SOCIAL NEEDS OF CITIZENS: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of the sociological study of the social needs of city residents. The problems of the needs for social and humanitarian knowledge are revealed, special attention is paid to the analysis of social needs in the urban context. Four types of social needs are identified: the need for other people; the need for identity; the group needs of citizens; the need for justice. The presented division forms the need to clarify the bundle of needs and the actual environment of their implementation. The indices of the quality of the urban environment and the social needs of citizens are considered. The identified characteristics of the social needs of citizens allow us to develop a methodology for the survey of social needs. The necessity of developing intelligent tools for identifying the social needs of residents of Russian cities for monitoring urban development problems is substantiated.