Социологический журнал 1-2014

CONTENTS

THEORY AND METHODOLOGY

K.S. Divisenko The lifeworld researches in social Sciences p.6

(Divisenko Konstantin Sergeyevich — candidate of sociology, research fellow, the Section on Sociology of Family, Gender and Sexual Relationships, Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SI RAN). Address: 7-ya Krasnoarmeyskaya str., 25/14, office 506, St. Petersburg, 190005, Russia. Telephone: +7 (812) 316-21-62. E-mail: divis@inbox.ru)

Summary: The article presents a review of the lifeworld researches and an established usage conceptualization and operationalization of this concept in contemporary sociology. The analysis of modern applied studies allows us to distinguish the socio-phenomenological and socio-critical directions in lifeworld researches.

Keywords: lifeworld (Lebenswelt), phenomenological sociology, phenomenology.

A.A. Ipatova, D.M. Pogozin A formula to communicative success in the structured telephone interview p.21

(Ipatova Anna Alekseevna — PhD in Cultural Studies, Senior researcher, The Laboratory for survey research methodology, The Institute for social analysis and prediction, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). Address: Prechistenskays emb., 11, Moscow, 119034, Russian Federation. Phone: +7(916) 637-90-37. E-mail: ipatova_anna@mail.ru Rogozin Dmitry Mikhaylovitch — PhD in Sociology, Director, The Laboratory for survey research methodology, The Institute for social analysis and prediction, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). Address: Prechistenskays emb., 11, Moscow, 119034, Russian Federation. Phone: +7(916) 482-30-35 E-mail: nizgor@gmail.com)

Summary: The study examines communicative strategies of interviewers with high performance in the telephone survey made by the Centre for Federative Research Methodology (RANEPA) in April, 2013. In the triad of communicative act comprised of linguistic, speech and conversational acts, the authors describe seven speech techniques: framing of informed consent, answer repair, straying away from formalization, empathy, reasonable filling of pauses, explanation of questions, correct ending of interview. Special attention is paid to the paradata of the telephone interview, as it is an essential part of any research. Moreover, four maxims of a high-quality structured interview are articulated: bibasic formalization, communicative priority, conversation integrity, total registration.

Key words: survey quality, linguistic act, public opinion survey, conversational act, speech act, structured interview, paradata, interviewer effect.

SURVEYS, EXPERIMENTS, CASE STUDIES

G.P. Bessokirnaya Status mismatch of rural population in the reformed Russia p. 55

(Bessokirnaya Galina Petrovna — candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, senior researcher of the Sector of study of the everyday activities and time budget, Institute of Sociology, RAS. Address: Krzhizhanovskogo st., 24/35, bl. 5, Moscow, 117218, Russia. Phone: +7 (499) 128-91-05. E-mail: gala@isras.ru)

Summary: The paper presents the results of Russian rural population hierarchy by scales named «wealth», «authority» and «prestige» within 1994–2010. The consistency degree of these three status is considered. As well the essential status mismatch is revealed. Also the article analyzed influence of socially-demographic and socially-professional characteristics of individuals on status crystallization. Interrelations of status crystallization and state of rural population social health were described.

Key words: rural population, wealth, authority, prestige, status mismatch, status consistency, status crystallization, social groups, state of social health.

I.A. Shmerlina Peculiarities of age self-identification in the late adulthood p.72

(Shmerlina Irina Anatol'evna — candidate of sociology, Institute of Sociology, RAS. Address: 117218, Moscow, Krzhizhanovskogo st., 24/35, bl. 5. Telephone: +7 (499) 120-82-57. E-mail: shmerlina@yandex.ru)

Summary: The age self-identification of elderly persons is considered in the article from the viewpoint of conditioning factors as well as its consequences. It is shown that the psychological feeling of age is an independent variable and is only to some extent defined by objective social and demographic characteristics, educational level of the respondent first of all, and his real age and financial position to a lesser extent. Age self-identification makes an essential contribution to the organization of life and attitudes of `aging person. The research argues soundly that active eventful life in elderly age is not western social phenomenon only, but also the Russian one.

Keywords: old age, age self-identification, “the Young Old”.

SOCIAL HISTORY

V.M. Pashinsky Frustrated generations in Russian history, XX–XXI c. p. 81

(Pashinsky Vladimir Mikhaylovich — candidate of sociological sciences, senior researcher of Federal Research Center for Problem of Resource and Waste Management. Address: Olimpiyskiy Prosp., 42, of. 209, Mytishchy, Moskovskaya obl., Russia, 141006. Phone: +7 (905) 552-88-72. E-mail: v_m_p@bk.ru)

Summary: The thesis touches upon the issue of first persons of the state authorities influence to the processes of Russian socium generation dynamics forming. It is demonstrated that in post-monarchy period in Russia there was an alternation of fulfilled generations relating to the groups of supreme dignitaries with demographic emptiness noting the place of frustrated generations. Thereby in the period after 1917 the chance to create his own mass generation and realize corresponding creativity of Russian socium belonged only to one of each pair of potential groups of supreme dignities. This characteristic of Russian generation dynamics is indicative of extreme inefficiency of Russian political system.

Key words: generation, creative potential, supreme leaders, supreme leaders generation, political system, efficiency.

SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE

N.V. Basov Knowledge creation in network communication structures p. 106

(Basov Nikita Viktorovich — Candidate of Sociology, researcher at the Faculty of Sociology of St. Petersburg State University, scientific manager of the Center for German and European studies (St. Petersburg State University – Bielefeld University). Address: Smolny st., 1/3, entrance 9, St. Petersburg, Russia, 193060. Phone: +7 (812) 710-35-94. E-mail: Nikita.Basov@gmail.com)

Summary: This paper analyzes the influence of communication structures on knowledge dynamics. Communication networks theory and methodology are combined with author’s perspective on knowledge, based on autopoiesis theory. Key concepts of network approach are contextualized according to the focus of the paper. We analyze the influence of certain structural factors in communication networks on knowledge fields emergence and development. Relational dynamics and co-evolution of cohesive subgroups in communication networks are analysed as the factors of knowledge transformations in the process of structural coupling between operationally closed distributed cognition systems.

Key words: knowledge, network communication structure, cohesive subgroup, structural coupling, operational closure, knowledge field, system of distributed cognition.

SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

S.V. Mozzhegorov Narratives about the homosexual coming out in the western and the Russian sociocultural context p. 124

(Mozzhegorov Sergej Vladimirovich — graduate student of National Research University Higher School of Economics)

Summary: The article considers the formation and development of narratives about the homosexual coming out in the culture of Western countries and modern Russia. Based on the methodology of storytelling defined structural and genre specificity of personal stories about coming out of Russian homosexuals.

Key words: sexual identity, coming out, personal narratives, sociocultural context, storytelling.

ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF V.A. YADOV

Yadov V.A.: “It’s up to us”/ Interview prepared by B.Z. Doktorov p. 141

ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF “SOCIOLOGICAL JOURNAL”

L.A. Kozlova, M.A. Manuilskiy To authors and readers p. 159

AKADEMIC LIFE

Roundtable dedicated to the memory of T.I. Zaslavskaya (january 17, 2014, Moscow, RANEPA) p. 169
The review of the IV International sociological conference “Developing Grushin” p. 173

REVIEWS, SUMMARIES

L.R. Nizamova Civil, ethnic and regional identities: Yesterday, today, tomorrow / Ed. by L.M. Drobizheva. M.: ROSSPEN, 2013 p. 181

NEW RELEASES p. 186