Strats participants of local online communities: the main features and characteristics

Abstract

This article discusses aspects of the stratification of network societies, in particular, describes
the features of the existence of lines of stratification in the local Internet community. The study of
the manifestations of various aspects of stratification in virtual groups based on a practical case
study, which aims to become a social-stratification analysis of local online communities that exist in
cyberspace large Russian cities. The summary of theoretical positions and the processing of the data,
the author concludes that in any local community is there a stratification scale on which realized a
ranking of users. A variety of criteria of the whole system status and role of the bundle, the skills of
participants on the application of these criteria, the community influence the degree of use of formal
and informal leaders of the community network moderation rights, and contribute ultimately to control
interactions in the virtual group. Stratification in the local virtual teams is a system-nature, as in the
absence of its social order is impossible. Meanwhile, the stable operation of the Internet community
is not possible without the presence of the stratification system as a form of institutionalization of
the social action. Abstracts of articles may be used in the implementation of socio-philosophical and
sociological analysis of the phenomena caused by the development of the Internet