Stereotypes of employees of power structures in conditions of structural reforming of law enforcement agencies
During the past few years, law enforcement system has undergone certain changes which purpose, undoubtedly, was to increase of activity effectiveness. What kind of image of employees of power structures is formed by the present time? Identification of dominating perception stereotypes of power structures employees allows to determine which features are attributed, which emotional and evaluative attitude, which population's expectations appear in relation to activity of both separate employees and law enforcement agencies in general. The level of loyalty to a certain social institution is one of indices of social capital of population. In the article, they study factors, which influence on forming of an image of a power structure's employee. They analyze results of study of stereotypes of law enforcement employees by employees themselves and by three age groups of population (young people to 30 y.o., representatives of early maturity from 30 to 45 y.o. and people from 45 older) of the Irkutsk region.