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The Importance of Gossip Across Societies: Correlations with Institutionalization
Cross-Cultural Research. 2015. Vol. 49. No. 3. P. 297–314.
Demerath L., Korotayev A.
This article presents a cross-cultural analysis that explores the relationship between the importance of gossip and institutionalization. It is reasoned that as institutionalization increases, so does the difficulty of attaining direct information about events and people that would be consequential for any given individual. As a result, gossip should increase with institutionalization, and complexity generally. This general hypothesis is tested against data from a sample of recent and historical societies. The analysis finds support for the hypothesis and also explores the relationship between gossip and gender autonomy. The results are discussed in terms of understanding gossip as a strategy for attaining information when direct information gathering is inhibited by one’s social structural circumstances. The article closes with a discussion of possible implications for contemporary societies.
Гацковская В. А., Курбатов Д. М., Международная аналитика 2025 № 16(4) С. 158–170
The article analyzes the political discourse (including expert and media discourse) in post-socialist
Central and Eastern European countries regarding the 2024 Russian presidential election.
The authors consider the discourse on Russian electoral processes as a tool for constructing
European identity based on the “friend-foe” divide. The study aims to identify the influence of
domestic political processes in Russia on ...
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Ovcharenko M., / Series arXiv "math". 2026.
We introduce an explicit class of tempered Laurent polynomials in the sense of Villegas and Doran--Kerr in n⩽4 variables including all Landau--Ginzburg models for smooth Fano threefolds with very ample anticanonical class. We check that it contains Landau--Ginzburg models for various Fano fourfolds which are complete intersections in smooth toric varieties and Grassmannians of planes, ...
Added: April 30, 2026
Zhu Z., Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy 2025 Vol. 19 No. 4 P. 914–932
Purpose
This paper aims to offer a systematic examination of the core challenges and opportunities associated with the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven automation via autonomous vehicles (AVs) in urban governance (UG), and to explore their implications for ethical AI governance.
Design/methodology/approach
This conceptual analytical framework is grounded in a socio-technical structure for ethical AI governance, complemented by ...
Added: April 30, 2026
Simonova O. A., Метаморфозис 2026 Vol. 10 No. 3 P. 103–116
This article presents a paper delivered at the 5th International Sociological Association Forum held in July 2025 in Rabat, Morocco, during the session “The Affective and Emotional Dimensions of Alienation: Modern Societies, Agents, Structures, and Processes” of Research Committee No. 36 “Theory and Research on Alienation”. The article examines emotional labor as a sociological object ...
Added: April 28, 2026
Derkacheva A., Sakirkina M., Kraev G. et al., /. 2026.
Comprehensive data on natural hazards and their consequences are crucial for effective for risk assessment, adaptation planning, and emergency response. However, many countries face challenges with fragmented, inconsistent, and inaccessible data, particularly regarding local-scale events. To address this data gap in Russia, we developed an end-to-end processing pipeline that scrapes news from various online sources, ...
Added: April 28, 2026
Энчилл Г. Л., Iarskaia-Smirnova E. R., Asia and Africa today 2026 No. 3 P. 57–65
This qualitative study examines barriers to implementing gender equality laws in rural Ghana that
occur despite progressive constitutional provisions. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 15 experts from
NGOs, government, and academia, the analysis applies Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic theory of
structure, culture, and agency. Structural barriers include institutional underfunding and weak enforcement
mechanisms. Cultural conditioning manifests in entrenched norms such ...
Added: April 27, 2026
Ermolin I., Suvorkov P., Conservation Biology 2026 No. e70300 P. 1–10
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing driven by artisanal small-scale fisheries is a critical threat to global biodiversity and is exemplified by the commercial extinction of Caspian sturgeons (Acipenser and Huso). A key knowledge gap persists regarding the scale and behavioral dynamics of these operations.We tested the hypothesis that persistent high-volume sturgeon poaching is sustained ...
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М.: ИНИОН РАН, 2026.
В сборник включены статьи и фрагменты классических работ Р.Э. Парка, У.А. Томаса, Э.У. Бёрджесса, Р. Маккензи, Э. Фэриса, Л. Вирта, Э.Ч. Хьюза и других представителей Чикагской школы социологии. Второе издание значительно расширено по сравнению с предыдущим. Часть переводов публикуется в новой редакции, некоторые тексты переведены на русский язык впервые.
Во второй том включены тексты, представляющие эмпирическую классику Чикагской школы.
Для социологов, философов, ...
Added: April 23, 2026
Ankudinov I., Социология: методология, методы, математическое моделирование 2025 № 61 С. 165–203
The changing political mood of Russians is a constant subject of interest for sociological agencies. With the development of the Internet, conventional questionnaire research began to be supplemented by online surveys and, despite some skepticism, by social media mining. This article attempts to adjust an accidental web-sample so as to bring its estimates closer to ...
Added: April 22, 2026
Калинин Н. А., Миссия конфессий 2025 Т. 14 № 84 С. 120–125
The article analyzes the phenomenon of inclusivity in social theatre. The theoret- ical foundations of inclusion and social theatre are examined, highlighting the role of theatrical practices in the social integration of individuals with disabilities. The author reviews Russian and international case studies, demonstrating the success and diversity of inclusive theatre projects, and describes the ...
Added: April 22, 2026
Котельников А. В., Этнографическое обозрение 2025 № 6 С. 212–233
The article presents research of one of about two dozen (known to the author) St. Petersburg communes based on living together in large apartments. The commune is considered by the concepts of scale by Marilyn Strathern and the concept of nonscalability by Anna Tsing. Scaling refers to the homogenization of practices and actors by integrating ...
Added: April 22, 2026
Калинин Н. А., Миссия конфессий 2025 Т. 14 № 84 С. 102–105
The article examines the main theoretical aspects of the formation of an inclusive socio-cultural environment as a necessary condition for the full development and participation in social life of people with disabilities. The definition of the concept of “inclusive socio-cultural environment” is given, the prerequisites for its emergence and the reasons for the need to ...
Added: April 22, 2026
Мальков М. Д., Социологические исследования 2026 № 2 С. 62–73
We problematize the foundations of a special type of social order – the interaction order – as conceptualized by sociologist Erving Goffman. The interaction oreder that unfolds in a social situation of physical co-presence may have different foundations: it may be self-sustaining, autonomous and separate from other orders, grounded in the cognitive resources of the ...
Added: April 22, 2026
Qin X., Deng Y., Shchur L. et al., / Series arXiv "math". 2026. No. 2603.02962.
We perform a Monte Carlo analysis of the Ising model on many three-dimensional lattices. By means of finite-size scaling we obtain the critical points and determine the scaling dimensions. As expected, the critical exponents agree with the three-dimensional Ising universality class for all models. The irrelevant field, as revealed by the correction-to-scaling amplitudes, appears to ...
Added: April 20, 2026
Pilé I., Deng Y., Shchur L., / Series arXiv "math". 2026. No. 2604.10254.
We investigate the spatial overlap of successive spin configurations in Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations using the local Metropolis algorithm and the Svendsen-Wang and Wolff cluster algorithms. We examine the dynamics of these algorithms for two models in different universality classes: the Ising model and the Potts model with three components. The overlap of two ...
Added: April 20, 2026
Zlotnik Alexander, / Series arXiv "math". 2026. No. 2602.03481v1.
We deal with the global in time weak solutions to the 1D compressible Navier-Stokes system of equations for large discontinuous initial data and nonhomogeneous boundary conditions of three standard types. We prove the Lipschitz-type continuous dependence of the solution $(\eta,u,\theta)$, in a norm slightly stronger than $L^{2,\infty}(Q)\times L^2(Q)\times L^2(Q)$, on the initial data $(\eta^0,u^0,e^0)$ in a ...
Added: April 18, 2026
Karpenko I., Эпистемология и философия науки 2026 Т. 63 № 1 С. 141–158
The article analyzes the principal interpretations of quantum mechanics from the standpoint of an original conception of informational realism. It is shown that these interpretations can be unified within an informational ontology in which fundamental status is accorded to informational invariants of quantum constraints that are common to all empirically equivalent interpretations of quantum mechanics. ...
Added: April 18, 2026
Bayramyan R., Chulyukin K. S., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Психология и педагогика 2025 Т. 22 № 3 С. 593–613
Contemporary research increasingly highlights the need to expand the age boundaries of authenticity studies. The foundational bases of authentic thinking and the manifestation of authentic behavior are laid precisely in childhood. Schoolchildren accept and express their authenticity, among other factors, depending on the socio-cultural context. Within this framework, the value sphere gains particular significance, as ...
Added: April 14, 2026
Ustyuzhanin V., / Series Econometrics "arxiv". 2026.
This paper proposes Covariate-Balanced Weighted Stacked Difference-in-Differences (CBWSDID), a design-based extension of weighted stacked DID for settings in which untreated trends may be conditionally rather than unconditionally parallel. The estimator separates within-subexperiment design adjustment from across-subexperiment aggregation: matching or weighting improves treated-control comparability within each stacked subexperiment, while the corrective stacked weights of Wing et ...
Added: April 3, 2026
Medvedev V., / Series arXiv "math". 2026.
We investigate the interplay between the dimension of the space of static potentials and the geometric and topological structure of the underlying static three-manifold. A partial classification of boundaryless static manifolds is obtained in terms of this dimension. We also treat the case of static manifolds with boundary. In particular, we prove that if a ...
Added: April 3, 2026
Gabdullin N., Androsov I., / Series Computer Science "arxiv.org". 2026.
Label prediction in neural networks (NNs) has O(n) complexity proportional to the number of classes. This holds true for classification using fully connected layers and cosine similarity with some set of class prototypes. In this paper we show that if NN latent space (LS) geometry is known and possesses specific properties, label prediction complexity can ...
Added: April 2, 2026
Моторов Д. А., Христианское чтение 2025 № 3 С. 179–192
The study examines biographical aspects of the work of the Austrian- Mexican philosopher and Catholic theologian Ivan Illich in conjunction with his ideas of criticism of the modern era. Contrary to many authors believing the New Age is a stage in the development of mankind, within which the final separation of the secular and the ...
Added: March 31, 2026
Bulchenko N. V., INTERaction. INTERview. INTERpretation 2026 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 127–145
This article uses a case study of the first and only female railway engineer in the large northern region of contemporary Russia to examine informal gender discrimination in male-dominated industries. Despite the abolition of legal prohibitions in 2021, women remain severely underrepresented in locomotive crews due to informal barriers. Four in-depth interviews were conducted during ...
Added: March 26, 2026
Budnik R., Право. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2026 Т. 19 № 1 С. 81–111
The neural network breakthrough in the development of technologies for producing information objects based on the scientific and artistic heritage of mankind has intensified the discussion about what AI generated products are. Whether they can legitimately be considered protected results of creative activity, and who owns the copyright to them. The problem is aggravated by ...
Added: March 25, 2026