249
Comparative Capitalism: Trajectories of Social and Economic Change in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union Since 1991

Monday, 11 July 2016: 16:00-17:30
Location: Hörsaal 30 (Main Building)
RC20 Comparative Sociology (host committee)

Language: English

The objective of this regular session is to examine current hot issues in the studies of capitalism and to make sense of modern manifestation of comparative sociology in understanding processes of economic, social, and cultural development in former Soviet Union (fSU) societies after the demise of the USSR. On the basis of detailed theoretical and empirical analysis of everyday life practices the participants in the session will identify the patterns and underlying causes of success and failure in capitalism evolvement in the Newly Independent States of Eurasia. We encourage to apply those scholars who are interested in the following themes: 

  • comparative study of market institutions in fSU;
  • comparative study of everyday life in countries of the fSU;
  • trajectories of the educational systems;
  • non-governmental and non-corporate sectors of societies;
  • the phenomenon of poverty; 
  • comparative research in issues of culture.


The overall objective of the project is to highlight the role of comparative sociology in studying reality of the former Soviet countries of Eurasia, as well as to develop an advanced understanding of theoretical approaches to capitalism of the 21st century.

Session Organizers:
Andrey REZAEV, St. Petersburg State University, Russia and David L. WEAKLIEM, University of Connecticut, USA
Posters:
249.1
Transnationalism As a New Model of Integration: Comparative Analysis of the Migrants' Everyday Life in Russia and the USA after 1991
Natalya D. TREGUBOVA, TANDEM, St. Petersburg State University, Russia; Pavel LISITSYN, TANDEM, St. Petersburg State University, Russia; Hope MCKOY, UCLA and TANDEM, St. Petersburg State University, USA
249.2
A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Patterns in the Catching-up Performance of the Former Soviet Union Republics
Zenonas NORKUS, Sociology Department, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Lithuania
249.3
Memberless Civil Society in Russia: Interdependencies Between the Third Sector, the State and the Market
Zhanna KRAVCHENKO, Sodertorn University, Sweden; Apostolis PAPAKOSTAS, Södertörn University, Sweden
249.4
Civilizational Specific of Dreams in Russia and China
Irina TYURINA, Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Mikhail GORSHKOV, Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
249.5
Comparative Analysis of Causal Mechanisms, Prevention and Regulation of the Ethno-Social Conflicts in Academe: Cases of Russia and Ukraine
Andrey REZAEV, St. Petersburg State University, Russia; Valentin STARIKOV, TANDEM, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
249.6
Comparative Capitalism: 25 Years of the New Societies' Evolvement in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Andrey REZAEV, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
249.7
The Notion of Capitalism and the Reality of Contemporary Societies in the Fsu Countries.
Dmitrii ZHIKHAREVICH, St. Petersburg State University, Russia; Anna KULESHOVA, The Monitoring of Public Opinion Journal, Moscow, Russia
249.8
Ethnicity Conflicts and Nationalism in the Former Soviet Union Countries
Anna ANDREEVA, Comparative Sociology, Ukraine; Maria ERMAKOVA, Comparative Sociology, St. Petersburg State University, Russia; Alexander STEPANOV, TANDEM, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
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