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HOME AS A DETERMINANT OF MOBILITY AND IMMOBILITY PRACTICES IN ONLINE COMPUTER GAMES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE SURVIVAL SIMULATOR RUST)
2022-10-25 13:55 Online games for PC are a frequent object of research in various social sciences and humanities, which is due to the special interest in the forms and practices of social in-game interaction, which have their own specifics. This article presents the results of a sociological analysis of mobility and immobility practices in the online computer game Rust, which is a popular survival simulator in the open world. The object of the study was numerous videos with recordings of the gameplay on the YouTube platform. The analysis is based on the idea of the role of the house (dwelling), its functions and inseparable connection with the trajectories of in-game mobility, considered in the discourse o...
COMPLAINTS ARE NOT GIFTS. DYSFUNCTIONALITY OF THE INSTITUTION OF COMPLAINTS IN THE FIELD OF HOUSING AND COMMUNAL SERVICES IN RUSSIA
2022-09-30 13:57 Complaints, their forms, and their functions, as well as their institutionalization in various sectors of the economy, attract increasing interest among scientists around the world. According to O. S. Sukharev, ideas about the socio-psychological nature of complaints suggest a certain dysfunction of the relevant institution, which reduces its effectiveness but does not lead to its collapse. This article reflects the result of correspondence with a representative of the Novosibirsk economic and sociological school Prof. O. E. Bessonova, the author of a series of articles on the benefits of complaints as a signaling institution of a non-market type. The discussion concerned the controversy re...
SOCIAL RECLUSION AND SOCIAL SECLUSION AS FORMS OF SOCIAL WITHDRAWAL: TO THE PROBLEM STATEMENT
2022-09-29 13:40 The article presents the author's interpretation of the relatively new concepts for Russian sociology "social reclusion" and "social seclusion", in the discourse of which an analysis of some historical and modern practices of voluntary and forced (under the influence of institutions or force majeure circumstances) social withdrawal was carried out. The study notes that social reclusion/seclusion doesn’t always occur in conditions of social isolation - the number and intensity of social ties can decrease, but not be reduced to zero, which prevents loneliness. At the same time, social withdrawal can take place in conditions of physical isolation - in a reclusorium, which in modern societ...
SOCIAL AND HOME RECLUSION: A REVIEW OF FOREIGN RESEARCH
2022-09-26 21:12 In recent years, researchers around the world are increasingly turning to the problem of social alienation, which is caused not only by the coronavirus infection epidemic, but also by numerous other social and institutional processes. This article presents an overview and sociological analysis of foreign approaches to the study of social reclusion as a form of social alienation in religious, sociophilosophical, psychological, recreational, historical-cultural, spatial-geographical and economic-political discourses. Social reclusion is demonstrated both on wellknown historical (reclusive poetess Emily Dickinson and others) and on modern cases. It was revealed that social reclusion can occ...
MANAGEMENT OF APARTMENT BUILDINGS IN RUSSIA BEYOND BUDGETING
2021-12-24 18:41 The article examines the 12 principles of Beyond Budgeting , proposed by J. Hope and R. Fraser, and the peculiarities of their application to the management of multi-apartment buildings. The possibility of introducing Beyond Budgeting is analyzed not only in management organizations, but also in the direct management of apartment buildings and in creation of a homeowners' association. The results of the implementation of the principles of Beyond Budgeting (change in organizational culture) are analyzed according to the McKinsey 7S model. Recommendations for the implementation of Beyond Budgeting are given in the framework of the theory of organizational change by M. Beer and N. Noria. ...