Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2018)

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The State of Woody Plants of Natural and Anthropogenic Ecosystems of the European Part of Russia and Their Bioindication Value

Tatiana Gromova, Anna Ermolenko, Irina Siraeva, Maksim Larionov, Nikolai Larionov, Tatiana Zavidovskaya
Natural and anthropogenic ecosystems of the European part of Russia are quite diverse. Of particular importance for science and practice are environmental studies of urban and suburban natural and anthropogenic ecosystems to establish the state of their functional components - plants that are producents...
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Ecophilosophy and Cultural Environment

Irina Ponizovkina, Elena Agibalova
The article is dedicated to the development of ecophilosophic view on the modern world. The authors focus on the theoretical and practical importance and relevance of this problem andsuggest expanding the framework of philosophic sense attributed to the notions of ecology and environment. The article...
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An Analysis of the Adventive Component of Tree and Shrub Plants of the Southeast of Russia

Maxim Larionov, Nikolai Larionov, Irina Siraeva, Tatiana Gromova, Anna Ermolenko
The given paper presents the results of a long-term study of the species diversity of tree and shrub plants used in landscaping of the urbanized areas of the south-east of Russia (using the example of the Voronezh region). 97 adventive species of trees and shrubs which belong to 27 families and 63 genera...
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The Meaning of the Phytotoxicity of the Soils of Transformational Landscapes in the Southeast of Russia

Nikolai Larionov, Maxim Larionov, Irina Siraeva, Tatiana Gromova, Anna Ermolenko, Tatiana Zavidovskaya
The levels of the phytotoxicity of soils in different territorial objects of urban landscapes in the south east of Russia (using the example of towns of Saratov and Voronezh regions) are defined. The levels of degradation of soils using the indicators of phytotoxicity are defined with singling out zones...
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Main Vectors of the Development of a New Civilizational Environmental Paradigm

Marina Ivleva
The work proves the urgency of posing the problem of formation and development of a new civilizational paradigm in the conditions of the crisis of technogenic civilization. Based on the formulated principles for the development of a new civilizational paradigm, an ecological paradigm of public consciousness...
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Mind as an Important Environmental Priority and the Need for Ecologically-targeted Thinking

Tatiana Leshkevich
The article substantiates the importance of environmental priorities and ecologically-targeted thinking in the era of modern technogenic development. The goal is to justify the fact that the quality of environmental interactions depends on the degree of human reasonableness. Developing this idea, the...
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Safe Socio-natural Evolution on the Back of Environmental Risks

Tatiana Naumova
Environmental safety is perceived as one of the priority needs of the personality, society and the state, among their other vital needs, since for the first time in the human history it is becoming a decisive factor for the self-preservation of mankind at the time of the global environmental crisis....
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On Psychological and Pedagogical Aspects of Human Interactions with the Environment in the Interests of Sustainable Development

Victor Panov
The article describes some psychological and pedagogical aspects of human interactions with the environment in the interests of sustainable development. The emphasis is placed on the fact that the implementation of the Sustainable Development Strategy requires active use of ecological consciousness....
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Ecology of External and Internal Environment in the Socio-natural System

Vladimir Falko, Valentina Maykova, Eduard Molchan
The notion of environment, relative to the category of system, includes not only the external environment (surrounding), but also the internal environment (context) of the system. However, the notion of internal environment in the system theories, social and ecological sciences is comprehended ambiguously...
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Discussion on the Harm of Antibiotics to Human Health in Water Environment and Its Countermeasures

Yu Wang
The development and application of antibiotics have changed the lives of human beings and contributed important strengths to human health. However, with the increasing abuse of antibiotics, the harm caused by antibiotics to human sustainable development is becoming more and more obvious. Antibiotics...
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Ecosophy in the Context of Various Types of Scientific Rationality

Zoya Denikina, Anatoliy Denikin
The article defines the subject and concept-methodological means of modern ecosophy. The problems of ecological thought are reviewed in the context of the specifics of social systematicity, and the evolution of views on socionatural system is revealed with respect to the existing types of scientific...
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Study on the Application of the Green Principle in the General Provisions of the Civil Law From the Perspective of Sustainable Development Strategy of Energy Resource

Yabei Liu, Huafeng Lu
The green principle established by the General Principles of Civil Law is highly compatible with the strategic action plan for energy conservation and environmental protection established by China's energy development strategy. However, the research results combining the two have not yet emerged in academic...
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The Application of Taoism Culture in the Sichuan Bonsai

Jiaqi Luo, Yufan Ding, Xiaoyu Ming, Kezhu Lu, Xiaofang Yu
Taoism has gone through more than three thousand years of history, its ideological accomplishments penetrate many aspects of Chinese aesthetics. Since Taoism Developed in Sichuan at the end of the eastern Han dynasty, it plays a great part in the modeling, production and artistic aesthetics of Sichuan...
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Cultivating Sentiment and Soul and Poetically Living The Creation Thought and Aesthetic Features of Ancient Chinese Garden Architecture

Chenglin Yang
Ancient Chinese garden architecture is an important part of Chinese architectural art. It incorporates the aesthetic characteristics of Chinese classical philosophy, literature and painting and calligraphy. It is entrusted with the life ideals and humanistic feelings of the literati of the dynasties,...
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Present Application Status and Prospect of Bryophytes in Landscape Architecture

Xiaoyu Ming, Yufan Ding, Panpan Cao, Chunnong Li, Linyun Tan, Xiaofang Yu
This paper summarized the research progress, application value and status of bryophytes, introduced its collocation with other landscape elements. The goal of this paper is to provide certain theoretical basis and design suggestions for landscape application of the bryophytes in future, at the same time,...
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Models of Social Cognition: from Classics to Post-Non-classics

Anna Ivanova
The article presents a model of intradisciplinary and philosophical consideration of social theory, and an attempt to synthesize them is made. The internal perspective allows to trace the basic interpretations of ontology and methodology of social (opposition "action-structure", "objectivism-subjectivism"),...
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Digital Resocialization of Elderly People

Ivan Lapshin
The process of socialization today is a process that occurs with most of the people. However, there are many different processes that may be called “socialization” and they come with many subtleties, which are implied according to or despite the will of those being socialized. In the last decades, many...
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Modernization Models of the Second Half of the XX Century in a Comparative Historical Dimension

Tatiana Suzdaleva, Konstantin Fedorov
The basic models of modernization in the second half of the XX century are considered. The main attention is paid to the analysis of the achievements and contradictions of the “catching-up” model of modernization adopted by the countries of East and South-East Asia. On the basis of a comparative historical...
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Mental Bases of Social Solidarity

Nikolay N. Gubanov, Nikolay I. Gubanov
Four pairs of mental features are singled out and characterized: constructive similarities, destructive similarities, constructive differences, destructive differences. Constructive similarities and differences cause the integration of the society, while destructive similarities and differences lead...
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Mental Responses to Risks in Modern Society

Nikolay N. Gubanov, Nikolay I. Gubanov
Risk abundance of modern society is shown. Risk as systematic interaction of society with threats and dangers produced by the process of modernization is considered. As mental responses to risk appearance connected with scientific and technical process, social and ethical expertise of scientific programmes...
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Utopian Thinking and Contemporary Reality

Olga Khalutornykh
The image of a society, arbitrarily designed by mass consciousness, acting as an object of human practical activity, giving samples of social life invariably reflect utopias. Utopianism in all historical versions, considers society as a mechanical system, suggesting that it is possible to establish a...
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Dynamics of Social Consciousness in the Methodology of Simulating Social Systems as a Way of Predicting Social Development Trends

Valentina Maykova, Andrey Maykov
Presented by a technique for solving one of the problems that are instrumental for predicting development of social systems, specifically social consciousness dynamics, taking into account actual properties of the society and the interaction of all possible components of the model, which are contemporary...
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Urban Population Resettlement in the Arctic Zone of Russia

Viktor Fauzer, Tatyana Lytkina, Lyubov Kuratova, Galina Fauzer
The article is devoted to the theoretical problems of population resettlement in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. It shows the changes in the settlement system in the 2000s. A grouping of settlements according to the number of inhabitants is carried out. The main attention is paid to thestudy...
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Investigation of the Impact of Father's Occupation on the Subjective Well-being of College Students with Left-behind Experience

Zhengzheng Chen
Objective: to understand the influence of father's occupation on subjective well-being of college students with left-behind experience, and to provide reference for colleges to carry out psychological crisis intervention for college students. Methods: Through overall randomized questionnaire survey,...
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Study on the Motif of Dream in Uygur Folk Dastan

Aili Tuxunayi, Rousitaimujiang Abudouriyimu
Dream is a physiological phenomenon, and also a psychological phenomenon, but the most important thing is that dream is a cultural phenomenon. It is an indispensable and important part of the Uighur folk Dastan. This paper focuses on the dream motif in the Uighur folk Dastan, and discusses the dream...
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The Causes, Manifestations, Negative Influences of the Moral Nihilism in Current China and Solutions to It

Gao Peng
The Moral Nihilism is a practical problem in the process of modernization in China, the main connotation of which is the negation and nihilization to all moral norms and moral values.(Yang Jinhua 10) This problem has many negative influences on the stability, harmony, development and progress of our...
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Contemporary Values of the Thoughts of Moral Education in the Traditional Family Instructions

Yufeng Jiang
China is a country where people attach great importance to family education. Under this background, the traditional family instructions as the literature of family education have produced and survived today. Being an organic component of the traditional culture, the traditional family instructions entail...
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Study on Wedding Customs in Uygur Folk Dastan

Rousitaimujiang Abudouriyimu, Aili Tuxunayi
As a crucial part of the people's spiritual life, folk Dastan is one of important ways for people to exchange information, communicate ideas, express emotions and ideals, and preserve culture. Throughout a lasting process of human production and living activities, Dastan has become a part of Uygur life,...