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Теоретико-методологические подходы к изучению альтруизма: аналитический обзор
Социология: методология, методы, математическое моделирование. 2013. № 37. С. 179–207.
The article is a review of several main theoretical and methodological approaches for studying altruism which are popular in a range of social and behavioral sciences. I discuss some recent researches in the field, both theoretical and empirical, and provide a critical analysis of different methods of studying altruism, such as experiments and behavioral games. The article is structured according to the framework distinguishing kin, reciprocal, and genuine altruism as different concepts and models of explanation, as I emphasize the difficulty of separating methodology from theoretical considerations in this research area. It is also argued, that it would be useful for sociology of morality to incorporate some of the discussed methods in order to create an integrative approach for studying human altruism.
Sizov A., Rodionova M., Sedashov E. et al., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PS "Political Science". 2026. No. 1.
Rapid development of surveillance technologies is one of the most socially important consequences of the digital age. This paper investigates the factors determining consent to surveillance of various types of personal data and contributes to rapidly growing research on citizens perceptions of surveillance practices. Relying on a comprehensive survey experiment, we study the effects of ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Карцева М. А., Peresetsky A., / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP2 "Количественный анализ в экономике". 2026. № WP2/2026/01.
This study examines the association between health status among elderly individuals living alone and pet ownership (cats, dogs). We employ data from the “Time Use Survey” conducted by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2019, which contains information on more than 10,000 elderly individuals living alone aged 60 or older in Russia, including data ...
Added: May 8, 2026
Vorchik A., / Social Science Research Network. Серия SSRN Working Paper Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
This article is devoted to the phenomenon of intrinsic motivation, to understand which two models are proposed. We study how positive/negative intrinsic motivation to work (experienced utility) affects worker's individual labour supply (model I) and the amount of effort they exert (model II). In model I, we use intrinsic motivation to explain the positive/negative slope ...
Added: March 15, 2026
Bykov A., Theory and Society 2026 Vol. 55 Article 21
This article seeks to introduce Alasdair MacIntyre’s conception of virtue ethics into the sociology of morality as a redeveloping field of enquiry, focusing on the ways it could advance the sociological understanding of moral life. I argue that the virtue perspective, particularly in MacIntyre’s version, allows for conceptualizing morality as a personally and socially continuous ...
Added: March 9, 2026
Bykov A., Mikhaleva V., Sociology Compass 2026 Vol. 20 No. 3 Article e70178
Experimental philosophers have been long addressing the problem of folk metaethics, that is, laypeople's ideas about the nature of moral judgments, focusing especially on the question of whether such judgments are believed to represent some objective truth. While the results of their experiments, mostly conducted on small Western samples, suggest that certain personal and social ...
Added: March 3, 2026
Gofman A. B., Durkheimian Studies/Etudes Durkheimiennes 2025 Vol. 29 No. 1 P. 3–17
http://This article attempts to clarify the essence of Durkheim’s rationalism, especially in his interpretation of morality. The author distinguishes between two aspects, or meanings, of Durkheim’s rationalism: 1) epistemological one and 2) ontological one. In the first, epistemological sense, Durkheim was a convinced rationalist, defending rationalistic means of cognition of social phenomena. In the second, ...
Added: February 26, 2026
Бергсон А., М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2026.
This is a Russian translation of "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion", the last book by the Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927), the outstanding French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941). In this book the author develops the ideas of the closed and open society, closed and open morality, static and dynamic religion. The author ...
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Plusnin J., Идеи и идеалы 2025 Т. 17 № 1-1 С. 105–128
The author proposes a hypothesis of two types of mechanisms of social self-organization: its launch and maintenance of structural integrity. These are two fundamentally different mechanisms. Social self-organization requires four mandatory conditions: (1) a set of interacting elements (individuals), homogeneous in origin and creating, due to their common habitat, a behavioral population system; (2) the ...
Added: February 12, 2026
Musaev A. U., Vorchik A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This paper attempts to model the evolutionary theory of modernization and democratization. The model reflects the key provisions of R. Inglehart and C. Welzel's theory and provides a microfoundation for the adaptation of subjective values to the objective importances of the survival factors and the structure of the labour markets from the perspective of evolutionary ...
Added: February 10, 2026
Bykov A., Социологические исследования 2026 № 1 С. 15–25
Аннотация. В данной статье обсуждаются три проблемы, работа над которыми представляется автору актуальной для содержательного развития современной социологии морали – проблема определения морали, социологии метаэтики и «морального фона», а также морального статуса искусственного интеллекта. Показано, что несмотря на наличие некоторой традиции осмысления, а также более современных попыток интеграции этих проблем в предметную область социологии морали, ...
Added: January 23, 2026
Balashov D., Россия в глобальной политике 2025
August 2025 saw the publication of several commentaries in the American media, coinciding with the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan, which posited their ethical legitimacy. The present analysis critiques these claims and explores the underlying ethical problem: whether any use of nuclear weapons can be morally justified. ...
Added: January 19, 2026
Yefanov A., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение, журналистика 2025 Т. 30 № 4 С. 838–847
The subject of this research is the concept of a future Code of Ethics for Modern Media Communications – a set of normative rules. The goal is to articulate the problem of regulating media cultural principles based on a new paradigm. The theoretical and methodological framework draws on media culture theory, the concept of professional ...
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Dorkhanov I., Sokolov B., / Series OSF "SocArXiv". 2025.
This study investigates the relationship between individual religiosity and attitudes towards immigrants of different religious backgrounds in Europe. Using data from the 7th wave of the European Social Survey (2014-2015), we examine the influence of individual denomination and subjective religiosity level on hostility towards Muslim immigrants and the importance of immigrants’ Christian background. Our analysis, ...
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Nastina E., Sokolov B., / Series OSF "SocArXiv". 2025.
We argue that a classification-based approach to measuring cultural differences across countries or subnational regions is a promising complement, and sometimes an alternative, to the widely used dimensional method in cross-cultural research. The latter summarises cultural variation using continuous dimensions, for example, Hofstede’s famous individualism-collectivism dimension. However, this approach relies on strong parametric assumptions, which are ...
Added: December 23, 2025
Korsunava V., Sokolov B., / Series OSF "SocArXiv". 2025.
Non-probability web surveys offer several advantages over face-to-face (F2F) interviews—they are cheaper, faster, more accessible, and reduce interviewer effects and desirability bias. As such, they are increasingly popular in both academic and commercial research. However, they often yield demographically biased samples, raising concerns about the accuracy of the resulting public opinion estimates. Most studies on ...
Added: December 23, 2025
Oganyan A., Вестник Института социологии 2026 Т. 17 № 1 С. 232–255
This work presents a broad review of the history, theory, methods, and findings of research on social comparison (SC). It sequentially examines the evolution of understanding SC from the philosophical works of D. Hume and I. Kant to the first systematic theory by L. Festinger explaining the connection between comparison, self-esteem, and group processes, and ...
Added: November 18, 2025
Ustyuzhanin V., Zinkina J. V., Korotayev A., / Series Soc " SocArXiv". 2025.
Research of the impact of kin alloparenting on reproduction mainly focuses on mother’s parents and parents-in-law. The impact on fertility of extended families and the alloparental help with childcare they can provide has received much less attention. Moreover, there is an important lacuna in the existing studies of this problem, as it is mostly approached ...
Added: November 11, 2025
В.В. Чистяков, / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP7 "Математические методы анализа решений в экономике, бизнесе и политике". 2022. № 9.
Для понимания какого-либо качества, как правило, выбирается, некоторая подходящая для его оценки шкала (скажем, от 1 до 5), и, согласно этой шкале, качеству присваиваются одна или несколько оценок. Эти оценки затем преобразуются в одну, “усредненную”, оценку; например, выбирается среднее арифметическое. Так, несданная сессия с тремя баллами 5, 2 и 5 “характеризуется’’ средней оценкой хорошо: (5+2+5)/3 = ...
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Fabrykant M., / Series SocArXiv "SocArXiv". 2025.
This article explores to what extent the cross-national differences in pride reflect objective differences in countries’ performance in these spheres. The empirical study conducted to answer this question is based on the survey data from the International Social Survey Program – National Identity covering 32 countries and quantitative indicators of countries’ achievements in technology from ...
Added: October 7, 2025
Малахов В. С., Симон М. Е., Летняков Д. Э. et al., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2020.
The notion of “political accommodation” applied to the theory and practice of managing cultural diversity could enrich the Russian academic dictionary. Liberal democratic states invented specific mechanisms for political accommodation of cultural differences. Thanks to these mechanisms, the part of the population of a democratic state that is not ready to dissolve into the ethnocultural ...
Added: September 26, 2025
Ustyuzhanin V., Fain E., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PS "Political Science". 2025. No. 1.
This article aims to shed light on the economic consequences of the nonviolent campaigns (NVCs) across the world. The current era is shaped with various political transformations that are often driven by political movements that engage in NVCs. Some of them are successful and result in regime change while others fail and are unable to ...
Added: September 12, 2025
Zharakhovich M., Жукова А. В., / Open Society Foundations. Серия OSF "OSF Preprints". 2025.
This article presents an overview of the theoretical literature and empirical research pertinent to the study of the digitalized market of esoteric services in Russia and abroad. The objective of this review is to identify the specific strategies employed by experts in this market to maintain customer loyalty. The study is pertinent in light of ...
Added: July 16, 2025
Sokolov B., / Series OSF "SocArXiv". 2025.
This paper reviews various estimands used in modern scientific and applied research to operationalize causal inquiries within the Rubin Causal Model framework. I first introduce the most widely utilized average treatment effects, such as ATE, ATT, and ATC. I then describe their popular extensions, including those targeting local and conditional treatment effects; causal interactions and mediation; effects ...
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Ovanesova Y., Moshiashvili M. M., Типсина Н. О., / Series "Working Papers". 2021.
The purpose of this article is to analyze and evaluate the cultural characteristics of the digital ecosystem product teams leaders and operational efficiency. Using binary choice models (the main conclusions were made on the basis of logit regressions), has been found a significant negative relationship between the probability of achieving business goals by a team ...
Added: February 17, 2025