in the field of science, researchers most often note "bureaucratic mode of management", "weak material and technical base", "inadequate criteria for assessing the work of a scientist", "insufficient financial incentives" and "difficulties in publishing in the rating magazines". Concerning assessing the success of ongoing reformation in the field of science, negative assessments dominate. Two revealing tendencies were discovered: 1) as the age of researchers grows, the share of negative assessments of the reformation is clearly growing among them; 2) the higher the professional status of the scientist, the more often negative evaluations of the reformation results are manifested. The study showed that the use of scientometric criteria can be considered as a special tool for "retention" of social and professional status, and also for professional capital accumulation, in analogy with cultural. In general the study's findings indicate that the reformational policy was not based on the opinion of a wide range of highly qualified specialists.