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Фриланс — свобода «от» или «для»? Рецензия на книгу: Стребков Д.О., Шевчук А.В. Что мы знаем о фрилансерах? Социология свободной занятости. М.: Изд. дом Высшей школы экономики, 2022
Социологический журнал. 2023. Т. 29. № 2. С. 170–182.
The new book by Denis Strebkov and Andrey Shevchuk “What do we know about freelancers? The Sociology of Free Employment” (2022) is a summation of a unique, large-scale, more than a decade-long research project dedicated to understanding the phenomenon of online freelancing. The authors are at the origins of surveys of free employment agents in the country. They describe the history of the formation of the Russian-speaking remote work market, its main participants and the laws of functioning, and also conduct a deep analysis of the origin, spread and transformation of remote self-employment practices and the composition of workers in this work sphere. Freelancers are defined by the authors of the monograph as representatives of intellectual and creative work, and freelancing itself is characterized as a form of embodiment of freedom in the labor market. The title of the book suggests a new area of research - the sociology of free employment. The review considers the merits of the monograph, and also analyzes questions about whether we can call independent professionals really free or there are some nuances here.
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Keywords: самозанятостьорганизация трудаwork autonomyтрудовая автономияфрилансfreelanceself-employmentwork arrangements
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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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Chistikov M., Makarov I. A., Вестник международных организаций: образование, наука, новая экономика 2026 Т. 21 № 3
As the negative socio-economic consequences of climate change increase, attention to adaptation issues is growing worldwide. Currently, most of the adaptation measures are reactive and not very large-scale. The more ambitious approach to climate change adaptation is evident in the idea of "transformational adaptation," which is gaining growing interest in both academic discussions and international ...
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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
This article analyzes the transformation of professional competencies of researchers in the context of growing interdisciplinarity and the digitalization of science. The aim of the study is to identify the structural gap between the normative expectations of the scientific community and the actual outcomes of the research personnel training system in Russia. The theoretical framework ...
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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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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
findings of his own contributions to the debate with the historian Felix Rachfahl. In doing so, he uses the response to his relentless critic as an opportunity to articulate once again, in an explicit manner and for both his own benefit and that of the ...
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Книга посвящена острейшим процессам современности – потенциалу БРИКС и стран-партнеров в трансформирующемся мире. Исследование потенциала стран БРИКС чрезвычайно актуально по ряду причин, связанных с глобальными экономическими, геополитическими и технологическими изменениями. Мировое сообщество вступило в новую фазу глобальной трансформации. Изменение геополитической конфигурации связано с формированием новых альянсов и перераспределением влияния в мировом сообществе. Мир постепенно отказывается ...
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Издательство Университета им. Ким Ир Сена, 2026.
This collection of scholarly articles includes works by researchers from the DPRK, Russia, and China devoted to philosophy, economics, and law. The articles were prepared to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Kim Il Sung University. ...
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Polarization of opinions in the group: a modeling algorithm considering the dynamics of social bonds
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The dynamics of opinion in a group are of interest for a number of practical purposes. In particular, consensus helps and polarization of opinions hinders cohesive teamwork. Existing approaches for modeling opinion dynamics mostly do not take into account the dynamism of social relations in a group. This paper proposes an algorithm and a program ...
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Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 12: Социология 2025 Vol. 18 No. 4 P. 494–505
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Social reality is undergoing rapid transformations, giving rise to new challenges for both social theory and practice. One of these much-discussed challenges is the so-called replicability crisis, a notion that describes the failure of the social sciences and humanities to verify established research findings with new empirical investigations. In the related debates, it is argued ...
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Sorokin P., Социологические исследования 2026 Т. 6 № 6 С. 145–147
Статья предлагает обзор междисциплинарной дискуссии, которая состоялась на секции «Будущее наук о человеке» в рамках XVI международной Грушинской социологической конференции и была посвящена перспективам выработки междисциплинарного взгляда на трансформации социально-гуманитарного знания в условиях современных кризисов и контурам возможного образа науки будущего, включая место в ней отдельных дисциплин. Это дискуссия может иметь особое значение для социологического ...
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Petrovskaya N., США и Канада: экономика, политика, культура 2026 № 3 С. 30–45
Гиг-экономика представляет собой динамично развивающийся сектор американского рынка труда, опосредованный цифровыми платформами, предлагающими краткосрочные, гибкие и зачастую нестабильные формы занятости. За последние десятилетия она стала важным структурным элементом американской экономики, охватывая миллионы работников в сферах логистики, фриланса, ухода, образования и цифрового контента. На основе американских источников анализируются масштабы гиг-занятости, её структура и стратификация населения по ...
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Alekseev D., Biryukova S., М.: НИУ ВШЭ, 2026.
The authors of this digest analyze differences in the composition of employees compared to the self-employed and individual entrepreneurs in Russia, and then in their employment patterns and satisfaction with work-life balance. They draw on data from the Household Economic Behavior survey, which covers the Russian population aged 18 and older and has been conducted ...
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Poplavskaya A., Социологический журнал 2025 Т. 31 № 2 С. 79–95
Flexible employment arrangements seem to be an attractive proposition in the modern labor market. Young people are often seen as focused on a flexible schedule, remote work and platform employment. At the same time, sociologists warn about the downsides of flexibility associated with the risks of precarity, deprofessionalization and decreased work efficiency. This study analyzes ...
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Larkina T., Социологическое обозрение 2025 Т. 24 № 1 С. 217–241
The transformational processes in working life are closely studied by social researchers. The sociologists of professions describe some of these processes in terms of occupational professionalization and deprofessionalization. Generally, the conceptualization of such terms begins with the definition of what a profession is; however, the sociologists of professions have not yet reached a consensus on ...
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Kuksa T., В кн.: Женский труд в России и в мире: история, традиции, особенности.: М.: ФГБОУ ВО "РЭУ им. Г.В. Плеханова", 2024. Гл. 2 С. 170–182.
The research article presents the reasons, conditions and stages for the emergence of new occupation in the Russian market of perinatal services and the separation of a professional group of self-employed women in the system of social stratification, when active members of the doula’s network are trying to gain public recognition and legislative legalization of ...
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Chernysheva N., Aleksanina K., Вопросы образования 2026 № 1 С. 214–240
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Karavay A., Социологические исследования 2024 № 5 С. 39–53
The aim of the study was to get an answer to the question of how different types of employment are related to Russians’ job satisfaction. Based on the data of the Higher School of Economics for 2022, it is shown that such a relationship can be traced quite clearly but has its own specifics in ...
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