On the Elderly and Pensions
The social essence of pension reform in Russia is formulated on the basis of political argumentation analysis. It is argued that generational action of the elderly consists in the transmission of cultural codes to form the direction of social development and for the reproduction of society as the whole of a special kind. The need to maintain social mechanisms to ensure the integrity of society beyond the functionality of social production is stated, ensuring a particular type of socialization of the elderly being one of such mechanisms.