Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization
The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research hosted the international workshop «Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization» in Saint Petersburg on April 24-27 2011.
The LCSS regular workshop
The regular working seminar of LCSS took place on April 21, 2011. It covered the discussion of economic experiments on the provision of public goods.
The third regular seminar: "St. Petersburg and Shanghai at the reform period"
On April 14, 2011 at the third regular seminar of LCSS, Mikhail Chernysh, PhD, the Head of the Sector of Social Mobility at the Institute of Sociology of the RAS, reported about the most interesting results of the Russian-Chinese comparative study: “St. Petersburg and Shanghai at the reform period”, carried out in 2009.
The History and the Methodology of Comparative Cross-national Social Studies
The second methodological seminar of LCSS took place on March 24, 2011. The lecture “The History and the Methodology of Comparative Cross-national Social Studies” was delivered by Anna Andreenkova, PhD, assistant director of CESSI, director of European Social Study in Russia.
Interview with Professor Eduard Ponarin on His Business Trip to Kazan
Eduard Ponarin: In Kazan I had a meeting with the colleagues from the Institute of Modernization Studies. This is a new institution that is being created right now. The first discussion of this idea with the principal of the Kazan University happened in September 2010, and they plan to sign all the papers this March.
Eduard Ponarin: "Seminars will be common!"
On March 10, 2011 the first LCSS seminar was held in Moscow. The first topic of discussion was the confrontation between Right and Left in Europe, the economist Alexei Zaharov was the first speaker. the Head of Laboratory, Prof. Eduard Ponarin, gave an assessment of the event.
The first LCSS workshop in Moscow
On March 10, 2011 the HSE Faculty of Sociology hosted the first Laboratory for Comparative Social Studies workshop (LCSS). The report "Nationalism and ethnic discrimination: a review of quantitative research" was made by Alexei Zaharov, LCSS research fellow.
The final day of the ACSR conference
The final day of the conference started with a meeting of the young researches and with HSE professors Eduard Ponarin and Daniel Alexandrov. They gathered to discuss the conference results at the Azimut hotel.
The third day of the ACSR conference
he third day of the conference started with the reports by scheduled participants. The discussion of the reports was held after their speeches. All participants of the conference got the remarks and recommendations from LCSS management.
The second day of the ACSR conference
On the second day of the conference participants had an opportunity to present their individual projects to the LCSS management.