Makarova S.E.
We analyze Russian scientific and technical intelligentsia using system approach, which allows us to describe its structure and social dynamics. The author uses the idea that the main features of the object under consideration are primarily cultural, rather than social, political or ideological parameters, and all of the object representatives correspond to a certain subculture.
Keywords: system approach, scientific and technical intelligentsia, identification element of the intelligentsia, the operational element of the intelligentsia, reserve or peripheral element of the intelligentsia, active and passive representatives of the identification core..