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The article reveals eating patterns as a tool for human body construction. The main contradiction in the realization of eating patterns is the contradiction between the biological nature of the human body, predetermined by genetics and heredity, and the social standardization of corporality in modern social systems. Preferred food labels the human body in the context of its normativity, the phenomenon of the normative body of a person appears. The article states positive attitude of the younger generation to alter...

The analysis of informal payments in Russian education and healthcare is presented in the article. Sociological debriefing was in Ekaterinburg (Russia). Its results show that there is a corruption in social sphere. Government proclaims free education and healthcare but, in practice, doctors and educators, patients and parents justify payments and use it in their life.