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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. Ess...
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 compar...
UNDER THE COVER OF META-INSTITUTIONS. HOME AS A META-INSTITUTIONAL CONCEPT
2023-03-24 18:09 In institutional studies, there is still no unified approach to understanding meta-institutions and the criteria for referring to them. The purpose of this work is to establish the methodological legitimacy of using the term "meta-institution" in various sciences (economics, sociology, philosophy, etc.), consider the level of mental models and explore individual examples of meta-institutional concepts. The article presents a critical analysis of the theories of meta-institutions in various foreign and Russian studies, based on an interdisciplinary approach. It is concluded that meta-institutions should not be identified with basic, global, total and macro-institutions. The most adequate inte...
THE ROLE OF THE "THIRD PLACE" IN THE PRACTICES OF YOUTH LEISURE: HOUSE PARTY (HOME PARTY) AS A SOCIAL EVENT
2023-03-23 14:00 The problem of youth leisure is a frequent object of study in modern sociology. However, Russian scientists are increasingly paying attention to club culture and various youth subcultures, often overlooking the social phenomenon of house parties. The article analyses the results of individual studies of house parties in the USA, Holland, Denmark, the UK (skins party), the former USSR (“kvartirnik”/home gig) and modern Russia (“vpiska” (inclusion)/ shubz and its various formats). For the methodological basis of the study two approaches are used. The approach of E. Hoffmann, that allows us to study a house party as a social event of an entertaining nature, and the theory by R. Oldenburg of t...
GENERAL MEETING OF APARTMENT BUILDING OWNERS: HOW TO INCREASE INSTITUTIONAL TRUST?
2022-11-07 14:02 The article raises the problem of trust in one of the socio-economic institutions in modern Russian society - the institution of the general meeting of owners of an apartment building. The methodological basis of the study is sociological principles and approaches that allow the possibility of expressing feelings (one of which is trust) to social institutions. The work used the results of predominantly foreign studies of the problem of institutional trust, as well as UN data. In the course of the study, the institution of a general meeting of owners of an apartment building was considered as a place for the manifestation of horizontal democracy, as a quasi-person, and also as the holder of d...