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The Middle Class in Russian Society: Homogeneity or Heterogeneity?
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This handbook's contributing autors are leading sociologists in the four countries. They fill the gap in existing literature and examine specifically the changes in each society from the perspective of social stratifications.
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Pishnyak A., Khalina N., Nazarbaeva E., Russian Politics 2026 Vol. 11 No. 1 P. 26–63
This article examines the heterogeneity of the middle class in contemporary Russia, focusing on the dimensions of progressiveness and innovativeness. Using survey data from 3,000 urban middle-class respondents, the study develops multidomain indices to measure progressiveness and innovativeness across employment, consumption, financial behavior, and attitudes. Findings reveal that while the Russian middle class is generally ...
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Asatryan G., Kalpakian J., Public Choice 2022 Vol. 190 No. 1 P. 251–253
The global expansion of the middle class, documented by World Bank data, has been accompanied by arguments that it will demand better governance and democracy in line with Barrington Moore’s observation that “no bourgeoisie, no democracy.” According to Acemoglu and Robinson (2006), “almost all revolutionary movements were led by middle class actors” (p. 39). Samuel ...
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Tikhonova N. E., В кн.: Общество неравных возможностей: социальная структура современной России.: Весь мир, 2022. Гл. 2 С. 45–71.
The chapter reviews the theoretical and methodological foundations of the model of stratification by life chances and risks, describes the operationalization of attributes of place in this model of stratification and characterizes the integral model of stratification of Russian society by life chances and risks. ...
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Pishnyak A., Khalina N., Рогачева А. P., Журнал исследований социальной политики 2023 Т. 21 № 1 С. 121–136
The COVID‑19 pandemic affected the position of broad groups of the popula
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tion. When speaking about risk groups at the beginning of the pandemic, some
experts paid special attention to the middle class, predicting its significant
impoverishment. This work is devoted to assessing the impact of the corona
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virus and related social policy measures on the income and consumption ...
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Pishnyak A., Khalina N., Population and Economics 2022 Vol. 6 No. 3 P. 80–100
In the modern world, a key skill is the ability to adapt to changing conditions, including mastering new programs, devices, technologies, ways to search for information, and sometimes new professions. With the outbreak of the pandemic – in the context of restrictive measures and transition to remote forms of employment – the problem of adaptation ...
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Gasiukova E., Korotaev S., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2022 Т. 31 № 1 С. 138–161
This article investigates the factors influencing political preferences through three competing theoretical approaches. How political views form can be explained through socialization (political preferences reflect ideas about what is right and proper, absorbed in the process of socialization), a utilitarian view (political preferences as a reflection of the pragmatic interests of individuals), psychological mechanisms (reaction to ...
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Plusnin J., М.: Common place, 2022.
Plusnin Juri M. Social structure of the provincial society. - M.: Commonplace; Foundation for social researches "Khamovniky", 2022. - 448 p.
The monograph provides an empirical description of the structure of the Russian provincial society at the local level. On the basis of phenomenological criteria, a typology of local societies was carried out. The social structure ...
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Tikhonova N. E., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2021 № 4 С. 121–138
Based on the data from allRussian surveys carried out by the Institute of Sociology of the FCTAS RAS, the paper shows that the level of economic, qualification, power and social resources among Russians is very low: a quarter of the population do not have any of them, and a third part have only one. The ...
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Tikhonova N. E., Социологические исследования 2021 № 8 С. 22–32
The article describes specifics of the social structure of Soviet society, three stages of its transformation in the late 1980s – late 2010s, and stratification models of modern Russian society. It is shown that the key foundations of the social differentiation in late Soviet society (merging of power and property, role of non-monetary privileges, etc.) ...
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Латов Ю. В., Tikhonova N. E., Terra Economicus 2021 Т. 19 № 2 С. 6–27
A striking contradiction exists between the post-industrial discourse, which is widespread in today’s Russia, and
lack of studies on social groups that are of crucial significance for the post-industrial society. Given the existing
groups of professionals, the most relevant for this study is the one described by Rosstat as “highly qualified
specialists”. This social group is beyond the ...
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М.: Новый хронограф, 2021.
The articles of well-known scientists present the most significant results of sociological and political research conducted at the Institute in recent years. ...
Added: November 9, 2021
Омск: Издательство ОмГПУ, 2003.
В сборнике представлены материалы Пятой региональной научно-практической студенческой конференции. Материалы содержат научные статьи студентов-психологов, социальных педагогов и социальных работников из Омска, Новосибирска, Уфы, Москвы. ...
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Mordvintseva V., Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia 2019 Vol. 10 P. 237–275
This paper is devoted to a comparative analysis of the elite burial complexes of the Lower Volga-Don region in different periods of the Sarmatian era, and to interpretation of the changes occurring in their distribution and composition. An overview of the changes in the rite, composition of burial goods, and spatial distribution of the “Barbarian” ...
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Tikhonova N. E., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2017 № 3 С. 6–35
This article explores the human capital of workers in modern Russia. The analysis is based on data from the 24th wave of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS-HSE); a representative sample of 12667 individuals, including 1679 workers. Occupational status was identified using ISCO-08. We show that Russian workers are divided into two groups at a roughly 3:1 ratio. The smaller ...
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Kamenskii A. B., Российская история 2021 № 1 С. 151–157
The article is part of the discussion of the monograph " Granytsy i Markery Sotsialnoi Stratifikatsii v Rossii XVII - XX vv" (SPb. 2018) ...
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М.: Новый хронограф, 2020.
Настоящий выпуск Ежегодника «Россия реформирующаяся» является восемнадцатым по счету и представляет результаты основных исследовательских направлений Федерального научно-исследовательского социологического центра Российской академии наук.Очередной выпуск Ежегодника состоит из четырех частей. Перваячасть выпуска посвящена трансформации социальной структуры российского социума. Вторая часть содержит материалы исследованийценностных установок и верований современных россиян. Третья часть, посвященная проблемам современного российского общества, представлена статьями, ...
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Karavay A., Журнал исследований социальной политики 2016 Т. 14 № 2 С. 229–244
This article considers the attitude of Russian workers to their resources by employing the empirical data of 2014 from the all-Russian research of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. What emerges is that manual workers and those employed in the trade and services industry are similar in their behavior and the ...
Added: November 5, 2020
Tikhonova N. E., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2020 Т. 29 № 4 С. 34–56
The main approaches to the study of the middle class can be put in two groups: economic and sociological. They are based on different theoretical assumptions and are used to solve different research problems. The economic approach is primarily important for the purposes of social policy, whereas the sociological one allows a better understanding of a particular society ...
Added: October 30, 2020
Karavay A., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2015 № 125 С. 83–85
The article is based on the evidence obtained in the all-Russian study conducted by the Institute of Sociology in 2014 and provides an analysis of the specifics of the actual behavior of the Russian workers and their settings regarding their financial income. The results are compared with the common settings and behavior and, in particular, with the settings ...
Added: October 21, 2020
Tikhonova N. E., Social Sciences 2020 Vol. 51 No. 2 P. 25–45
In this article, I analyze typical views, attitudes and selfidentifications
in the three principal strata of today’s Russian society from
the perspective of Max Weber’s theory of positive and negative life chances.
By analyzing the returns of two national surveys carried out by the Federal
Sociological Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2015
and 2018, I demonstrate ...
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Grigoryev D., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2020 Т. 23 № 2 С. 215–244
Данная обзорная статья знакомит читателей с современным состоянием исследований в рамках модели содержания стереотипов и некоторым опытом её применения для объяснения содержания этнических стереотипов в России. Были даны определения двум базовым компонентам социальной перцепции (теплоте и компетентности), описаны их антецеденты (взаимозависимость и статус) и последствия (согласно модели BIAS), а также возможные эффекты компенсации. Применительно к ...
Added: June 8, 2020
Tikhonova N. E., Общественные науки и современность 2019 № 3 С. 20–35
The article, which is the second part of a block of two (the first article was published in the previous issue of the journal), presents an analysis of some of the challenges that Russian social policy currently face, based on the data from nationwide surveys. However, the first article was focused on systemic challenges, while ...
Added: September 5, 2019