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DIALOGUES WITH THE NEURAL NETWORK. CHATGPT ABOUT ITS HOME, HOUSING SOCIOLOGY AND THE PROBLEMS OF ITS DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA
2023-09-28 14:47 The boom of neural networks and the surge of scientific publications on the use of artificial intelligence in various fields, as well as numerous articles on the experience of interacting with chatbots are increasingly involving researchers from different countries in the process of understanding the role of smart technologies and their impact on the future of education and science, including sociology. Among the numerous technologies of the future, ChatGPT already stands out most clearly, thanks to which a wide discussion has unfolded about the ethical principles of using artificial intelligence in research and including it in co-authors of scientific articles. Despite this, a number of r...
THERE ARE MANY COMPLAINTS, BUT THERE IS PROFIT. ABUSE OF SIGNAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE RUSSIAN HOUSING AND COMMUNAL SERVICES
2023-09-27 20:48 In 2022, a correspondence discussion on the challenges related to the functioning of the complaints institute within the housing and communal services sector in Russia was initiated within the pages of this journal. The discussion involved the author of this article and Olga Bessonova, a representative of the Novosibirsk School of Economics and Sociology. In response to the article titled “Complaints are not Gifts: Dysfunctionality of the Institution of Complaints in the Field of Housing and Communal Services in Russia” (vol. 23, no 4, pp. 110–121), which critiques the effectiveness of the complaints institution from an interdisciplinary perspective, Prof. Bessonova publi...
SEPARATE WASTE COLLECTION: INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPING PRO-ECOLOGICAL PRACTICES IN EVERYDAY LIFE
2023-07-07 13:42 Studies of the problem of separate waste collection in the discourse of pro-ecological behavior of apartment building residents are becoming increasingly popular every year among Russian scholars representing various fields of science (sociology, psychology, economics, etc.) and approaches. The purpose of this study, based on ideas about the interaction of the material and the technological and institutional environment of society, is to reflect the unwillingness of the Russian population to the so-called waste reform due to various circumstances. Using the example of a comparative analysis of research results in the cities of Moscow, Novosibirsk and Kazan, taking into account the available ...
HOME VS. INSTITUTIONAL. REFLECTIONS ON THE BOOK “DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY IN THE SHADOWS OF INSTITUTIONS” BY L. SERIES
2023-06-30 14:42 This book by Lucy Series, largely based on the ideas of E. Goffmann’s total institutions and M. Foucault’s disciplinary mechanisms, is devoted to the problem of the elderly and people with disabilities in need of social care being deprived of freedom in the carceral and post-carceral era. However, unlike other reviewers, the author of this article sees a significant contribution of L.Series not so much to the development of the theory of social inclusion, based on historical and modern cases from the UK, but to the development of theoretical and methodological ideas about the home and the institutions that, unlike the home environment, form a space where freedom of choice is restricted....
HOUSING DYSTOPIA IN MODERN SOCIETY: A SOCIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS
2023-05-25 18:18 This article, written in the spirit of noir urbanism, actualizes the problem of housing dystopia in the modern world. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is the sociology of knowledge by Karl Mannheim. The results of studies of urban dystopia in the USA, Turkey, Brazil, Iran, and Russia are analyzed. The modern city is a mosaic of utopian and dystopian spaces and buildings (including apartment houses), which is due to the social heterogeneity of its inhabitants, who had various forms of utopian consciousness at certain stages of the development of society. In the course of the study, modern living conditions and ideas about housing in well-known dystopian works are compared...