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Social Work in Contemporary Russia. Analysis of the Status of a Profession
Sociological Research. 2016. Vol. 55. No. 1. P. 16–30.
The article demonstrates the potential of a neo-Weberian approach to the study of professionals working in the field of social work. Based on materials obtained from a regional survey, we have been able to gather certain economic, status, and cultural characteristics of the profession and its interrelationships. The study showed that social work is characterized by a low income, a lack of prestige, and a relative degree of autonomy; the profession is also characterized by a limited sphere of influence, a predominance of institutional regulatory mechanisms, and informal mechanisms. Appeal to the normative-legal context of professionalization leads to the conclusion that practical competence prevails over analytical and managerial qualities for the majority of professionals in the field; however, the majority of these professionals are highly experienced in terms of the structure of social work.
Research target:
Sociology (including Demography and Anthropology
Language:
English
Sakevich V. I., Демографическое обозрение 2026 Т. 13 № 3 С. 4–28
The article analyzes modern legislation regarding artificial termination of pregnancy in countries around the world. Depending on the grounds on which abortion is permitted, five groups of countries are distinguished. Estimates have shown that about 60% of women of reproductive age live in countries with liberal legislation, where abortion is allowed at the request of ...
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Lungu M. M., Davitadze A., Frontiers in Public Health 2026 Vol. 14 Article 1919768
Malaria control in Malawi relies primarily on long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS), but transmission remains heterogeneous across districts. Previous research indicates that community-based environmental management strategies, such as routine drainage maintenance, vegetation removal, and effective household waste disposal, may reduce environmental conditions conducive to malaria vector proliferation. This study investigated the ...
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Горюнов И. О., Dorofeeva Z., Социологический журнал 2026 Т. 32 № 3 С. 55–77
В статье анализируются динамика и особенности социально-экономического статуса интернет-пользователей в России в период с 2003 по 2024 г. на основе данных РМЭЗ НИУ ВШЭ. Цель исследования — оценка, в какой степени конкретные показатели социально-экономического статуса объясняют использование Интернета индивидом, а также того, как эта взаимосвязь менялась за рассматриваемый период. Для целей исследования интернет-пользователи были разделены ...
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Katchanov Y. L., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 36–61
The paper proposes a theoretical framework for analyzing the scientific elite, conceptualizing knowledge production as a dynamic structure shaped by internal contradictions. The scientific elite is understood not as a collection of outstanding researchers, but as a structural effect of knowledge production — a position within the scientific space that concentrates the maximum volume of ...
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Radaev V., Социологический журнал 2026 Т. 32 № 3 С. 78–107
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Radaev V., Форсайт 2026 Т. 20 № 3 Статья 31440
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В качестве основного источника информации для анализа вовлеченности населения ...
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Kotelnikova Z., Radaev V., Sinyavskaya O., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2025 № 3(187) С. 3–12
На протяжении XX века происходило становление и развитие социологии потребления как самостоятельной отрасли со своими теоретическими основаниями и богатыми эмпирическими изысканиями. Сегодня нарастает потребность в пересмотре и обогащении многих сложившихся социологических подходов к анализу потребительского поведения в контексте новых глобальных вызовов.
Цель специальной рубрики журнала «Мониторинг общественного мнения: экономические и социальные перемены», представляемой авторами этой вводной ...
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Kuzminov Y., Ovcharova L., Radaev V., Вопросы экономики 2026 № 5 С. 5–16
This article introduces the special issue of the "Voprosy Ekonomiki" journal, which focuses on household economic behavior. The issue is based on the "Economic Behavior of Households" project, which has been implemented at the Higher School of Economics since 2023. The project consists of two components: a field component, which involves collecting sociological data, and ...
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Veselova L. S., Азия и Африка сегодня 2026 № 9 С. 38–48
The article examines the consumer practices of China’s middle class in the context of the transformation of Confucian values under the influence of market reforms, urbanization, the expansion of the domestic market, and the state ideology of contemporary China. The focus is on how traditional norms of family responsibility retain their normative significance while being ...
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Баранов А. И., Социологические исследования 2026 № 9 С. 69–80
This paper examines the implications of George Herbert Mead’s conception of political institutions in the context of the problem of social change. The problem lies in how the modern governmental institution combines stability and transformative capacity. Mead’s concept of time provides a general framework for understanding change, expressed in sociality as a phase of adjustment. ...
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Kishenin P., Атаманенко (Зинина) А. И., Демографическое обозрение 2026 Т. 13 № 3 С. 29–80
This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of key instruments of Russia’s pronatalist demographic policy—specifically, the federal maternity capital program and the RUB 450,000 subsidy for partial repayment of mortgage debt—over the period 2007–2023. The central research challenge is to disentangle short-term shifts in the timing of births from long-term structural changes in ...
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Trotsuk I., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 351–385
For the professional (in social sciences or humanities) reader David Graeber is a somewhat controversial figure. On the one hand, he is a remarkably successful foreign author in Russia: all his major books have been published in Russian, although his texts and reactions to them have been rather modestly represented in scientific journals. On the ...
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Aleskerov F. T., Вайншток А. П., Делахова А. М. et al., Информационные процессы 2026 Т. 26 № 3 С. 895–913
The development and effective management of territorial entities are priority issues for all states, particularly in the context of the digital transformation of public administration. Over the past decade, the integration of information technologies into municipal and regional planning has significantly altered approaches to strategic development, service delivery, and public engagement. This paper describes the ...
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Rozhdestvenskaya E., Abramov R., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2026 Т. 29 № 3 С. 244–274
The article presents an experimental study at the intersection of social anthropology and qualitative sociology. The empirical basis is a corpus of 18 short biographical sketches of collective farm peasant women from the village of Vysheley, Penza Region, created at the end of the Soviet period by school local historians and discovered by one of the authors during a ...
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Aleskerov F. T., Chaika E., Дерендяев А. Б. et al., Procedia Computer Science 2026 No. 287 P. 590–595
Under conditions of dynamic socio-economic changes, effective planning and decision-making are key factors in ensuring a high quality of life for the population in territories. This paper presents a decision support system for territorial administrations for the development and implementation of sustainable development strategies, using one of the regions of the Russian Federation – the ...
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Gajiyev A., Deviatko I. F., Conflict Resolution Quarterly 2026
This paper explores the factors influencing ordinary judgments of justice in warfare, drawing primarily on normative theories of just war. By examining the alignment between the philosophical principles of just war and ordinary normative judgments, we explore the extent to which lay moral evaluations of war are shaped by the principles articulated in normative just ...
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Nefedova A., Shmatko N., Antonova E., Социологические исследования 2026 № 9 С. 52–69
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Kuzminov Y., Kruchinskaia E., Koshel A. et al., М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2026.
В научном докладе цифровые платформы впервые рассмотрены не как частный сегмент цифрового рынка, а как новый институциональный механизм организации экономики. В одной исследовательской рамке соединены экономика, право, социология, компьютерные науки, информационная безопасность, данные бизнеса и регуляторная практика — все то, что позволяет взглянуть на платформы как на институт со своими правилами игры. Особую ценность работе ...
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Post-Soviet Eurasia is one of the world's most geopolitically consequential and rapidly transforming regions. Developments across it increasingly reshape political, economic and social relations far beyond its borders. Understanding these dynamics is therefore both intellectually urgent and analytically demanding, requiring an interdisciplinary approach capable of moving beyond established categories and fragmented national perspectives.
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М.: Национальный исследовательский университет "Высшая школа экономики", 2026.
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Вебер М., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 318–353
In the concluding part of the Second Anti-Critique (1910), Max Weber summarizes the substantive
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Chebotarev V., Andreyuk D., Elizarova Anastasiya et al., Procedia Computer Science 2022 Vol. 213 No. C P. 596–601
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Nikulina Y., Jamali Jaghdani T., Götz L. et al., / Series "Working Papers". 2026.
The impact of state subsidies on Russia's post-Soviet dairy output remains controversial; this study provides an empirical analysis of that relationship. Using an unbalanced panel dataset of 123 dairy enterprises in the Leningrad Region spanning the period from 2010 to 2023, we employ stochastic frontier analysis to assess these relationships. The results indicate that subsidies ...
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Micah Y.B. Zing, Alisa R. Shishkina, Международная аналитика 2026 Vol. 2 No. 17 P. 126–138
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