Publications

"The article traces possible channels of influence of a religious factor on the formation of a specific Russian version of socialism. Using the logics of the M. Weber’s work “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, I. Zabaev reveals the categories that played a dominating role in the people’s consciousness in the pre-revolutionary Russia. According to his conclusion, these categories were “obedience” and “resignation”. It was obedience and resignation that assured the salvation (main value in Orthodoxy) of an Orthodox person. In everyday life such orientations were easily transformed into the readiness to obey the “superior”. Once elaborated, they turned to be quite stable and, being separated from their religious roots, ensured a sort of asceticism on the secular path. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 179049: Politike dru?tvenog pam?enja i nacionalnog identiteta - regionalni i evropski aspekt]."

"This study is an attempt to apply the logic of  M.Weber study "Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism" to Russian economic realities analisys. The book describes the results of the sociological study at several Russian Orthodox Church monasteries conducted during 2003 - 2004. For the validation of the empirical data  was completed analysis of the popular  literature, issued by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1990 - 2004."

"The book describes the results of  the childbearing motivation study, based on the series of in-depth interviews with russian megapolises citizens of  reproductive age.  The project "Family and childbearing in Russia. Categories of parental mind" was conducted at St.Tikhon's Orthodox University in 2008-2009. The research is realized in the frame of grounded theory. Categories, used by actors in comprehention of childbearing and related issues, are the subject of discussion in the book.  Also authors formulate sociological hypothesis as a response to the explanations of childbearing, developed in demography and economic science."

"The book describes main findings of the study "Three Moscow parishes. Main socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes of the large parishes communities members".  The survey  was conducted on 14.10.2012 in three  large Moscow churches, distinctive (by expert evaluations) for their experienced clergy  and strong parish communities. In this study representatives of the Orthodox parish community are compared with the average Russians on the main social indicators and value scales, significant in the perspective of the State/country development."

"He article deals with the question that is the important for the understanding both the current state of science and education and the history. The author explains the problem of the theology’s place in the system of a scientific knowledge by giving the materials of the discussion at the Office preceding the All-Russia Church Local Council in 1906. He investigates the discussion and detects the systematic point of view."

"Despite the standpoint that postulates the presence of a tight boundary between the state and the church in the area of education and that currently dominates in the public space, there are projects that are being initiated and realized today and that let us question its consistency. The aim of the article is to discuss these “impossible” projects exploiting the friction at the overlap. This article draws on participant observation fieldnotes, as well as 24 in-depth interviews with the staff, students, and graduates of a private Orthodox Christian University, conducted in 2011. In interpreting the research results, the author employs the principle of explaining the entrepreneurial exploitation of uncertainty, which was introduced by David Stark who expounded on the notion of heterarchy as an organizational form conducive to the productive untangling of complex situations."

"The article presents a review of various ways to operationalize the concept of religiosity in quantitative research. The author describes the main stages in the development of quantitative approach to the study of religiosity, and then explores operationalization methods used within four major comparative surveys — International Social Survey Program, European Values Study, World Values Survey, and European Social Survey."

"The goal of the text is to provide a “big picture” of homeless people support in Russia. Based on survey held in organizations working with homeless people in Russia in 2011 the author describes main actors, compares state and non-state organizations, develops types of homeless people support. State organizations basically provide locally based hard-to-access complex support. Two other types of support – the one aimed at homeless people return to family, and another - minimum support for vulnerable people, are provided mostly by non-state actors. The text touches the question of religion influence on homeless people support both in direct way (significant share of organizations helping the homeless are religious in Russia) and indirectly (through interaction with religious organizations)."

"The review deals with the concept of social network and its components: the actor characterized by attributes and relations / connections between actors. Based on empirical examples the review addresses two main research directions in social networks analysis: social network theory construction and the usage of social network analysis concepts / tools to study the effects of some interest to the researcher, which may also be of two types: analysis of network effects and analysis of impact of certain phenomena on network characteristics."