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GENDER STUDIES


POST-SOVIET GENDER CUSTOMS: VIRGINITY VS PRE-MARITAL FREEDOM?
Temkina A.A. P.4-23

Abstract: Sexual and gender order in Armenia and its changes are reconstructed to compare, how the traditional gender order changed in the Soviet period and the period, when the national Armenian state has been shaped.

SOCIOLOGY OF REFORMS


AGRICULTURAL SITUATION IN OPINIONS OF RUSSIAN PEOPLE: DARE THE CHANGES REMARKABLE?
Klimova S.G. P.24-39

Abstract: Quantitative and qualitative data about the Priority National Project «Agro- industrial sector development» implementation, collected by the «Public Opinion» Fund, show dynamics in assessment of its effects by different social groups. It is inferred that the effects are felt selectively: the Project is being enjoyed first of all in more developed regions and by those peasants who have had some personal, social, administrative and economic capitals available.

AREAS OF TOPICAL RESPONSIBILITIES: TYPOLOGY OF PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY FARMING PARTICIPATING IN AGROINDUSTRIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PRIORITY NATIONAL PROJECT
Oberemko O.A. P. 40-57

Abstract: Upon interview data collected in Krasnodar krai it is proposed a preliminary typology of individual household farmers, based on activist social identification conception: practical motivation, interaction with the exterior world strategies, self- defining in social space.

STRATEGIES OF RETIREMENT IN SOCIETY UNDER TRANSFORMATION
Dorofeeva Z.E. P.58-65

Abstract: With Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey data, patterns of evaluating health and economic welfare, and of employment strategies among different groups of pensioners are analysed.

LABOUR MARKETS


PERSONNEL SELECTION: DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MARKETS
Kozina I.M. P.66-78

Abstract: Actual transformation of recruitment patterns in Russian industries is studied. It is inferred that, on the one hand, it has been shaping a network of special institutions for recruitment in a market economy, but on the other hand the enterprises keep definite conservatism in personnel politics.

CAREER SPACE ON RUSSIAN LABOUR MARKET
Yevstigneeva N.V. P.79-95

Abstract: The concepts of «carrier», «carrier advancement» are interpreted as a process of mutual relationships between Manager and Organization; a typology of top- managers’ carrier trajectory is proposed.

SOCIAL THEORY


INSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSES: THE PROGRAM OF COMPARATIVE RESEARCH
Kozhemiakin Ye.A. P.96-106

Abstract: The article proposes a programme of comparative researches for building an inter-disciplinary theory of institutional discourses, which is to qualify discoursive practices, and (re)construct the model patterns of expert knowledge production.

SOCIAL THEORY


RATIONALITY NOTION IN WEBER AND NEO-MARXIST TRADITIONS
Saponov D.I. P.107-118

Abstract: Two interpretations of «modernity rationality», by M. Weber and G. Lukacs, are overviewed. It is argued that antipositivistic, philosophy of life intellectual attitudes make G. Lukacs and the neo-Marxists negate the M. Weber’s postulate on heterogeneity of orders of values and things and deny theory any autonomy from the praxis. For G. Lukacs, it is inferred, rationality is a consequence of the capitalist relationships, whereas for M. Weber the former is the cause of the latter.

 

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