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Volume 9, № 4, 2011

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Editorial. Social modernization: contexts and contrasts

Articles

Elena Rozhdestvenskaya

The life and work balance concept: lessons from the European social policy and Russian perspectives

Yulia Lezhnina

The lower class in Russia: the role of social policy in slowing down the process f its formation

Anna Sukhova

Childcare services: scope and factors of consumption by Russian families

Lilia Sagitova

House of Friendship of Nations as an object and subject of social transformation: from the Soviet model to the globalized one?

Lyudmila Marinenko

«All the best to children»: children and teenagers in hierarchy of supply in Siberia in the first half of 1930s

Reviews

Karbainov N. I. Radical critic of Olympic industry (Lenskyj H. J. Olympic Industry Resistance: Challenging Olympic Power and Propaganda.

Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. 182 p. ISBN 978-0791474792)

Pautov I. S. Global economy and well-being: challenges of the 21st century (Taylor P. The Careless State: Wealth and Welfare in Britain Today. L.; N. Y.: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010. 229 p. ISBN 978-1-8496-6001-3)

Yarskaya V. N., Lysikova O. V. Tourism in a field of social discourse (Pokrovski N. E., Cherniaeva T. I. Tourism: from social theory to the practice of management. M.: Universtitetskaia kniga; Logos, 2008. 424 p. ISBN 978-5-98704-425-1)

T.A. Vlasova Opening  “black box”: a potential of ethnographic methods in sociology of education (How to do Educational Ethnography / Edited by Geoffrey Walford. L.: Tufnell Press, 2008.

186 p. ISBN 1872767 923)

Ekaterina Sobiray Social aspects of mobile communication . comparative perspective (Ling R., Donner J. Mobile communication. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009. 200 p.

ISBN 9780745644134)

Lubimova A.D., Kuznetsova-Morenko I.B., Surkova I.Yu., Chernova Zh.V. Issues of exclusion and inclusion in social policy

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Volume 9, № 3, 2011

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Editorial. Social care and possibilities of cultural choices

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Zhanna Chernova Who should care for whom and under which conditions? Gender analysis of care regimes and family policy

Evgeniya Lukyanova Educational achievements of migrant children (on the materials of survey at Saint-Petersburg)

Albina Garifzianova Subcultural resources and practices of youth as overcoming of social limits (on the materials of ethnographic study of skinheads group)

Elena Kuzmina (Starkova) Communities in Live Journal – new communication opportunities for subcultural groups and public initiatives: from cultural products exchange to social problems

discussion

Anna Klepikova Volunteers of a charity organization in the state run institutions for severely disabled people: the constructs of volunteerism and professionalism

Book reviews

Pavel Masychev, Nikolai Bozhok Once more about a “problematic” youth (Chuprov V.I., Zubok Yu.A. Youth extremism: essence, forms of manifestation, trends.

Moscow: Academia, 2009. 320 p. ISBN 978-5-87444-311-5)

Vladimir Zayonts Social theories of inequality applied to virtual spaces (Witte J.C, Mannon S.E. The Internet and Social Inequalities. New York: Routledge, 2009.

182 p. ISBN: 978-0-415-96319-0)

Irina Surkova Civic-military relations: functions and perspectives for development (Smirnov A.I. Interrelations between the society and army as a social institution in

contemporary Russia. Moscow: Institute of Sociology RAN, 2010. 254 p. ISBN 978-5-89697-187-0)

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Volume 9, № 2, 2011

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Editorial. Actors and directions of public policy

Articles

John Clarke Beyond public and private? The changing welfare mix

Elena Ivanova Professionalization of New Media and Ethos of the Public Sphere

Alexander Sungurov, Roman Boyarkov Limits of possibilities of governmental participation in tolerance promotion (on the example of regional program)

Nadezhda Radina «Resistance to evil by non-violence»: about activism character of the Russian non-governmental organizations

Mikhail Gorny Interaction of the nongovernmental organizations and authorities: the comparative analysis of the legislation

Svetlana Mareeva Focus of social policy: low income or low resource groups?

Olesya Dovidovich, Tatiana Kattsina The development of social welfare system under the leadership of Alexandra Kollontai: from private sphere in Russian Empire to the public realm in Soviet Russia (12 November 1917 – 11 March 1918)

Book reviews

Inna Babayan, Valentina Yarskaya The contemporary sociological temporalism (Semenova V. Social dynamics of generations: problem and reality. M.: ROSSPAN, 2009. 271 p. ISBN 978-5-8243-1300-0)

Galina Karpova World processes of social and cultural transformations (Globalisation and social institutions: sociological approach / Ed. by. I. F. Devyatko, V. N. Fomina. M.: Nauka, 2010. 335 p. ISBN: 978-5-02-037078-4)

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Volume 9, № 1, 2011

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Editorial. Happiness of nation of well-being of peoples? Multiculturalism vs. nation-building

Articles

Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov From the ‘invention of tradition’ to the ethnography of the state: the Podkamennaia Tunguska river, 1920s

Yulia Gradskova “Emancipation of the nationalka” – social and cultural politics towards ethnic minori-ties’ women (on example of the Volga-Ural region in the 1920s)

Irina Dashibalova Buryat-Mongolian Olympia: iconography of afoot-ski march Ulan-Udе – Moscow, 1936–1937 (on the visual materials of the local mass media)

Sofia Sorokina Surveillance or abandonment? About an issue of the state paternalism towards the aboriginal people of the North

Victoria Antonova, Galina Karpova The Russia version of multiculturalism: are there any perspectives?

Book reviews

 

Vladislav Bocharov Problematization of welfare state (Kastel R. Metamorphoses of the Social Question. A Chronic of Employment / Transl. from French, ed. by N. A. Shmatko. St.-Petersbourg: Aleteia, 2009. 574 p. ISBN 978-5-91419-151-8)

Olga Grigorieva A problem of intolerance in the space of contemporary intercultural relations (Unfinished analysis: xenophobic feelings among youths / Ed. by E. Omelchenko, E. Lukianova. Uli-anovsk: Ulianovsk State University, 2009. 264 p. ISBN 978-5-88866-347-9)

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Volume 8, № 4, 2010

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Editorial. Values of welfare-state

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Thomas Marshall Value Problems of Welfare-Capitalism

Irina Grigoryeva Competence and social policy

Alla Salmina Public opinion and the formation of the state social policy: experience of United States

Larisa Shpakovskaya European policy of higher education in XX century: from State to market .

Elena KovalenkoHomelessness whirlpool and limitation of capabilities

Yana Krupets, Nadezhda Nartova Revising the borders between labour, pleasure and violence: sex-work as a specific kind of informal employment

Book reviews, reports

Alexandra Dmitrieva Study of biography as a social practice

Viktoria Yakovleva How business could become “good”: corporate social responsibility in theory and practice (Krichevsky N.A., Goncharov S.F. Corporate social responsibility. М.: Dashkov and К0 Publishing, 2008. 216 p. ISBN 978-5-91131-849-9)

Vitaly Pechenkin, Ivan Khaldeev «Is this a victim’s fault?» Dilemmas of judicial interpretation of domestic violence (Kolpakova L.A. Domestic violence (victimology and issues of differentiation of responsibility and legislative technic). M.: Yurlitinform, 2009. 196 p. ISBN 978-5-93295-463-8)

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Editorial. Governing of normality and the values of care

Articles

 Valentina Yarskaya, Natalia Lovtsova Youth policy: diverse but not equal yet

Christian Fröhlich Walking the tightrope: Russian disability NGOs between international donors and domestic politics

Angelica Litvinova To bring “mental patient” back to the society: the way of social changes or reforms in psychiatry?

Ulla Pape Striving for social change: non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation

Marina Borovick, Dmitry Mikhel Animal protection movements: history, policy, practice

Svetlana Stephenson Barking is prohibited. The disciplining of pets and their owners in Southern California

Book reviews

Elena Bariabina Isolation as a punishment of young delinquents: critical analysis of Russian and Western traditions McAuley M. Children in custody / Translation from Engl. into Russian by E. Mishkiniuk. M:OGI, 2008. 216 p. ISBN 978-5-94282-462-4.

Maria Vorona “Living well isn’t against the law”: social well-being as a media construct Image of dignified life in the contemporary Russian mass media / Ed. by M. Litovskaya, A. Rosenholm, I. Savkina, E. Trubina. Ekaterinburg: Ural University Press, 288 p. ISBN 978-5-7525-1821-8

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 Volume 8, № 1, 2010

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Editorial. Construction of social problems, social policy and modernization

Articles

Dorothy Pawluch Social problems in constructionist terms

Eugenia Nim About sociologists, TV presenters, knights and scarecrows: deconstruction of social problems by media discourse

Elena Bogomyagkova Euthanasia as a social problem: strategies of problematization and deproblematization

Iskender Yasaveyev “Behind the bars”: media images of Russian prisoners

Alexei Fyodorov Real base of Soviet power: social and demographic characteristics of Russian urban population in 1917–1920 (on the materials of Central Industrial District)

Garold Zborovsky Modernization of education through a prism of social policy

Tomas Marshall The recent history of professionalism in relation to social structure and social policy

Book reviews

 Olga Bendina Life of Ordinary People: concepts of illness and health in social-historical context. Illness and health: new approaches to the history of medicine / edited by Yu. Slumbom,M. Hagner, I. Sirotkina. StPetersburg: European university at StPetersburg, Aleteia, 2008. 304 p.

Natalia Sorokina Private Life and Policy: Soviet underwear as ideological construct. Gurova O. Soviet underwear: between ideology and everyday life. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2008.–288 p.

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