Service Labor and Problems of State Management of the Russian Middle Class Development

The object of the research is value orientations of representatives of middle class, viewed through the prism of influence of the service labor sub-institute, which determines the character of the basic institutional model of the Russian society. The object of the research is cultural peculiarities and value orientations of middle class in Russia and trends of its further economic development and political participation in the process of establishment of the Russian version of civil society in view of the general vector of Russia’s modernization. It is concluded that sub-institute of service labor and the labor sub-culture continue to play an important role in the structure of value orientations of the Russian middle class, hindering its political activity and fixing its representatives to their job, thus slowing down the social mobility. As a result, the value orientations of Russian middle class help to form negative position as to the Western path of development, which orients its representatives to the practices of communal solidarity.