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Russian Sociological Review: "Borders: Merging, Emerging, Emergent"
Academic editor: Filippov A. F.
Editor-in-chief: Farkhatdinov N.
This collection is a special issue of Russian Sociological Review dedicated to the concept of border. The concept itself seems to draw attention in many disciplines. As spatial phenomena, borders are always drawn in spaces, while social scientists, philosophers and other academics often have different meanings of space. Recent reconsiderations of space in terms of networks, flows and events, bring even more complexity to the concept. The current volume contributes to both theoretical and empirical studies of borders on various levels. Contributions look at the relevant phenomena from contemporary or historical perspectives, study narratives about borders, reconstructions of the empirical configurations of borders and other objects (such as bodies), exploring how borders emerge and reshape existing spaces, etc. Overall, the issue contributes to the emerging interdisciplinary field of border studies and encourages cross-disciplinary dialogue.
Research target:
Political Science, International Relations, and Public Administration
Earth Sciences
Biology
Sociology (including Demography and Anthropology
Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Studies
Priority areas:
sociology
Language:
English
Publication based on the results of:
Поликарпова Д. А., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2025.
Может ли кино быть субъектом, а не объектом особой чувственности? В своей книге Дарина Поликарпова утверждает, что да; более того, идея эта не нова и восходит к опытам Дзиги Вертова, Жана Эпштейна и других ранних практиков и теоретиков кино. Увлекшееся в последние десятилетия антропоцентрическими подходами, киноведение перестало учитывать уникальную природу кинематографа, сводя его к тексту, ...
Added: May 19, 2026
Goltseva Y., Tsokolaeva Z., Beloglazova I. et al., Stem Cell Research and Therapy 2026 Vol. 17 No. 1
Background Cardiac fibrosis represents a significant health burden, with endothelial dysfunction and damaged
perivascular microenvironment increasingly recognized as key contributors to fibrotic remodeling. The urokinase
plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR), a critical component of the urokinase system, plays a pivotal role in vascular
remodeling and fibrosis. While prior evidence indicates that uPAR deficiency leads to microvascular dysfunction and
perivascular fibrosis, ...
Added: May 19, 2026
Zakharov A., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2026 № 2 С. 3–23
This article investigates the health-related lifestyles of Russian youth. Utilizing longitudinal data from the «Trajectories in Education and Profession» study (N = 3398, 2022), a latent class analysis was conducted, identifying three distinct classes of young people (mean age: 26): those adhering to a healthy lifestyle, those prone to unhealthy habits, and those passive about ...
Added: May 19, 2026
Пильнов И. А., История философии 2024 Т. 29 № 2 С. 39–50
This article attempts a comparative analysis of the problems of revolution and socialism in the philosophical work of Nikolai Berdyaev and Boris Yakovenko. The author aims to compare the key philosophical and political concepts of the two thinkers to identify the commonalities and differences in their views. The subject of consideration are the works of ...
Added: May 18, 2026
Девятников В. Ю., Социология власти 2025 Т. 37 № 4 С. 163–185
Redistricting is an important tool of political struggle, distinguished
by several features that set it apart from other methods of creating a non-competitive electoral advantage: secrecy and non-provocativeness. These characteristics have led to significant scholarly attention, primarily focused on the
political consequences of redistricting. However, the administrative and legal
aspects of redistricting remain less studied, which may limit ...
Added: May 18, 2026
Bobrova A., Poddiakov A., Aksiotis V., Вопросы психологии 2025 № 4 С. 96–106
In psychology, people's assessment of conditional statements "if--then", agreement and disagreement with them is actively studied. This assessment of people who are not specialists in the field of logic often differs greatly from its requirements, especially if the reality observed by a person to one degree or another contradicts a formally correct logical conclusion. In ...
Added: May 17, 2026
Mamchenkov D. V., Malyutina, AD (Malyutina, Anna D.), Studia Philosophica Kantiana 2022 No. 1 P. 45–55
The article examines various historical and philosophical premises
of radical constructivism. The three most appropriate philosophical concepts
for this role are: ancient skepticism, subjective idealism, and Kantian transcendental
idealism. It is shown that radical constructivism cannot be attributed
to ancient skepticism or subjective idealism. It is transcendental idealism
that should be considered as the main forerunner of this concept. The ...
Added: May 17, 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
Girinsky A., Вестник Томского государственного университета 2026 № 525 С. 67–73
В данной статье анализируются работы православного богослова и религиозного публициста прот. А. Шмемана, посвященные проблеме секуляризации в обществе модерна. Реконструируется контекст рассуждений Шмемана, связанный с развитием в послевоенное время в США и Европе идей теории модернизации и «секулярной теологии». Отмечается оригинальность трактовки Шмеманом сущности секуляризации как элиминации «сакраментальности богослужения», критически анализируются выводы Шмемана, связанные с ...
Added: May 16, 2026
Mkrtchyan N. V., Regional Research of Russia 2026 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 170–181
The aim of the study is to assess the provision of all settlements in four regions of the Near North of Russia (Vologda, Kostroma, Kirov, and Yaroslavl oblasts) with social infrastructure institutions and to analyze whether the migration balance of settlements is associated with different provision of these institutions. The study was conducted using data ...
Added: May 16, 2026
Паникар М. М., Polar Journal 2026
The article attempts to explore the process of formation of a new sphere of relations between the USSR and the countries of the Arctic region in the period from 1986 to 1990. The April Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee in 1985 laid the groundwork for a profound transformation in both the domestic and ...
Added: May 15, 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
Morozov D., Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 1: Богословие. Философия. Религиоведение 2026 № 124 С. 45–58
The article analyzes the concept of “aesthetic humanism” (AH) presented in the works of V. V. Zenkovsky. Within his original conception, AH is regarded as the fundamental principle of Russian secularism. The article focuses on Zenkovky’s historical-philosophical dialectic, the key to which is the overcoming of AH — a “spiritual malady” of Western origin that ...
Added: May 14, 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
Poplavskaya A., Социологическое обозрение 2026 № 1 С. 85–111
One of the acute issues of contemporary Russian reality is understanding the youth and their ambivalent attitude to work. Based on a series of empirical studies examining Russian university students` work values, the author concludes that the main dilemma of future professionals lies in the choice between personally beneficial (presumably highly paid and prestigious) and ...
Added: March 24, 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
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
Dolgov A., Социальные и гуманитарные науки. Отечественная и зарубежная литература. Серия 11: Социология 2025 № 3 С. 13–53
The paper provides an overview of a special issue of the Journal of Classical Sociology (2024, N 4) devoted to the impact of World War I on the life trajectories and intellectual legacy of the classics of sociology. It shows how Georg Simmel, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Werner Sombart, Ferdinand Tönnies, W.E.B. Du Bois, George ...
Added: January 16, 2026
Bankovskaya S., Alexander F. F., Filippov A. F., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.
This comprehensive Encyclopedia serves as an authoritative reference on global postwar social theory. It examines how the field has responded to critiques of occidental and colonial bias and provides a state of the art which is both original and global in its approach and coverage.
Compiled by expert authors, the Encyclopedia outlines different regional strands of ...
Added: January 9, 2026
Giri A. K., Uldanov A., Parkhomenko S. et al., , in: Russian Social Thought in the 19th Century.: India: Routledge, 2025. P. 1–8.
There is an opinion that Russian social theory is secondary to the European one and lacks originality. According to Vvedenskiy, such opinions have sometimes led to radical statements that Russians by nature were not disposed to: “...as if they by nature were too sober and straightforward about things to venture into philosophical abstractions” (Vvedenskiy, 1898, ...
Added: December 27, 2025
, in: Russian Social Thought in the 19th Century.: India: Routledge, 2025. P. 1–8.
There is an opinion that Russian social theory is secondary to the European one and lacks originality. According to Vvedenskiy, such opinions have sometimes led to radical statements that Russians by nature were not disposed to: “...as if they by nature were too sober and straightforward about things to venture into philosophical abstractions” (Vvedenskiy, 1898, ...
Added: December 27, 2025
India: Routledge, 2025.
Russian Social Thought in the 19th Century is a comprehensive introduction to pre-Soviet Russian social theory, tracing its evolution through the works of influential thinkers such as Pyotr Chaadaev, Leo Mechnikov, Mikhail Bakunin, Pyotr Kropotkin, and Pavel Lilienfeld. This pioneering text weaves together a chronological narrative that highlights the overlapping contributions of these intellectuals, rediscovering the ...
Added: December 27, 2025
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, ...
Added: December 23, 2025
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