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SOCIAL FEATURES OF SIMULATION OF THE CITY, HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD RELATIONS IN THE SIMS COMPUTER GAMES SERIES
2020-12-09 16:49 With the development of the information society, video games for personal computers and consoles, as well as mobile games for smartphones and tablets over the past couple of decades have become a part of the life of most people. The degree of realism and the breadth of possibilities in individual game genres have reached a high level of technical performance. First of all, this of course applies to life simulators, the most famous and popular of which is "The Sims" game series - over 20 million copies have been sold in 20 years. Today, the games in the series are the object of research by Russian and foreign scientists and are devoted to the development of foreign language skills during th...
SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE STUDY OF HOUSING IN WORLD RELIGIONS
2020-11-03 16:54 A person spends a significant part of his time within the walls of his house, and the way he perceives his home, what function it performs for him, leaves an imprint on his life as a whole. This understanding becomes even more important in a pandemic (e.g. coronavirus). Despite the high degree of desacralization of the modern world, religious subtext continues to play a significant role in the perception of the surrounding reality. The article discusses the sociological aspects of studying housing in the religions that have the majority of followers around the world - Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Guided not by a substantial, but by a functional understanding of religion, paral...
SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGES IN THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE NOVOSIBIRSK REGION AND THE CITY OF NOVOSIBIRSK IN 2005-2019
2020-09-30 17:00 Housing construction and improvement of housing conditions in the Novosibirsk region is one of the priority directions of the regional development, the center of which is the metropolis of Novosibirsk. The analysis of socio-economic changes in the morphology of the residential environment of the Novosibirsk region and Novosibirsk for 2005-2019 is presented. The results of different, interdisciplinary researches conducted by sociologists, economists and architects on various aspects of urban planning and housing policy are summarized. In the course of the research, the following main methods were applied: socio-economic and comparative methods, generalization, as well as methods of data col...
EVOLUTION OF MULTI-STOREY RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION THROUGH THE PRISM OF SOCIOLOGY
2020-07-03 17:11 A multi-storey residential house is viewed as a product of urbanization of modern society and is an object of research of such specific branches of sociological knowledge, as sociology of city, sociology of architecture, and sociology of housing. Currently, urbanization processes have captured the majority of developed and developing countries worldwide; the portion of urban population residing in multi-storey buildings (including condominiums, apartments, etc.) is constantly growing. For the sociology of housing, of special interest ate the social prerequisites, patterns and trends of development of multi-storey residential construction, which became the object of this research. The article...
FORMAL SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF CONDOS IN RUSSIA: ANALYSIS OF PROTOCOLS OF GENERAL MEETINGS
2020-06-29 16:52 The article presents the results of an interdisciplinary study of formal social institutions in the management of condominiums, carried out by analyzing official documents - the protocols of general meetings of owners of premises in apartment buildings in Novosibirsk. The analysis of the protocols was carried out according to such parameters of general meetings as role decomposition (initiators, chairman and secretary, counting committee), spatio-temporal parameters (location and form, frequency and duration, place of collection and storage of documents), eligibility (quorum) and problematics (agenda). As a result, the study revealed the features and trends of general meetings of two diffe...