In modern Russian society, there is a gap be-tween the scientific oncept of “elite” and the group, which is usually called “elite” by the common man. The mass consciousness believes that the word “elite” means something of the highest quality, the best. The ruling group of politicians, in relation to which, as a rule, the term “elite” is used today, does not always look worthy in the eyes of society. Such dissonance, prevailing in the public mind, leads to a contradiction: the elite governing the state exists, but its image does not match the criteria of society. This mental shift in understanding what constitutes the pinnacle of society is very dangerous: after all, people who are disappointed in their state, in their ruling elite, experience frustration, their orientation in the social space is violated, where the concepts of “good and bad”, “top and bottom” are blurred. The question arises, how is it possible to reload the concept of “elite” in public opinion? A group of sociologists conducted an all-Russian research “The People’s Elite of Russia”, which aimed to outline the group of society that Russian citizens are ready to consider elite in the highest sense of the word, whom the Russians respect and whom they are proud of. During 329 personal interviews in 55 subjects of the Federation, we collected the names of people who are holding an impeccable reputation in society. The study included only open-ended questions. During the interview, alist of the names of the “heroes” has been compiled. Then their socio-demographic and professional indicators, political views and values have been analyzed. As a result, a portrait of the “people’s elite” was obtained, the description of which is given in this article.

The concept of storytelling as one of the modern varieties of the biographical method has been considered. An example of analyzing the history of social networks has been suggested, which allows us to reveal the full potential of this method for the development of digital sociology. Social networks expand horizontal communication and create opportunities for rapid, networked dissemination of information. Almost barrier-free entry and wide circulation make it possible to use a longknown and  proven tool more widely. Storytelling allows you to get visual, emotional, and evaluative components of any biography. Information obtained using this method gives us an opportunity to study several layers of a particular biography and build a network of social relationships of the individual, that is, to look at these or other facts of the biography from different points of view of the participants of the events. The story analyzed in this paper is interesting for its genre: a personal narrative created at the initiative of the online magazine Lady.mail.ru. The communication channel that is used to broadcast the story affects on the content of the message being transmitted, thus being an element of the story itself. For example, the same story can be told differently through text and video, respectively, having a different impact, or vice versa, different tools may be used to transmit the same story, depending on the specifics of the transmission channel. Each story has an individual storyteller, it is an element of a larger, multi-voiced story. Modern digital technologies have simplified and expanded the possibilities of the biographical method, since a huge amount of biographical information is voluntarily uploaded to social networks by millions of their users from different segments of the population, which allows us using this method to analyze most of the problems that are in the interests of modern sociological thought.

The conceptual, methodological and technological approaches to organization of sociological study of communicative Internet activity ofmilitary personnel in a social networks, the specific behavior in accordance with the requirements as to members ofthe militaryprofessional corporate group of people in the information-communication network “Internet” have been considered. The constitutional norms that restrict the rights of military personnel in various spheres of social interaction, as well as the norms of domestic legislation that specify these requirements have been analyzed. The described type of Internet communication has been characterized as an object of study of military sociology at various levels: general scientific, private scientific and empirical. The author's found a connection between a considered problem with the concepts of “information society”, “digital society”, “digital economy” and virtualization of social relations, as well as the concept of “human rights”. The general tendency to include of various countries confrontation with a likely enemy in the virtual space in the military- doctrinal documents has been revealed. At the same time, ensuring military security involves protecting the minds of their military personnel from negative impact, including in the case of their use of services in the Internet space. The experience of other countries in regulating the social activity of military personnel and their families in the Internet has been described. Based on the generalization of social practice, conclusions from the risk analysis of the participation of subjects of military professional activity in social networks, which is associated with threats to determine the location of military units, plans for the movement of troops, weapons, staff and personnel, that is, information constituting a military secret, have been presented. A list of other threats related to social communications of military personnel and their families in the virtual space also has been adduced. The ways to reduce the risk of negative impact on military members and their families participate in social networks and other Internet communications by implementing legal, organizational and outreach activities have been presented.

The process of migration is widespread and captures millions of people each year. The identity of those with migration experience is reconstructed by different culture of the receiving country and specific multicultural diverse space. The experience of studying this problem by foreign sociologists and  anthropologists of different years has been considered in the article. The dynamics of the development of approaches to the study of this multifaceted and complex issue is monitored. The basic human identity formation concepts in the context of migration have been presented and analyzed, among which are: structuralism, the concept of transnational migration, the multicultural theory, the concepts of diversity and super-diversity. Based on the advantages of each of the concepts and taking into account their shortcomings, the main formation factors of personal identity, the role and importance of each of these factors in modern conditions of migration have been formulated.
The main thesis is that social networks leading to the accumulation of social capital, play the major role in this process, providing the structure for exchanging the ideas, values and identities over geographical and administrative obstacles. These social networks are highly dynamic and have different influence on the migrants’ identity and, consequently, have a significant impact on the prospects for their adaptation in a new country. People with migrant background become competent navigators within the super-diversity environment.
Migration processes remain extremely complex due to their dynamic and ambivalent nature, but their study is a crucial task for the modern and open world, as a person moves not only physically from country to country, but also brings his own cultural samples, which in cooperation with the cultural samples of the receiving country, form a new reality.

The problem of definition and operationalization of the “Online Generation” phenomenon has been discussed in the article. Based on the classical and modern approaches to determining the age boundaries of young people and based on socio-cultural characteristics of the modern young generation, the age boundaries of “Online Generation” have been proposed. “Online Generation” is the generation of modern youth whose socialization and maturation took place under the direct influence of Internet-culture and onlinecommunications.
Assumptions about such socio-psychological features of “Online Generation” as: the desire to prolong “social youth”, the lack of desire to take responsibility, etc., – have been made. In addition, the  phenomenon of “dematerialization of events” in the digital era has been revealed, when events, even large-scale and significant, having acquired the character of information lines, are being squeezed out of discourse (including from youth discourse), become “fundamentally distant” events that are no longer relevant to the present.
Analyzing the problem of “Online Generation” through the prism of the conflict of “fathers and children”, the author has come to the conclusion that the values of youth from 2010–2019 will be able to meet the values expected by society only if the society itself, its social, economic and political systems will correspond to the collective values required of modern youth. In other words, young people will be able to meet the declared ideals of pioneers and Komsomol members only in a planned economy, and when the country’s political system will correspond to the system of political system in the USSR, which is impossible in today’s conditions.