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...
PARTICIPATIVE BUDGETING AS A FEATURE OF COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF APARTMENT BUILDINGS IN RUSSIA
2023-02-13 14:54 The article presents the author's position on the key problem of managing apartment buildings, namely, it is proposed to consider the voluntary participation of owners in general meetings to approve the housing maintenance tariff as budgeting based on public participation. The main feature of such self-government is the de facto unilateral approval of the tariff by the owners, while their participation in the annual general meeting is optional and at the same time the formation of a neighborhood community is difficult. These two factors underlie the author's approach and allow us to consider (by analogy with municipal government) the participation of owners in general meetings as participato...
COURTYARD OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING AS A SOCIO-CULTURAL PHENOMENON AND ITS IMPACT ON NEIGHBORHOOD PRACTICIES
2022-05-07 13:59 The courtyard of an apartment building, being a communal one, is a special socio-cultural space that has undergone its changes throughout the development of pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet (Russian) cities. The purpose of this article is a sociological analysis of the changes in the modern Russian courtyard in relation to the Soviet one, which were accompanied not only by a decrease in its functional role, but also by a direct impact on the deformation and disintegration of neighboring practices. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study was the work devoted to the courtyard precisely as a socio-cultural phenomenon, and not just an architectural and planning solution in the ...

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