The emergence of a pre -ariat is a new trend towards a change in the social structure of society (a review of the results of research by modern sociologists)

This article analyzes the prekariat as a new layer in modern society. New forms of employment, the possibility of simultaneous getting of two or more specialties in the absence of stable employment in the obtained profession - all this causes the necessity for studying the emergence of new social strata to which sociologists now include the precariat. The results of the first studies conducted in recent years provide an opportunity and at the same time create the need to analyze the determinants (causes, factors, conditions) the emergence of this new social stratum in the social structure, to classify the precariat as a new social phenomenon in social stratification. It is shown that the research methodology of problems of precariat formation, the multidimensional social stratification, allows to deeply investigate the causes and factors of the emergence of the precariat. In the process of analysis and review of research of modern Russian sociologists devoted to the emergence and development of the precariat (Zh.T. Toshhenko, Z.T. Golenkov, N.E. Tihonov, O.I. Shkaratan and others), the generalized sociological characteristics of the precariat are defined. The groups that can in the future with great probability to join the precariat are identified (in particular graduates). On the basis of the studied materials in the article conclusions are made about the possible location of the precariat in the social structure, its role in the processes of social stratification, and about the likelihood of changes in the social structure of the society, subject to the further trend towards the precariat development.