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Депрессивное медиапотребление (исследование телевизионных предпочтений сельских жителей)
Вестник Московского университета. Серия 10: Журналистика. 2013. № 5. С. 53–63.
Kiriya I., Novikova A.
The article presents the results of a television consumption survey of rural residents. We prove that people choose the TV content that corresponds to their mindset. This is true to people of all ages and socio-cultural status. These views suggest that the villagers are in a state of social depression - they tend to become less sensitive and more alienated towards symbols, values and conventions of the present-day media. Thus we introduce the term "depressive media consumption" that refers to this rural viewing pattern.
Language:
Russian
Publication based on the results of:
Akaliyski P., Vignoles V., Welzel C. et al., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2025 Vol. 130 No. 2 P. 308–356
Individualism–collectivism (I-C), the most widely researched cultural dimension, is often equated with Hofstede’s pioneering nation scores. Concerns are growing about these scores’ validity, but subsequent research has not produced a widely accepted alternative. Here, we offer a refined theoretical conceptualization of I-C, we systematically reevaluate the validity of Hofstede’s I-C scores, and we report the ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Minkov M., Akaliyski P., Kaasa A. et al., Journal of International Business Studies 2025 Vol. 56 No. 9 P. 1197–1206
Numerous studies focus on the tightness–looseness (TL) dimension of national culture, reporting important implications for business and management. However, the main TL measure has generated a number of theoretical and empirical concerns. It likely reflects unfounded national auto-stereotypes, the conceptual boundary between TL and individualism–collectivism (IC) is blurred, respondents in different societies have different TL-related ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026.
This collection of papers explores the epic traditions of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, bringing together insights from remarkable scholars. Topics range from the cuneiform epic of Erra to Homeric epics and Greco-Roman literature, shedding light on the role of epic texts in shaping collective identities and understanding ancient societies. The validity of ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Yeung J. C., Lun V. M., Li L. M. et al., Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 2026 P. 1–30
Contemporary theories of emotion emphasize the dual role of emotions as both personal
experiences and communicative signals during social interactions. However, the impact of
macro-level societal structures on emotional expression remains underexplored. This study
investigates the expression-experience discrepancy for self-reported emotions across nations,
focusing on how societal development relates to this discrepancy, which captures expressivity.
Using meta-analysis and multilevel modeling ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Sherstinova T., Урих А. Е., Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: Лингвистика и межкультурная коммуникация 2026 Т. 24 № 2 С. 42–54
Цифровые технологии XXI века способствуют формированию новых методологических подходов в гуманитарных науках, включая литературоведение и биографические исследования. Для автоматизации процессов сбора и аннотирования информации все чаще используют большие языковые модели (Large Language Models, LLM), включая ChatGPT. Развитие подобных инструментов стимулирует переход от традиционных методологических подходов, основанных на исключительно ручном аннотировании и экспертной верификации, к гибридным, ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Khurshudyan V., Plungian Vladimir, Stepanyants Maxim, Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2026 No. 5 P. 81–98
This study examines the range of strategies used to encode future time reference in Standard EasternArmenian, situating them within the broader context of other Modern Armenian varieties. Illustrative data are drawn from Standard Western Armenian, the Hadrut dialect, and the Hamshen dialect. Adopting a semantic approach, we employ the term “future time reference” to delimit ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2025 Vol. 23 No. 3-4 P. 344–374
The article continues the series of publications focused on the reassessment of the controversial Hokan hypothesis. In this paper, the traditional comparative method is applied to the reflexes of Proto-Hokan obstruents and glottal stop. The obtained results are compared to Terrence Kaufman’s (1989) reconstruction of Proto-Hokan. ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Loesov S., Häberl C., Бромирская А. С., Journal of Semitic Studies 2026 Vol. 71 No. 2 P. 765–812
This contribution presents three excerpts from a Modern Western Aramaic interview collected in December 2020 in Maaloula, Syria. In the interview, the narrator relates his own biographical details, the legendary life of Thecla, and a personal account of a miraculous healing. The local traditions concerning Thecla feature distinctive motifs, including the miraculous opening of the ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Micah Y.B. Zing, Alisa R. Shishkina, Международная аналитика 2026 Vol. 2 No. 17 P. 126–138
The article focuses on the Western mainstream media (WMM) discourse on Russia-Africa relations and how Russo-Western information confrontation affects the diplomatic dialogue between Russia and African states. Historically, the Soviet Union fostered a friendly relationship with the continent, characterised by solidarity and mutual respect. The collapse of the Soviet Union, the WMM discourse on Russian-African ...
Added: September 25, 2026
Zemtsov A., Пути России. Журнал cоциальных и этнографических исследований 2026 Т. 4 № 1 С. 142–148
Рецензия посвящена книге Давыдова и Абрамова - "Пастыри и постройки. Как устроена православная община". Автор рецензии реконструирует основные тезисы и аргументы исследователей, выделяет, на его взгляд, ключевые результаты работы, вклад социологов в изучение внутреннего устройства современной православной общины в России ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Stupitskiy A., Социологические исследования 2026 № 8 С. 92–105
The classical theory of platforms describes user dependency on digital ecosystems as a
rational economic choice: users stay because it is convenient and switching is costly. But what happens
when there is nowhere to switch — not because alternatives are less convenient, but because the state
has eliminated them? This article introduces the concept of “sovereign lock-in” to ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Dunde T. O., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 12: Социология 2026 Vol. 19 No. 1 P. 111–137
This systematic literature review examines how international students engage with urban spaces using Henri Lefebvre’s Relational Space Theory, challenging Berry’s bidimensional acculturation model. The review synthesizes 35 peer reviewed articles published between 1991 and 2025, identified through searches across six academic databases and manual screen-ing of journals. Using content analysis integrating text mining with close ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Shkolnikov, V. M., Timonin, S. A., Jdanov D. et al., Plos One 2026 Vol. 21 No. 2 P. 1–15
For decades, life expectancy in Eastern Europe has lagged behind that in Western Europe, although the gap has narrowed since the mid-2000s. We examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these long-term trends by estimating and decomposing East-West differences in excess mortality and life expectancy losses. Regression models were used to explore the contribution ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Butovskaya M., Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 2026 No. 29 P. 1078–1083
We examined how language affects moral judgments in a non-WEIRD population. Tanzanian
participants (N = 103) evaluated utilitarian agents in moral dilemmas, either in native Chagga or
foreign Swahili. Agents were rated significantly more moral and braver when evaluated in a
foreign language. Bravery predicted morality more strongly in the foreign language than in the
native language. Indirect sacrifices ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Radaev V., Демографическое обозрение 2025 Т. 12 № 4 С. 4–44
В данной работе рассматриваются понятия взрослости и взросления как отдельного этапа в рамках жизненного цикла с опорой на демографическую и социологическую литературу. Обсуждается вопрос о том, как трансформируются в настоящее время модели взросления. А в эмпирической части делается попытка ответить на следующие вопросы: действительно ли молодые поколения (миллениалы и зумеры) откладывают события, связанные с взрослением, ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Poddiakov A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026. No. 7437658.
Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) and abductive reasoning is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity which supplements combinatorial logic when dealing with the already known. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce ...
Added: September 15, 2026
Ustyuzhanin V., Zinkina J. V., Korotayev A., / Series "SocArXiv". 2026.
“Leaderlessness” is widely held to be a defining feature of contemporary mass mobilization, yet the claim rests on a handful of recent cases. We offer the first systematic cross-national analysis of this phenomenon from 1791 to 2019. We show that the absence of leadership is real but older and more modest than claimed: the share ...
Added: August 29, 2026
Kazun A. D., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2026 Т. 35 № 3 С. 101–121
This study analyzes interviews with news avoiders to identify the underlying motivations for this behavior. News avoidance is interpreted by informants as a purposeful action—a deliberate, rational choice based on an assessment of the benefits of news and the costs of consuming it. While interviewees predominantly cite the negative impact on emotional well-being and physical ...
Added: June 19, 2026
Kravtsova M., Musaev A. U., Welzel C., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
Elaborating on Welzel et al.'s "Cool Water Theory," our study zooms into the more limited (albeit still varied) framework conditions of Russia's huge territory. Within Russia's confines, we examine how the combination of moderately cool seasons with steady rain (i.e., Cool Water) affects sub-national areas' contemporary societal progress in two modernization indicators: material prosperity in ...
Added: June 3, 2026
Kudriavtseva E., / РЦИС. Серия № 0148-756-286. 2026.
The content of the work is the system is a system for identifying four types of written speech structures. A set of 11 calculated parameters, statistical standards, and semantic characteristics allows for the identification of a text's structure as the result of a specific cognitive schema (scene, event, story, evaluation). The method has been verified ...
Added: June 2, 2026
Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
Added: May 31, 2026
Kuzina L., Popov E., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2026 № 2 С. 170–191
The article examines internet users' tactics for verifying false (fake) information and the factors associated with fact-checking. Working within the framework of the theory of prosumerism and everyday tactics (Michel de Certeau), the authors of the study aim at identifying and describing the arsenal of fact-checking tactics used by the Russian internet audience, and to ...
Added: May 16, 2026
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
Kazun A. D., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2026 № 2 С. 192–215
This article examines how Russians conceptualize the groups most vulnerable to fake news. Drawing on 119 semi-structured interviews conducted in spring 2024, I find clear evidence of the third-person effect: participants believe that disinformation primarily threatens “others” who differ from them on salient dimensions. Age is the most common basis for dividing society into “us” ...
Added: May 12, 2026