HOUSING PRECARITY: FACTORS, DISCOURSES AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF MEASUREMENT
2023-10-26 14:58 The precariat is an extremely popular and fashionable topic in modern economic and sociological research. However, unlike most other Russian works devoted primarily to precarious employment, this article actualizes the problem of housing precarity (precariousness of housing), which has been actively studied in recent years by representatives of various sciences around the world. Housing (rented, service, etc.) in this case is considered as an unsustainable, unstable physical place of residence for representatives of various social groups – young professionals, elderly people, migrants, etc. The author pays the main attention in the article to housing precarity in connection with prec...
THE MULTIPLICITY OF RATIONALITIES IN THE HOUSING SECTOR. FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MAX WEBER
2023-09-07 21:49 The work was prepared as part of participation in the III competition of scientific works for the Max Weber Prize, held by the Center for Fundamental Sociology of the HSE University in 2023. The main idea of this article is to reflect various theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of housing rationality, which are based on the concept of multiplicity of rationalities, set mainly by M. Weber in the framework of the economic-sociological approach, as well as M. Douglas in the framework of the theory of culture. To implement this task, the author of the article, taking an interdisciplinary position, refers to modern studies of the problems of rationality in the housing sector in...
THE ANNUAL CANADIAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 2023. RESEARCH CLUSTER: SOCIOLOGY OF HOUSING
2023-06-03 21:46 From May 29 to June 2, 2023, the Annual Conference of the Canadian Sociological Association was held at York University in Toronto, where various academic, research, educational and administrative issues were discussed. The conference took place within the framework of the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, which was attended by speakers and listeners from Canada and other countries. For the first time since 2003, a research cluster on sociology of housing was presented at the conference, the work of which within the framework of the association was launched at the end of 2021. Both scientific and pedagogical workers and students, as well as practit...
HOW IS A LEAN HOME POSSIBLE? THE ROLE OF FORMAL INSTITUTIONS IN TRANSFORMATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE
2023-03-07 14:38 The article proposes an interdisciplinary analysis of the socio-cultural phenomenon of a lean home, notions about which date back to the ideas of Xenophon (“Domostroy”). In contrast to the purely economic approach to frugality, which emphasizes the financial aspect, the focus of this study is lean philosophy, the introduction of which into everyday household practices is possible through the 5S lean production system. At the same time, maintaining the order of things and cleanliness in the house are interpreted from the anthropological position of M. Douglas, while standardization and sustainability are considered within the framework of the institutional paradigm (habitualization of for...

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