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Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Higher Education. 2nd edition
Routledge, 2022.
Under the general editorship: J. Côté, S. Pickard
Higher education has come under increasing public scrutiny in recent years, assailed with demands for greater efficiency, accountability, cost reduction, and, above all, job training. Drawing upon examples from across the world, with an emphasis on Anglo-American higher-education systems, this handbook employs sociological approaches to address these pressing concerns. The second edition is thoroughly updated and adds several new chapters to shed further light on the transformations wrought by the interrelated processes of massification, vocationalization, and marketization that have swept through universities in the wake of neoliberal reforms introduced by governments since the 1980s.
The handbook explores recent developments in higher-education systems and policy as well as the everyday experiences of students and staff and ongoing problems of inequality and diversity within universities. In doing so, the chapters address a number of current issues concerning the legitimacy of higher-educational credentials, from the continuing debate regarding traditional pedagogies and the role of universities in social class reproduction to more recent concerns about standards in mass systems.
Collectively, this handbook demonstrates that the sociology of higher education has the potential to play a leadership role in improving the myriad higher-education systems around the world that are now part of an interrelated set of subsystems, replete with both persistent problems and promising prospects. This book is therefore necessary reading for a variety of stakeholders within academia as well as professionals and policy-makers interested in understanding higher education and the acute challenges it faces.
Chapters
Smolentseva A., , in: Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Higher Education. 2nd edition.: Routledge, 2022.
In Russian higher education, a mix of ideas and reforms implanted into the specific national context and culture has generated a distinctive system. Although inspired by European university model, from the very beginning the system was maintained with an orientation to the state’s needs, comprehensive governmental control and a bias towards teaching rather than research. ...
Added: February 7, 2022
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Dvoinin A., Развитие личности 2025 № Спецвыпуск С. 17–20
The article outlines A.M. Dvoinin’s personal reminiscences of his teacher, the prominent psychologist Valeria Sergeevna Mukhina ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Katchanov Y. L., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 36–61
В статье предлагается теоретическая рамка анализа научной элиты, исходящая из понимания производства знания как динамической структуры, формируемой внутренними противоречиями. Научная элита рассматривается не как совокупность выдающихся исследователей, а как структурный эффект производства знания — позиция в пространстве науки, концентрирующая максимальный объем научного капитала и задающая смысловой горизонт для всех агентов. Пространство науки трактуется как многомерное ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Khestanov R., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 12–35
The article proposes a syntagmatic analysis of three historically constituted regimes for working with the future: linear determination, statistical branching, and loop reconfiguration. A syntagm is understood as an event-operation that exists only in its performance and simultaneously binds material, semiotic, and pragmatic registers. The analysis proceeds not as an intellectual history but as an ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Nazarova A. G., Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации 2026 № 3(72) С. 87–104
The article explores how results of constructing aggregate national transfer accounts’ (NTA) estimates can be used for macroeconomic analysis and forecasts of current transfers in home economy. It presents the findings of the author’s study of their transfer modules over retrospective period of more than 10 years. The emphasis in the paper is focused on ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Patarakin Y., Kutuzov A., Искусственные общества 2026 Т. 21 № 3 Статья 10
This paper presents STiMUS (Stigmergy and Mutualism in Socio-Technical Systems), an agent-based model implemented in NetLogo 7.0. The model formalises two complementary coordination mechanisms in digital project teams. The first is stigmergy: contributor agents select shared artefacts to work on by following traces left by previous editors, without explicit communication. The second is mutualism: artefacts ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Mersiyanova I. V., Брюхно А. С., Pallium: паллиативная и хосписная помощь (Российская Федерация) 2026 Т. 1 № 30 С. 26–33
The aim of this study is to identify key features of public perceptions of palliative care, including levels of awareness, attitudes toward the possibility of receiving palliative care, experiences of interaction with the palliative care system, as well as perceptions of the roles of various institutional actors involved in its provision. The empirical basis of ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Grigoreva M., Balakina Y. V., Научный результат. Серия: Социальные и гуманитарные исследования 2026 Т. 12 № 3 С. 100–112
In the context of intense international migration and increasing ethnocultural diversity, the integration of migrants has become an important issue for public policy. While existing research primarily focuses on the socio-economic and legal dimensions of integration, less attention has been paid to the mechanisms through which migrants develop a sense of belonging to the host ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Shvetsova E., Журнал институциональных исследований 2026 Т. 18 № 3 С. 116–130
This article analyzes the philanthropic activity of Russian billionaires as a mechanism for the
institutional legitimization of capital, aimed at its preservation and the transformation of economic
capital into symbolic capital. The empirical analysis is based on a self-contained database containing
information from public sources on the philanthropic activity of 146 Russian billionaires included in
the 2025 Forbes list, ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Akhmedjanova D., М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2026.
Восемнадцатый выпуск серии учебно-методических пособий «Подготовка профессионалов для нового образования» посвящен преподаванию курса по метакогнитивной регуляции обучения на магистерской программе «Педагогическое образование» Института образования НИУ ВШЭ. Пособие систематизирует современные знания о природе, диагностике и развитии саморегуляции в образовании и призвано восполнить дефицит качественных русскоязычных публикаций, интегрирующих достижения отечественной научной школы и передовые международные исследования. Пособие ...
Added: September 29, 2026
Гарифулина Э. Ш., Новикова С., Telitsyna A., Социальные науки и детство 2026 Т. 7 № 1 С. 26–43
Context and relevance. Modern childhood is undergoing large-scale institutional and social transformations. Despite a substantial body of research, there remains a lack of comprehensive empirical studies that juxtapose the macro-level of institutional change with the micro-level of subjective experiences of children and parents. Objective. This study draws on an institutional approach to the analysis of ...
Added: September 29, 2026
«А все-таки...»: эффективность уточняющих вопросов для снижения доли неответов на вопросы о финансах
Shmeleva E., Lebedev D., Брагина Е. В., Социологический журнал 2026 Т. 32 № 3 С. 9–29
A high proportion of non-substantive responses to questions about income and expenditures compromises data quality, limits the generalizability of findings, and can lead to sampling bias. The objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of using follow-up questions to improve the quality of responses to financial questions. The study is based on data ...
Added: September 29, 2026
Butovskaya M., Буркова В. Н., Этнография 2026 Т. 1 № 31 С. 50–79
Respect for and care for older relatives continue to be among the key moral norms in both traditional pre-state societies of farmers and cattle breeders and in societies with a centralized state structure. Scholarly interest in moral norms governing attitudes toward elders across cultures has led to diverse interpretations of filial piety. The aim of ...
Added: September 28, 2026
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
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
Smolentseva A., Studies in Higher Education 2023 Vol. 48 No. 1 P. 232–247
Drawing on various disciplinary and scholarly approaches to the multiple roles of higher education in society, this paper offers a new conceptualisation of the non-economic contributions of higher education. The conceptual model identifies two basic dimensions in higher education’s contributions to society. The first, axiological dimension pertains to the objects of higher education: what higher ...
Added: October 13, 2022
Smolentseva A., , in: Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Higher Education. 2nd edition.: Routledge, 2022.
In Russian higher education, a mix of ideas and reforms implanted into the specific national context and culture has generated a distinctive system. Although inspired by European university model, from the very beginning the system was maintained with an orientation to the state’s needs, comprehensive governmental control and a bias towards teaching rather than research. ...
Added: February 7, 2022
Smolentseva A., , in: Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions.: Dordrecht: Springer, 2018. P. 1–8.
The entry provides an overview of the development of the multidiscilinary field of higher education research in Russia. In Soviet period, research on higher education has been developing along with the division of research in the country – between the Academy of Sciences, higher education institutions, and sectoral research under the corresponding ministries. However, current ...
Added: November 13, 2018
Smolentseva A., , in: High Participation Systems of Higher Education.: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Ch. 7 P. 184–200.
The chapter focuses on the ultimate question of the project: what will change in a society when a majority of the age group will have higher education. Seeking for approaches to understand the future role of higher education in the HPS societies the chapter reviews theories and concepts developed in two disciplinary traditions: social sciences ...
Added: June 25, 2018
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Higher Education has become a central institution of society, building individual knowledge, skills, agency, and relational social networks at unprecedented depth and scale. Within a generation there has been an extraordinary global expansion of Higher Education, in every region in all but the poorest countries, outstripping economic growth and deriving primarily from familial aspirations for ...
Added: October 17, 2016
Smolentseva A., , in: Handbook of the Sociology of Higher Education.: Routledge, 2016. P. 241–250.
The chapter provides an analysis of the Russian system of higher education in a comparative perspective, including massification and social inequality issues. ...
Added: October 12, 2016
Routledge, 2016.
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This is the first handbook to cover the sociological approaches to higher education. It is timely because of global expansions of mass higher educational systems, especially as these systems come under scrutiny by a variety of stakeholders. Questions are being raised about the value of traditional pedagogies along with calls for efficiency, ...
Added: October 12, 2016
Yanbarisova D., Pavlenko E., Higher Education in Russia and Beyond 2015 No. 3 P. 13–14
Combining job and studies is quite often the case both in Russia and in Europe. But today researchers all over the world seek to explain the increase in the number of working students and in hours they spend working. In Russia, the situation is exacerbated by a decreasing value of formal education for employers, which ...
Added: May 27, 2015
Sokolov M. M., Кнорре А. В., Safonova M., Университетское управление: практика и анализ 2014 Т. 90 № 2 С. 6–25
The article starts with reviewing of major sociological approaches to higher education (education as accumulation of professional capital, education as class distinction, education as age moratorium, etc.). We then derive hypotheses from each of the theories on how the process of choosing between specialties is organized. Each of the models of student choice is then ...
Added: August 13, 2014