General and special. Similarities and differences of social attitudes in the post-socialist world

LCSR and Eurasian Monitor's joint section at «Continuing Grushin»

The Third International Sociological Conference «Continuing Grushin» was hold in Moscow on February 28 - March 1, 2013. On this event NGO «Eurasian Monitor» and the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research at HSE organized a joint session «General and special. Similarities and differences of social attitudes in the post-socialist world».

Igor Zadorin, director of «Eurasian Monitor» project and Eduard Ponarin, head of LCSR were moderators of this session.

More than 10 presentations were made there by researchers from Russia, Poland and Ukraine, including members of our Laboratory.

Eduard Ponarin presented some results of the research project «Modernization and Well-Being in Russia», holding together with Ronald Inglehart and Roberto Foa. Anna Nemirovskaya also reported materials of the collective LCSR project «Internal Empires: Social and Political Cultures of the Frontier».

Other participants of the session also presented very interesting projects. For example, results of Dmitri Dmitruk, director of the research project «Social Monitoring» show that people's satisfaction depend not on the absolute level of GDP, but on the dynamics of its growth.

Since all participants have presented big collective projects they had not got enough time to share all significant results. However, the full presentations will be published shortly on the website of the organizer of the conference - Russian Public Opinion Research Center.

by Stanislav Moiseev