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The youth of Russia and Serbia: social trust and key generational problems
RUDN Journal of Sociology. 2016. Vol. 16. No. 4. P. 816-829.
Suvakovic U., Narbut N., Trotsuk I.
Fabrykant M., / SocArXiv. Series none "none". 2021.
National pride and social trust are often perceived and used as alternative grounds for social cohesion. While national pride is essentially exclusive, because shared only by compatriots, trust in social institution is not, and the general interpersonal trust measured as trust in strangers is inclusive by definition. These differences create an opportunity for a variety ...
Added: July 10, 2021
Nesterova O., Распертова С. Ю., Полигнозис 2013 № 1-4(45) С. 135-145
The article substantiates comparative approach to study the culture of old age in modern Russia and China. Russian and Chinese cultures of old age are perceived as difficult semiotic spheres. The article demonstrates the role of national traditions in shaping the values of the culture of old age. The article reveals the role of dominant ...
Added: February 10, 2014
Trotsuk I., Narbut N., RUDN Journal of Sociology 2017 Vol. 17 No. 3 P. 338-347
The article presents the results of the comparative study of the neighboring countries’ images in the perception of the Russian student youth. In the first part of the article, the authors emphasize the importance of public opinion as one of the key social institutions in the contemporary society though it is often manipulated by state ...
Added: October 21, 2017
Нидерле П., Kurakin A. A., Никулин А. М. et al., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Социология 2019 Т. 19 № 2 С. 261-276
The ‘food regime’ approach was introduced as a historical method of “incorporated
comparison” (P. McMichael). This comparison of the role of agriculture in the world-system made some
scholars overemphasize an excessively unitary and coherent global food regime. The authors recognize
this approach as a historical-comparative analytical tool to understand global trends, but argue that
the Russian and Brazilian agrarian ...
Added: June 24, 2019
Shirokanova A., Журнал Белорусского государственного университета. Социология 2018 № 1 С. 135-143
This article compares social welfare attitudes in two major societies with the postsocialist social welfare regime, Poland and Russia. The aim of the article is to identify the differences in the ‘request for welfare’ among Poles and Russians at the beginning of the Great Recession of 2008 and after its end in 2016-17 by comparing ...
Added: June 1, 2018
Few words on the high level of social distrust among the Russian youth: Civil servants’ social image
Trotsuk I., Ivlev E., RUDN Journal of Sociology 2016 Vol. 16 No. 2 P. 375-385
Added: January 21, 2017
Maslovskiy M., Social Imaginaries 2017 Vol. 3 No. 1 P. 147-165
The article focuses on analyses of transformation processes in Brazil and Russia from the viewpoint of the multiple modernities theory. Shmuel Eisenstadt’s study of the Latin American version of modernity is characterised along with interpretations of his ideas in the works of contemporary sociologists. The peculiarities of modernisation in Brazil are singled out including the ...
Added: June 13, 2017
Pyle W., Schoors K., Semenova M. et al., / Universiteit Gent. Series Jaar "Working Paper". 2012. No. 780.
In the immediate aftermath of Russia’s 1998 crisis household depositors withdrew money from the insolvent and state-owned Sberbank, despite its unique protection by two explicit government guarantees and its reputation of a repository of trust. This was less the case in well-educated, older, more conservative and remote regions and more so in wealthy, entrepreneurial and ...
Added: November 12, 2013
Chepurenko A., Obraztsova O., Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации 2020 Т. 14 № 2 С. 199-211
The paper analyses the dynamics of business activity of the Russian population from
2005 to the present time, as well as persistent differences in its level between different groups of Subjects
of the Russian Federation basing on the statistics of small and medium-sized enterprises and business
statistics. It is shown that in Russia, there were three types of ...
Added: June 15, 2020
Büdenbender M., Golubchikov O., International Journal of Housing Policy 2017 Vol. 17 No. 1 P. 75-96
The article problematises the role of real estate in geopolitical circulations. The internationalisation of real estate increases mutual dependencies and vulnerabilities between nation states and, therefore, calls for a better appreciation of the geopolitical externalities and exteriorities of real estate. The article brings together disjoint bodies of literature on real estate globalisation, assemblage theory, and ...
Added: December 11, 2016
Semenenko I. S., Europe-Asia Studies 2015 Vol. 67 No. 2 P. 306-326
The post-Soviet period in Russia has seen the emergence of strong identities shaped around ethnicity issues. The current Putin presidency is marked by a political concern for the 'national question' with strong traditionalist connotations. State dominated politics of identity promoting an encompassing Russian (rossiyskaya) identity aim to become a game changer in nation-building. This agenda ...
Added: February 29, 2016
Kravchuk N. V., Irish Review of Community Economic Development Law and Policy 2012 Vol. 1 No. 2 P. 63-82
The main focus of this paper is the relation between the realisation of the right of the child to express his/her views and democracy in Russia. With this in view, I will study the interconnection between the right to express the views and the right to participate. Further, I will give an overview of the ...
Added: May 15, 2012
Biryukova S., Sinyavskaya O., Journal of Social Policy Studies 2017 Vol. 15 No. 3 P. 367-382
The paper presents a detailed analysis of the Russian official statistics for orphans and children placed out of parental care. Employing a wide range of data sources, the authors show that in Russia, the primary risk of orphanhood remains high. Although it has declined over the last 15 years, in 2015, the share of children ...
Added: September 26, 2017
Mitrofanova E., / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2017. No. 78/SOC/2017.
The aim of this study is to compare the sociodemographic events marking the transition to adulthood in France, Estonia and Russia: first leaving parents, completion of education, first partnership, first marriage and first childbirth. We used the first waves of the Generations and Gender Survey for these three countries and an advanced method – Sequence ...
Added: December 3, 2017
Rotmistrov A., / Social Science Research Network. Series SSRN Working Paper Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2015.
The events in Ukraine in 2013-2014 attracted the Russian society’s attention and affected the Russian political agenda. One of the most affected sectors of the Russian domestic policy was Russian nationalist organizations. The issue of radical nationalism has become essential for European countries and for Russia in particular. But this object is rather difficult to ...
Added: October 15, 2015
Davitadze A., Meylakhs P., Lakhov A. et al., Harm Reduction Journal 2020 No. 17 Article 98
Background: Harm reduction services to people who use drugs (PWUD) in Russia are insufcient in terms of quantity, government endorsement, and accessibility. The situation has recently deteriorated even further because of social distancing measures of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several organizations have started to provide some harm reduction services via online platforms by web outreach. However, ...
Added: January 28, 2021
Larina G., Markina V. M., / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2017. No. 43.
This article provides an empirically grounded analysis for two fundamentally different models of math teachers’ beliefs about student diversity in Russian secondary schools: exclusive and inclusive models. Although teachers’ beliefs are considered a central factor for the differentiated approach, teachers’ attitudes could be stereotyped and, consequently, the evaluation of a student’s ability would be systematically ...
Added: October 20, 2016
Salmina A., International Social Work 2014 Vol. 57 No. 5 P. 459-469
Based on the 2008 data from ESS, the article analyses the attitudes of Russians towards state social policy, and compares their opinions with those of populations in selected European countries. The research identifies the factors affecting social attitudes toward welfare policies. Results suggest that Russians believe that the majority of social support functions must be ...
Added: October 14, 2014
Natalia E. Tikhonova, Svetlana V. Mareeva, Russian Politics 2016 Vol. 1 No. 2 P. 159-183
The article uses statistical data and all-Russian sociological surveys conducted in 2003–2013 to analyze changes in poverty in Russian society.1 It is shown that, on the one hand, the scope of poverty in Russia decreased before the ongoing economic crisis started in 2014; on the other hand, those who remained poor have become the base ...
Added: June 22, 2016
Danilova I., Shkolnikov V., Andreev E. M. et al., Drug and Alcohol Review 2020 Vol. 39 No. 7 P. 790-796
Introduction and Aims
In the 1990s, a strong inverse relationship between life expectancy (LE) in Russia and mortality from alcohol poisoning was observed. This association is remarkable as this cause accounts for less than 2% of deaths each year. It can be explained by treating the alcohol poisoning mortality as the best available measure in Russia ...
Added: February 18, 2020
Busygina I., Онищенко А. Д., Балтийский регион 2019 Т. 11 № 1 С. 43-59
The ethnic makeup of the population significantly affects the domestic policy of any state, and its relations with neighbouring countries. Although interactions with ethnic minorities are not as urgent a problem in Lithuania as they are in the two other Baltic States, ethnicity-related conflicts continue to occur, particularly, as regards the relations between the Lithuanian ...
Added: November 8, 2019
Lanham : Lexington Books, 2015
This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, ...
Added: April 30, 2015
Tovar-García E. D., Alòs i Font H., Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 2016
This article empirically studies the impact of bilingualism on educational achievements. This relationship has been thoroughly studied in a number of countries around the world, but not in Russia. We used a sample of 709 ethnic Tatar school students aged 15–16 (in the ninth grade) in the spring of the year 2010. We found a ...
Added: August 20, 2016
Mitrofanova E., Демографическое обозрение 2019 Vol. 6 No. 5 P. 70-93
This paper is devoted to the analysis of the starting events marking the transition to adulthood, such as completion of education (vocational and higher), first employment, first separation from parents, first partnership, first marriage, and first childbirth.
The dataset of the research is the Russian part of the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). We prepared a ...
Added: November 23, 2020