{"title":"The idea of a city for people as a factor in the localization of protest voting in new residential complexes","authors":"M. Podkorytova, I. Raskin, A. Nenko","doi":"10.21638/spbu12.2022.401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2022.401","url":null,"abstract":"The gradual formation of income segregation in the post-Soviet city leads to the localization of protest voting. New residential complexes are significant spatial elements of this process. The new housing attracts citizens with similar income levels and perception of the quality of the living environment, empowering urban segregation. Moreover, the gap between expected and experienced urban life is usually observed in the new housing, supported by frequent practices of deceptive marketing and concluding real estate transactions long before the construction is over. Following that, the discrepancy between the character of the urban environment inside and outside the residential complex forces the localization of protest voting within the new housing. The key concept in explaining that kind of a protest vote localization is “city for people”. The external attributes of the city for people, including safety, accessibility, sustainability, are promoted by developers as part of marketing campaigns and shape a latent demand from the buyers. However, the systematic lack of these claimed elements in new residential complexes leads residents to political protest and focus on the political component of the city for people. Citizens adopt a critical attitude towards the infringement of the rights of residents by developers and urban administration and a request for equal participation in city management. The paper critically observes the case of protest voting in the residential complex «Ya - Romantik» in St Petersburg. The significant lack of infrastructure empowers citizens there to manifest political claims and exercise solidarity. Also the prospective locations of the protest voting are discussed.","PeriodicalId":135763,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115980375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managers in the digital economy: New challenges and competencies","authors":"Margarita M. Chegurova","doi":"10.21638/spbu12.2021.302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2021.302","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents a critical review of studies concerned with competencies and behavioral models of managers in the context of remote work and digitalization of business processes. The digitalization process, being one of the leading trends in the labor market, has irreversibly changed organizations, work environments and processes by creating new challenges for leaders. More flexible organization structures are beginning actively used in different industries and organizations, for example, remote forms of work. Moreover, digital services and technologies help companies adapt more quickly and effectively to new conditions. Remote work, which is becoming a new global norm of work, opens significant opportunities for companies, but also requires another type of management — electronic. The new type of leadership implies significant changes in the relationship between a manager and employees, which makes it necessary for leaders to change their behavioral models. E-leadership, whose role is to facilitate working conditions and maintain employee motivation to achieve desired goals, offers an effective combination of electronic and traditional communication methods that can be expressed through two groups of leadership competencies: socio-communicative and socio-technological. E-leadership practices will not only be able to ensure the development and realization of an employee’s work potential, but also optimize personal relationships in the workplace. The results of this article reveal the potential of using the new concept of leadership in studies of new working conditions.","PeriodicalId":135763,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131362382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communicative strategies of COVID-trolling on the VKontakte social network","authors":"V. Vasilkova, N. Legostaeva, Polina M. Kruchinina","doi":"10.21638/spbu12.2021.306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2021.306","url":null,"abstract":"The activation of trolling accounts during the COVID-19 pandemic, which are usually associated with COVID dissidence and cast doubt on the effectiveness of measures taken to combat the pandemic, has actualized the problem of detecting potentially dangerous accounts on social networks and analyzing the communication strategies they use to influence network users. The article represents the first experience of studying trolling strategies in the discussion of COVID-19 by users of the Russian social network “VKontakte”. Using unique methodology to detect trolling accounts based on the analysis of bursts of network publication activity through comments, combined with the profiling of trolling accounts, allowed us to identify 8 trolling accounts in the social network “VKontakte” from March 18 to June 10, 2020 according to the specified keywords. To identify their communication strategies, a system of indicators (tactics) was developed that correspond to the strategies of overt and covert trolling. An overt strategy includes such tactics as verbal aggression, emotional tension, provocation, call for confrontation, refuting the official point of view, humiliating the opponent, changing the topic of discussion. A covert strategy includes tactics of irony or ridicule, demonstrating authority, doubting the status quo, “naive questions” and misleading. As a result, it was shown that the analyzed trolling accounts use both overt and covert strategies of influence, with the more aggressive (overt) communicative strategy predominating. The article indicates the prospects for the research topic’s development: identifying the specifics of COVID-trolling in relation to other contextual and thematic types of trolling; studying the dynamics of COVID-trolling at different stages of the pandemic and the features of COVID-trolling strategies implemented by users of various social networks and different countries; analyzing the degree of impact of COVID-trolling on users.","PeriodicalId":135763,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130246011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digitalization of the education system in Russia and China: Causes and social consequences","authors":"Elena Larina","doi":"10.21638/spbu12.2020.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2020.107","url":null,"abstract":"spheres of society. The author notes that the economy takes new development paths, digital. This economy requires new professions, for the preparation of which requires modernization of the educational system. There is a need for new professions based on digital technologies. The successful introduction of these professions into the economic system requires the training of highly qualified specialists. This prerogative belongs exclusively to the field of education. Therefore, in the new economic new educational directions are emerging, which contribute to the training of specialists capable of working in the digital economy. The article describes the changes that education has undergone under the influence of the digitalization focusing on two cases: the educational system in Russia and China. The author analyzes the main changes in the educational systems of these two countries, and discusses the main ways of their development. She points out the ways of joint development of the educational system, especially higher education, between Russia and China, provides programs of internships, exchange of students and opportunities for higher education of Chinese students in Russian universities, and Russian students in Chinese universities.","PeriodicalId":135763,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131707104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methodological antinomies of Pitirim Sorokin’s Sociology of Revolution: Toward the publication of selected German reviews of the book (1925–1929)","authors":"N. Golovin","doi":"10.21638/spbu12.2023.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2023.106","url":null,"abstract":"Four reviews published in Russian for the first time are by H.Mauter (Cologne, 1889–1964), E.Jenny (Berlin, 1872–1939), N.N.Bubnoff (Heidelberg, 1880–1962), A.Meuisel (Aachen, 1896–1960) on the book “The Sociology of Revolution” (1925, German edition, 1928) by the Russian-American sociologist P.A. Sorokin (1889–1968) provide a theoretical context that allows us to trace some significant changes in the methodology of Sorokin’s sociology from moderate behaviorism towards the formation of an integral logico-meaningful method of analyzing the dynamics of social and cultural systems and creating the conceptual foundations of social systems theory. They differ from the American reactions to the book by discussing fundamental methodological problems of social theory: stability and dynamics of social systems, ensuring their stability and equilibrium. The reviews contrast the behaviorist content of the concepts of revolution and reaction in Sorokin’s work with the significance of these concepts in political theory and the sociology of politics. The question of the objectivity of Sorokin’s study of revolution, taking into account his moral assessments of the behavioral phenomena of revolutionary events in Russia, is discussed in the context of the methodological requirement of German sociologist Max Weber to reject political evaluations of social processes and phenomena. The paper substantiates the possibility of developing a general sociological theory of revolution and the significance of Sorokin’s study in relation to this issue, taking into account the difference between sociological and historical approaches to the subject. It is proved that German reviews published in leading professional journals of interwar Germany had some influence on the change in the methodology of Sorokin’s sociology.","PeriodicalId":135763,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117149857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Citizens E-participation in the modern metropolis: Area and specifics","authors":"V. Belyi, L. Vidiasova, A. Chugunov","doi":"10.21638/spbu12.2022.201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2022.201","url":null,"abstract":"The paper explores the history of the development of the e-communication environment for interactions between the authorities and citizens in the electoral metropolis of St. Petersburg. The paper presents the results of a comprehensive exploratory study with two components. The first study was conducted in 2021 using the expert survey method, attended by 60 people from among employees of government and local governments, management companies, organizations in the housing and communal services sector, representatives of the scientific and educational community, and city activists. The second study, conducted by surveying 354 employees of 43 executive bodies of state power, reveals assessments and opinions of officials on the nature of the exercise of the right to a position owned by citizens, as well as increasing the level of development of society in the social a group of employees of the executive bodies of state power of St. Petersburg. The results of these empirical studies are interpreted in the context of data, obtained through surveys of the population and employees of St. Petersburg. The results of a survey of civil servants, as well as experience, confirmed the need to support the authorities in order to increase the influence of the population. In the authorities, interaction and information exchange between officials is quite clearly built, and representatives of this group positively assess the effects of using electronic formats of interaction with the population.","PeriodicalId":135763,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123506746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Problems of semantic reconstruction of the sociological narrative","authors":"G. Kanygin","doi":"10.21638/spbu12.2022.303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2022.303","url":null,"abstract":"A sociological narrative is a human’s storytelling in which another human is not always able to trace semantic connections in a relevant way. Such uncertainty has a detrimental effect in key cases of verbal description of social processes such as theory building, drafting laws and maintaining of document flow. Based on research in the areas of qualitative data analysis and knowledge management, the article expresses the conviction that a significant reason for the semantic uncertainty of the narrative is its construction by the author in the form of a text flow. The necessity and possibility of a natural language description of social processes in the form of a structural narrative is substantiated. Analytical coding is proposed as a tool for constructing such a narrative. In contrast to the approaches used today, analytical coding allows the researcher in a single instrumental procedure, on the one hand, to adhere to the habitual practice of verbal description of something; on the other hand, to structure their natural language wordings with the help of ontological methods of knowledge management. Specific analytical coding techniques are considered in detail within methodological cases in which a researcher finds him/herself when deciding to construct a narrative using analytical methods. Among such cases, the initial epistemological attitudes of the author of the narrative; localization of the meaning of a verbal statement by indicating the context; linking contextsensitive wordings; construction and generation of narrative semantic chains; instrumental control of narrative connectivity are mentioned. In conclusion, it is noted that the improvement of methods for constructing a structural narrative allows us reckoning on solving the problems of decomposition of verbal knowledge about social processes and on creating opportunities for interdisciplinary teamwork of specialists with different competencies","PeriodicalId":135763,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125791379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From incentive to self-organization: The evolution of management approaches","authors":"N. Orlova","doi":"10.21638/spbu12.2020.203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2020.203","url":null,"abstract":"This article is an overview of approaches to managing labor motivation Evolution from classical Taylorism to modern agile methods. The author considers the main approaches to work motivation in the context of their relationship with the basic principles of the agile. In the 20 th century management evolved from simple forms to complex hierarchical organization, depersonaliza-tion and bureaucratization of business processes until it became a hindrance to development and competitiveness. After that the reverse movement begins — towards a flatter management structure and proclamation of the priority of “people and relationships” in relation to “processes and tools”, to “motivation without stimulation”. The logic regarding employee motivation has undergone changes: from the idea that motivation can and should be controlled with external incentives to the belief that any attempt to exert external influence can demotivate employees. The author has developed a typology of approaches to work motivation based on the severity of two components in the theory: “system — actor”; and “stimulation — self-organization”. The system-actor dichotomy shows how the theory explains labor motivation: focusing attention on the control system or on the individual characteristics of the actor, needs or work values. The dichotomy “stimulation — self-organization” explains how it is supposed to influence the motivation of an individual or group: through targeted stimulation or the creation of conditions for self-organization. These dichotomies were chosen to highlight the typology in connection with their importance for the agile approach. The article focuses on three aspects of motivation: material incentives, social environment, labor content. These aspects are of the greatest importance for agile management, and a focus on them allows you to see the fundamental differences between agile practices and traditional management approaches.","PeriodicalId":135763,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125664594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Museum sociology in the context of socio-historical changes","authors":"Tatiana A. Litvin","doi":"10.21638/spbu12.2022.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2022.104","url":null,"abstract":"The urgent need to study museum visitors in Russia usually arose during periods of qualitative reforms in the museum sphere, shortly after cardinal social changes. Such milestones in Russia were the 1920s–1930s, the 1960s–1970s, and the 1990s–2000s. Research at this time had significant results. The purpose of the study is to describe the historical context to explain the activation of the audience analysis. The novelty of this approach consists in substantiating the need for sociological research and indicates ways to improve them through interdisciplinary cooperation of sociologists, museologists, historians, art historians and other specialists. The first breakthrough was aimed at attracting the proletariat that won the revolution to the museum for its elementary education. This helped to retain the museum in the USSR as a type of institution. The museum boom of the 1960s pushed the state to more carefully calculate the results of the work of museums and monitor them. During this period, the museum began to be perceived as one of the tools for educating a Soviet citizen. The third period coincided with a wave of commercialization, and museums entered into a struggle for their audience through the planning of exhibition and teaching activities, and the Internet. The analyzed material proves that sociological research is activated when museums become the arena of revolutionary or communication experiments, and they need to be considered in a historical context.","PeriodicalId":135763,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126599778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preventive medicine in Russia: The problem of public (dis)trust","authors":"S. Savin, A. Smirnova","doi":"10.21638/spbu12.2022.406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2022.406","url":null,"abstract":"Based on a range of empirical studies, the article discusses the contemporary challenges and contradictions for the development of preventive medicine in Russia amongst the enormous distrust of the population towards preventive medical measures. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the discussion about preventive medical actions as a necessary measure for maintaining national security has assumed new importance. While the Russian government tries to reduce the epidemiological and economic risks by strengthening control and involving the population in preventive procedures, “coronavirus restrictions” have caused significant discontent among the population. The protest voices of “COVID dissidents” are heard loudly in public spaces, and the arguments of opponents of vaccination are widespread in Russian society. However, even before the pandemic, the wary attitude of the population towards vaccinations and preventive measures was already acutely problematic. In 2020-2021 a sociological study was conducted to identify a number of objective and subjective factors of public (dis)trust towards preventive medical measures, and, in general, the value attitude towards health and preventive care in Russian society. The analysis showed the sensitive points of the Russian’s attitude to preventive medicine and issues of health promotions, demonstrating the existing stereotypes and fears of people, as well as the problems of modern preventive medicine in general and vaccination. The authors conclude that the problem of institutional (dis)trust is key for the development of preventive medicine in Russia. Without voluntary and interested participation of the population in medical practices, the development of the modern concept of predictive, preventive, personalised and participative medicine will not be successful.","PeriodicalId":135763,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114819269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}