Social mechanisms for countering corruption in the digital society’s youth environment

The need to study the specifics of the phenomenon of corruption and anti-corruption measures in a digital society has been substantiated in the article. Based on the analysis of legislation, a sociological interpretation of the concepts of corruption, corruption prevention, indicators of corruption practices, and anti-corruption mechanisms is carried out. Each concept is presented both in its essential form and as a set of social parameters to be studied. The results of the analysis of the source base on anti-corruption issues and characteristics of the digital society have been presented. Information technology and information and communication indicators of social diagnostics of digital society problems have been described separately. The characteristic of sociological research conducted by the authors has been given and also the results of ranking and of determining the weight characteristics of such anti-corruption mechanisms have been outlined, as: the inevitability of responsibility for corruption offenses, publicity and openness of activities of state bodies and bodies of local self-government, implementation of the principles of “legality” and “recognition, maintenance and protection of fundamental human and civil rights and freedoms in Russia”, the integrated use of political, organizational, awareness-raising, socio-economic, legal, special and other measures, priority application of measures to prevent corruption, creating attitudes among the population not to accept corrupt actions as a way to solve their problems, forming a legal consciousness among young people that rejects corruption as an acceptable form of behavior and acceptable social practice for achieving success in life, cooperation between the state and civil society institutions, international organizations and individuals, development of digital technologies and virtual services in the system of corruption prevention, training and training of personnel in the field of theory and practice of corruption prevention, creation of public councils under the authorities with the participation of representatives of civil society, public opinion leaders, scientists, artists to develop measures to prevent corruption. Priority scientific problems, the development of which can increase the effectiveness of social mechanisms used to prevent corruption among young people, have been explained by the authors: development of legal anti-corruption foundations, research of socio-psychological methods of forming students’ legal awareness, conceptualization of scientific data on the use of digital technologies for social development.