Renewed Social Policy and Religious Renaissance
In contemporary Russia the need to revise the social policy fundamentals seems to be imminent. The profound social transformation and disintegration have changed the grounds of social action; have developed the individualization and rationalization. Under these circumstances the process of searching new identities, particularly, ethnic and religious, has commenced. As the result of such social changes certain social strata and groups have formed that find the essence of their existence in the said identities. The denial to gratify their demands may lead to serious social consequences and radicalization of the attitude of these groups and strata. The revision of the social policy fundamentals is largely based on overcoming the consequences of the crisis in the 1990s. The revision of social policy is associated with giving up the practice of considering only the external “objective” conditions of life and refocusing on the social and moral-ethical results of the social policy. Such revision and changes in the social policy concepts shall be based on the synthesis of the successful experience of new approaches to solving local problems. The concept of social justice is one of the key elements of the new social policy meeting both the standards of public moral principles and new socio-economic requirements.