XI REPUBLICAN STUDENTS SUBJECT OLYMPIAD

On March 27-29, 2019 the XI Republican Student Subject Olympiad in Sociology was held in Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, which was attended by 3rd year students of the specialty "sociology" of the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University - Smankulova A., Uan A., Zhadyger B. under the direction of the teacher of the department - Almas Askaruly.

In general, 9 teams took part in the competition. Almaty presented 3 teams of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and the team of the Kazakh State Women's Pedagogical University, the team of KarSU named after Buketov arrived from Karaganda, the team of West Kazakhstan State University named after M. Utemisov arrived from Uralsk, Ahmet Yasui International Kazakh-Turkish University, as well as the Military Institute of Land Forces of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan arrived from Turkestan.

The Olympiad consisted of 3 stages. The first stage is teamwork, which was given in advance as homework, preparation of a video on the theme “My specialty is my pride”. With the help of a previously prepared video, all the teams introduced their university, informed about the specialty “Sociology” and presented the team members. At this stage of the competition, the team «Neo-Sociology» of L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University was awarded by a decision of the jury members for complying with the content requirements.

In the second stage, the teams presented the results of research projects on their proposed topics. Project themes were proposed in 3 areas:

1) The influence of power on social systems, groups and people;

2) Youth in society;

3) Sociological idea and imagination in the perception of the world.

The team of the Eurasian National University defended the topic “Sociological thought in modern society: a problem in choosing a specialty for youth”, thereby the students touched upon the most pressing issue of the day - employment, indicating the reasons for the possibility of youth unemployment. Most of the other works were related to the political and social activity of young people.

The final third stage was held as a competition for team captains, whose main task was to give correct answers to tests based on sociological theories.

As a result, the team of the Eurasian National University took the honorable third place at the XI Republican Sociology Olympiad. The winners were awarded with special diplomas, money and memorable prizes.