Keyword: «index»

The paper deals with the evidences of ambiguity of communication between market structure (distribution of market shares – competences of its subjects) and quantitative estimates of unevenness of these distributions at application of methods of competences concentration index assessment (market shares) of their subjects. The most known subjects are decile and quintile coefficients, Lorenz-Jeanie's method (Jeanie's index) and Herfindahl-Hirschman index: absolutely different distributions of competences can be character-ized by the same value of index.

The paper presents the results of the quantitative assessment of competition levels inside the TOP 106 in-surance companies in the segments of capital, assets, sales and revenues on the basis of materials of the Forbes TOP-2000 largest companies in the world.

In the article the analysis of Russia's place in the international ranking of hospitality for 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 Identified negative and positive trends during the study period for each of the sub-indices: regulatory framework in the field of hospitality, tourism business environment and infrastructure and human, cultural and natural resources.

In this paper the author examines the main quality parameters and performance of a new type of society, which are recognized as a reduction in the production share in the social product, the role of knowledge and technology, based on it, the predominance of a particular information, the acceleration of technological processes, the development of the services sector, improving the quality of life of the population. The author focuses on the establishment of the information society, which is justified by rapid changes in science and technology, and this has led to the historical process through the domination of civilized approach, which allowed to mark the different stages of civilization becoming the world's population by way of technical progress.

The article identifies three types of contacting subjects of the study: positive, neutral, negative. The author shows their probabilistic character and the possibility of dividing them into clusters (disjoint sets). The classification of sociological indices is given. A method for describing and calculating sociological indices in fuzzy conditions is worked out, and examples of various fuzzy sociological indices calculation are considered.