Abstract

Public transportation is a functional system, which aim is to satisfy critical public needs. It forms a special sphere of socio-cultural relations with their spatial and temporal boundaries and is determined by the complex role expectations and internalized values. Everyday culture of public transport is a value system, a synthesis of formal rules and informal arrangements in which the status of interaction between consumers and representatives of transport services is being formed, discriminatory practices are being reproduced, values and norms of the passenger and driver community are being formed and become models for action. Public transport is an integral component of urban culture of everyday life, which works out in the framework of the particular collective experience of the variations of human relationships, including the distinctive value-symbolic and structural dimensions of cultural practices. Therefore, it is necessary to deepen the understanding of conditions for creation and changes of social and cultural order of transport commonness, in particular, professional subculture of drivers of public transport, the elements of solidarity of temporary passenger communities and civil potential users of transport services, which are made in the process of daily practices. Sociological analysis of these aspects is of considerable interest both for theoretical and practical understanding of social and cultural relations, mediated by the transport sector. It stands in line with the applied problems of improvement of transport services as an element of urban policy. Transport space acts as a special value in conditions of deficiency and becomes the reason for competition on resource, determining the features of temporary bodily practices of the community, rules of distribution and zoning of the internal spaces, creating a synthesis of traditional knowledge and tactics of the actors in the everyday drama. The text in the form of cognitive map, that is, the visual image of the space reflects the experience of the subject, the image in the form of a drawing or diagram, appears as a way of seeing the geography from the passenger routine. Sociological study of the transport sectors is innovative and perspective. Sociologists will have to study comprehensive central points of the development of transport industry, the role of transport in social processes, socio-cultural determination of functioning, the specifics of norm-formation, and so on.