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HOUSING COMPLAINTS, INSTITUTIONAL ANOMALIES AND RED TAPE: NEW ASPECTS OF AN OLD DEBATE
2024-11-29 19:20 The article develops a discussion about the dysfunctionality of the institution of complaints in the housing and communal services sector in Russia, which began in 2022–2023 with a series of articles by D. B. Litvintsev and O. E. Bessonova, published in the “Journal of Economic Sociology.” This work is mainly based on a discussion of the speech of A. D. Abdulaev with a thematic report at a seminar of the Higher School of Economics in March 2024. The article touches on such issues as the need to expand a strictly institutional approach to an integrative one, the limitations of quantitative methods in the study of the institution of complaints, the problem of institutional anomalies in the fun...
HOUSING PRECARITY IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF RESEARCH AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR RUSSIA
2024-11-28 21:11 Housing precarity, along with labor precarity, is becoming an integral part of the modern risk society in the “age of anxiety”. The popularization of research in this area in recent years shows that scientists from different countries are increasingly actualizing the problem of housing precarity in the context of instability of the housing situation of certain segments of the population. At the same time, the results of research in Europe show that both tenants and homeowners themselves are in precarious housing conditions. A study of housing precarity in the United States demonstrates the uneven territorial distribution of this problem. Researchers from Australia have come to similar concl...
HOUSING PRECARITY: FACTORS, DISCOURSES AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF MEASUREMENT
2024-10-29 14:58 This paper addresses the issue of housing precarity – a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly relevant in the context of economic and social instability. Unlike most Russian studies, which focus on precarious employment, this article highlights the precarity of housing conditions among various social groups. Young professionals, the elderly, migrants, and displaced persons often face temporary or unstable housing, which hampers their social mobility and exacerbates their vulnerability. A key aspect of this review is the exploration of dual precarity – the risk of losing both housing and employment at the same time – which is particularly relevant for groups living in service or temporary ...
MULTIPLICITY OF RATIONALITIES IN THE HOUSING SECTOR OF AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: A REVIEW OF MODERN NON-BINARY APPROACHES
2024-10-02 21:49 The main idea of the article is to review various theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of housing problems, which are based on the classical notions of rationalities’ multiplicity set mainly by Max Weber in the framework of his economic-sociological approach, as well as Mary Douglas in the framework of socio-cultural anthropology. To implement this task, the author of the article, taking an interdisciplinary position, refers to contemporary studies of the housing sector’s rationalities in different countries, mainly in Africa and Europe. Despite the lack of a direct connection between different studies, the unanimous refusal of the dichotomy “rational — irrational” in the a...
THE ANNUAL CANADIAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 2023. RESEARCH CLUSTER: SOCIOLOGY OF HOUSING
2024-07-05 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 topics were discussed. The conference was part of the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and attracted speakers and attendees from Canada and other countries. Notably, for the first time since 2003, a research cluster focusing on the sociology of housing was presented, which had been initiated within the association at the end of 2021. Participants included scientific and pedagogical professionals, students, practitioners, and independent researchers, who ...