Categorizing Civic Activities during Socio-Political Mobilization: Search and Construction of Research Approaches

Evgeny Golovatsky; Natalia Nyatina

doi:10.21603/2500-3372-2026-11-2-177-188

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CATEGORIZING CIVIC ACTIVITIES DURING SOCIO-POLITICAL MOBILIZATION: SEARCH AND CONSTRUCTION OF RESEARCH APPROACHES Categorizing Civic Activities during Socio-Political Mobilization: Search and Construction of Research Approaches

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Published in Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciences · Volume 11, Issue 2 · Pages 177–188 · Rubric: Society: Cultural and Political Development

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21603/2500-3372-2026-11-2-177-188 · EDN: ZFZPDT

Received: 25.11.2025 Accepted: 15.12.2025 Published: 14.07.2026

Authors

Evgeny Golovatsky

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Natalia Nyatina

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Evgeny Golovatsky

Academic degree: doctor of sociological sciences

Science rang: docent

Kemerovo State University Russian Federation · Kemerovo

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Natalia Nyatina

Kemerovo State University (Russia, Kemerovo) Russian Federation

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ABSTRACT

Emerging forms of civic participation in modern socio-political conditions require innovative research approaches. Analyzing communication in online communities helps to determine the intentionality and sensitivity of such activities. Within the context of socio-political mobilization of Siberian regions, these include situational, process, structural-functional, and mixed approaches. The active social engagement is analyzed against the backdrop of external geopolitical challenges for the Russian Federation and the ongoing process of social reset. The socio-political mobilization is considered as a complex and multidirectional social, economic, cultural, and political challenge. It includes such concepts and subjects as political consciousness and behavior, socio-economic and political innovations, civic activism, volunteers, and participants of the Special Military Operation, as well as various forms of social self-isolation, relocatees, political refugees, political tourists, foreign agents, objectors, etc. Effective public engagement implies communicative practices driven by public interest combined with a social demand for a practical result. Taking into account external and internal opportunities and limitations, socio-political mobilization in Russia acts as an assembly point, i.e., a platform of rapid communications demonstrating the content of socio-political interaction between the participating parties.

KEYWORDS

socio-political mobilization, social construction, typology, social activity, network community, resource-type regions

Funding

The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Project No. 24-28-01230: Social and political mobilization of constructive and destructive type in the conditions of multiple network worlds of Siberian regions of resource development: possibilities of using data-mining tools, https://rscf.ru/en/project/ 24-28-01230/

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Golovatsky E. V., Nyatina N. V. Categorizing Civic Activities during Socio-Political Mobilization: Search and Construction of Research Approaches // Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciences. 2026. no. 2. pp. 177-188. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21603/2500-3372-2026-11-2-177-188. EDN: ZFZPDT. (Date of access 19.10.2026).

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Evgeny Golovatsky, Nyatina N. V.. "Categorizing Civic Activities during Socio-Political Mobilization: Search and Construction of Research Approaches." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciences 11.2 (2026): 177-188. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21603/2500-3372-2026-11-2-177-188. EDN: ZFZPDT.

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Golovatsky E. V., Nyatina N. V. (2026). Categorizing Civic Activities during Socio-Political Mobilization: Search and Construction of Research Approaches. Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciences, 11(2), 177-188. https://doi.org/10.21603/2500-3372-2026-11-2-177-188 EDN: ZFZPDT.

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Evgeny Golovatsky, Nyatina N. V.. "Categorizing Civic Activities during Socio-Political Mobilization: Search and Construction of Research Approaches." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciences 11, no. 2 (2026): 177-188. https://doi.org/10.21603/2500-3372-2026-11-2-177-188. EDN: ZFZPDT.

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