Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.19181/socjour.2023.29.2.9
D. Litvintsev
This book by Lucy Series, largely based on the ideas of E. Goffmann’s total institutions and M. Foucault’s disciplinary mechanisms, is devoted to the problem of the elderly and people with disabilities in need of social care being deprived of freedom in the carceral and post-carceral era. However, unlike other reviewers, the author of this article sees a significant contribution of L. Series not so much to the development of the theory of social inclusion, based on historical and modern cases from the UK, but to the development of theoretical and methodological ideas about the home and the institutions that, unlike the home environment, form a space where freedom of choice is restricted. Essentially the book allows answering the question of what a house is as a socio-cultural unit and why it can be opposed to social institutions due to a rather rigid demarcation of their respective spaces.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.19181/socjour.2023.29.1.6
Marina Bogdanova, D. Rogozin
This interview is dedicated to Gennady Semyonovich Batygin, a scientist renowned by several generations of sociologists in Russia. His intellectual heritage consists of scientific articles, texts of editorial introductions to scientific monographs, a textbook on the methodology of sociological research, and Russia’s leading sociological journal. His intellectual heritage also includes a system of values, norms, rules for the production of sociological knowledge, which Batygin passed on to his students and colleagues in personal communication and was absorbed by his students. The interview cites a sociologist’s experience working under the guidance of G.S. Batygin in a sociological research project on Russian entrepreneurship in the 1990’s. It speaks about collaboration with Batygin in working on a PhD dissertation in sociology with him as the academic advisor. The influence of Batygin’s professional and moral authority over those who had the opportunity to study with him is discussed, as well as how the scientific ethos can be expressed in personalities and passed on to the next generation. The letters show Batygin’s unique style of interaction with graduate students. This style is distinguished by: collegiality in work, teaching a graduate student a specific set of rules, the norms of the sociological craft, involvement in open and at the same time responsible self-regulating professional activity.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.19181/socjour.2023.29.1.9
A. Sogomonov
The authors of the book investigate the practices of translation in the context of socio-cultural transformations in the early years of the Russian Empire. Europe and Russia in the Age of Enlightenment were radically different semiotic systems, so the interpreters of western philosophy and political literature sparked a sort of “cultural revolution” in terms of the transfer of ideas and concepts, the genesis of a new public language. Early Russian interpreters introduced the world of western thought and the languages of politics and social thinking to the elites and to the emerging civil society. And as such the corpus of Russian interpretations is a more eloquent reflection of intellectual evolution than the original writings of Russian thinkers of that time. And given the fact that in those times translations would always involve the inception of new lexical and semantic elements, the “laboratory of concepts” scientific metaphor used in the book to denote the intellectual origination of Russian modernity is absolutely justified.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.19181/socjour.2023.29.1.4
G. Zborovsky, P. Ambarova
The article is devoted to the problem of mobilizing the resource potential of the scientific and pedagogical community (SPC) in Russian universities, as well as the possibilities for its conceptualization. The authors substantiate the special role of this community as a driver in the development of specific universities and higher education as a whole. It is shown that the development of the SPC resource capacity and fine-tuning of its management is becoming one of the main factors in increasing the competitiveness of Russian higher education in difficult modern conditions. The development of ways to mobilize the resources of the community becomes the most important management problem in higher education. The aim of the article is to outline the scientific concept of resource mobilization of the SPC as the basis of university management practices. The objectives of the article are to consider such key issues as the sociological interpretation of the SPC in the context of its resources and the possibilities for mobilizing them, the interpretation of the concept and structure of SPC resources, as well as the essence and features of the mobilization approach towards managing SPC resource potential. The proposition is to reveal the essence of this approach through the concept of a management strategy aimed at finding, converting and focusing scarce community resources in the interests of national and university level programs for developing higher education. Being an object of the concept, the SPC is considered as a socio-professional, research and educational community. The subject would be the community’s traditional and current resource potential and managing its mobilization. As a condition for the effectiveness of such management, a new approach towards assessing the resource potential of the SPC is shown, which involves a comprehensive diagnosis of its objective and subjective aspects, as well as a deep differentiation of the structure of the resources of the SPC — socio-demographic, educational-pedagogical, scientific-qualification, publication, moral-ideological, symbolic, communicative, temporal and others.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.19181/socjour.2023.29.1.1
V. Zvonovsky, Alexander Khodykin
Strategies for adapting to traumatic events such as military conflicts are largely determined by a person’s outlook on such events. As such, research on the differences in the adaptation strategies of Russian supporters and opponents of the “special military operation” in the Ukraine (SMO) to the current situation provides a sociological description of how assessments of traumatic events impact the development of strategies for adapting to them. The purpose of this article is to describe the similarities and differences in adaptation strategies between supporters and opponents of the SMO. To achieve the research goals, the authors conducted 4 focus group studies with 6 participants each from the Samara region in April of 2022, recruited by gender, age and income level. The adaptation strategies of supporters and opponents of the SMO have a number of similarities and differences. Both supporters and opponents reconsidered their everyday practices according to the changes in their conditions of living. Both parties look into the future with caution, while trying to distract themselves from their experiences by focusing on work and leisure, and avoiding discussing topics related to the Ukraine in order to prevent conflicts. At the same time, supporters of the SMO weren’t as worried about the difficulties associated with it, since for them they are mainly economic in nature, while opponents, in addition to economic issues, deal with psychological problems due to them disagreeing with the decision to send troops to the Ukraine. The adaptation strategy of supporters boils down to them solving their own everyday problems, believing in the best and trusting the official point of view on the SMO, removing themselves from political matters and leaving them to the powers that be. Its opponents found it much more difficult to adapt to the current situation. Their main adaptation strategy lies in avoiding the following: political news, discussing the SMO, as well as supporters of the SMO. They feel powerless to do anything about the situation, therefore, just like the supporters of the “special operation”, they try to delve into solving their own everyday problems, but they do it not with hope for a better future and faith in the capabilities of their country, but with a pessimistic rejection of the situation, a lack of any sort of positive outlook on the future, awareness of the unfairness of the situation and a sense of disagreement with it.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.19181/socjour.2023.29.1.5
M. Maslovskiy
This article examines approaches towards analyzing the “entanglement” of modern societies in sociological and historical literature. Differences between G. Therborn’s and J. Arnason’s approaches are highlighted and Arnason’s perspective on “alternative” communist modernity is discussed. The interaction of the USSR and China represents an example of entanglement of alternative modernities. As Arnason demonstrates, in the 1920’s the Soviet model of state-building was seen by various political forces in China as a case of successful imperial restoration. In addition, he highlights the role of ties to China in Soviet politics. Chinese communists adapted Soviet patterns of totalitarian control before even coming to power. After 1949 there was a further adaptation and radicalization of the Soviet model in China. At the same time the rivalry between the USSR and China was largely a product of their imperial legacies. According to Arnason, in post-Maoist China a combination of patterns of capitalist development, elements of Marxist-Leninist political practices and ideology, as well as a selective revival of Confucian legacies all went beyond the Soviet model. Arnason characterizes how Chinese leadership was influenced by the example of economic development of other East Asian countries and examines the rivalry between the USA and China in the global geopolitical context.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.19181/socjour.2023.29.1.7
V. Solodnikov
This article is an introduction to the translation of “How Funerals accomplish Family: Findings from a Mass-Observation Study” by T. Walter and T. Bailey published in this issue. It reviews methods and techniques used to study death and funerals invented by specialists from different fields of knowledge. The qualitative research procedure used by T. Walter and T. Bailey is placed into that research continuum. They used funeral rituals to study social representations of the family. The research revealed the dominance of the blood relation correlation criterion. The study failed to identify the phenomenon of disenfranchised grief.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.19181/socjour.2023.29.1.10
S. Kozin, T. Zhidyaeva
This article is a review of the recently published collective monograph edited by corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Zh. Toshchenko, titled “From precarious employment to precarization of life” (2022). The publication of the reviewed book was made possible thanks to financial assistance from “ARB-Forum M”. It is based on an extensive database of representative all-Russian sociological research conducted between 2014 and 2021. The two main goals of the book were: (a) to substantiate that “precarization of labor” has a pronounced tendency to project instability onto other areas of life; (b) to identify a creative and applied concept of “precarization of life” in relation to the emerging proto-class — the precariat. According to the reviewers, the author’s team managed, as usual, to give the reader a good understanding of the origins of how the precariat came about and its further development in society. At the same time, the authors of the work note that precarization is a complex phenomenon that should not be viewed through the prism of a single scientific discipline or sphere, as it was clearly illustrated to us in the book that precarization has already found its way into such spheres as healthcare, culture, education, politics, economics, household needs, i.e. into the public and private life of Russian people. But perhaps the most significant question is whether precarization can cease? The authors do not give the reader their own unambiguous answer to this question, but recognize that it is on the rise all around the world. In the reviewers’ opinion, this collective monograph makes a worthy contribution to the study of the precarization of life (and the precariat in general). At the end of the article, its authors summarize the main propositions of the book, briefly mentioning them, and also point out the weak and rather contradictory (controversial) sides of the reviewed monograph that require much more thorough study in the future.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.19181/socjour.2023.29.1.8
Tony Walter, Tara Bailey
This article analyzes how potentially conflicting frames of grief and family operate in a number of English funerals. The data come from the 2010 Mass-Observation directive “Going to Funerals” which asked its panel of correspondents to write about the most recent funeral they attended. In their writings, grief is displayed through conventional conceptions of family. Drawing on Randall Collins, we show how the funeral divides mourners into family or nonfamily, with such differentiation occurring through outward display and internal feelings. The funerals described were more about a very traditional notion of family than about grief; family trumped grief, or at least provided the frame through which grief could be described. Funerals were portrayed as a distinct arena privileging family over fluid and varied personal attachments. They are described both in terms of the new sociology of personal life and through the concept of disenfranchised grief.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.19181/socjour.2023.29.1.3
D. Popov, A. Strelnikova, E. Grigoreva
In many countries, including Russia, the COVID-19 epidemic became a catalyst for the technological, “digital” renewal of the school educational process. This renewal occurred rapidly and, in some respects, chaotically, therefore it was described in literature using a special term — “emergency teaching”. Teachers resisting change is sometimes seen as the main reason for the stability and conservatism of schools, as well as for the failed attempts to introduce innovations. Drawing a parallel between modern teachers and Luddites, it is important to assess not only resistance to technological change, but also the social consequences of these changes for the school and for teachers. This article is based on the materials of a long-term observation of Russian school teachers, implemented using qualitative research logic during the time of the most active spread of COVID in 2020–2022. The study revealed the difficulties that teachers face in integrating digital practices into the emergency educational process, as well as their fears related to prospects of a crisis in the profession of teaching. One component of this looming crisis is the expansion of external formal control, as well as the teachers themselves losing control, with the prospect (and fear) of losing autonomy and the teaching profession losing its creative element.
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