Fostering a "digital loyal subject": the role of the educational environment in legitimizing social control systems (experience of China and the Russian Federation)

The article examines the role of the modern educational environment in legitimizing social scoring systems and shaping a new type of civic identity — the «digital loyalist». Based on L. Althusser's theoretical concepts of ideological state apparatuses and M. Foucault's theory of panopticism, the authors analyze the mechanisms of normalizing surveillance in educational institutions. The main focus is on the experience of the PRC, where the integration of monitoring technologies into pedagogical practice transforms the concept of digital security into a tool of ideological loyalty. The paper presents a discussion comparing the Chinese model with Russian practices of educational digitalization (platforms like «Sferum», «Movement of the First», and electronic diaries). The authors substantiate the thesis that the educational environment serves as the primary link in digital socialization, where traditional institutional trust is replaced by algorithmic verification of reliability. It is concluded that the result of this transformation is the internalization of control, where the subject adapts their behavior to the requirements of automated assessment systems to maintain social mobility.