csp: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called csp.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

Russian; Education; Development; Life; State; Religion; Russia; Identity; Women; World; Society; Media; Public; Social; Work; Culture; Time; Analysis; Countries; Values; Self; Article; Community; Respondents; Authors; Societies; History; Children; Model; Students; Human; City; Book; Individuals; Groups; Gender; Memory; Group; Power; Personality; Communication; Theory; Management; Age; Church; Communities; Language; Body; Art; Author; Employees; Pandemic; Knowledge; Philosophy; Image; Translation; India; Islam; Violence; Donation; Military; Everyday

Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• Religious Education in Russian Schools: Plans, Pains, Practices by Iakimova, Olga A.; Menshikov, Andrey S. (2020) - The introduction of the course compelled Russian scholars to engage in comparative research on the development of normative framework and teaching practice in religious education. Despite the importance of global trends and international debates, it is crucial to observe the local dynamics and discover how particular conceptualizations of religion, education goals, principles and teaching practices affect religious education and its development. Keywords: course; cultures; education; ethics; federal; module; orthodox; religion; russian; schools; teaching
• Between Barbarism and Progress: Enlightenment Historical Writings on a Major Conflict in Russian History by Sokolov, Sergei V. (2020) - The discourse on Russian barbarism had been known in Europe since at least 16th century, but Enlightenment thinkers gave it a new shape by juxtaposing the ancient conception of barbarism with the rather modern idea of progress. Napoleon himself on Saint Helena claimed that “the courage of the French was defeated by frost, the fire of Moscow and Russian barbarism” (Segur, 1859, p. 311). Keywords: 18th; barbarians; barbarism; century; civilization; enlightenment; european; french; history; karamzin; language; nations; progress; russian; schlözer; shcherbatov; vol; word
• Samuel A. Greene, Graeme B. Robertson (2019). Putin v. the People. The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia. Yale University Press by Menshikov, Andrey S. (2020) - The latter is as important as a repressive state apparatus in sustaining Russian authoritarian regime. Thus, the “big three” of Russian politics – “autocracy, state-dominated media, and non- ideological, patriotic politics” (p. 152) – create a different psychological terrain in which political choices have to be made. Keywords: power; putin; russian
• Chinese Migration and Cross-Border Practices in the Russian-Chinese Interaction in the Far East: Four Stages of Intercultural Dialogue by Zalesskaia, Olga V. (2020) - Chinese migration is an indispensable condition for the emergence and development of cross-border practices in the RFE and the presence and economic activity of Chinese migrants ensures the continued development of forms of cross-border interaction and, in general, the dialogue between the cultures. At the same time, Chinese migrants in the Russian Far East formed one a distinct, but related subgroup. Keywords: border; china; chinese; development; east; far; interaction; migrants; migration; practices; region; rfe; russian; workers
• The Rise and Decline of Soviet Morality: Culture, Ideology, Collective Practices by Martianov, Victor S.; Fishman, Leonid G. (2020) - As the significance of the upper stratum of Soviet values decreased, consumer discourses strengthened along with a painful sensitivity to the material dimension of life, inequalities of consumption and lack of access to scarce goods. In the late USSR, the flip side of Soviet values was a generalised image of the West taking the form of a consumer paradise, all the power of its advertising being used to destroy the habitual Soviet asceticism, which had failed to take account of everyday life, the comfort and amenities of the private life world against the background of the movement towards communism in the discourse of the total liberation of mankind. Keywords: bourgeois; class; communist; culture; ethics; fishman; form; ideology; life; martianov; morality; people; project; russian; society; soviet; values; virtue
• Cultural Exchanges between Russia and Turkmenistan: Structure, Dynamics, and Defining Features by Muratshina, Ksenia G. (2020) - In 2010, Moscow and St. Petersburg celebrated the “Days of Turkmen Culture” in Russia with the concerts by Turkmen musicians, a presentation of an anthology of the works of the famous Turkmen poet Mollanepes, and an exhibition of Turkmen applied and decorative art (Press Office of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, 2017g). In 2016, the “Days of Turkmen Culture” were organized in both Moscow and Vladimir by Turkmen authorities and the Russian state concert agency “Rosconcert”. Keywords: art; central; cooperation; culture; days; diaspora; exchanges; exhibition; festival; international; ministry; moscow; museum; october; office; press; press office; russian; russian federation; state; turkmen; turkmen culture; turkmenistan
• Art in the Age of Globalisation: Dialogue of Cultures (Ural Opera Ballet Theatre’s Production of the Opera Tri Sestry) by Shishkin, Andrey G.; Morozova, Olga O. (2020) - He tried to find connections between stories taken as a basis for opera librettos and composers’ biographies, looking for similarities between the storylines of opera characters and various historical personalities, as well as employing elements of cinematic art. At the same time, the performances showed that, despite the educational programme and theatre’s efforts aimed at popularisation of contemporary opera art, the mainstream Russian audience was not quite ready for such experiments with the Russian classical work of literature, seeing it as an integral part of the specific time and their own culture. Keywords: alden; art; characters; chekhov; composer; cultures; dialogue; director; eötvös; new; opera; performance; play; russian; sestry; stage; time; tri; work
• Cultural and Educational Practices in the Museum Environment: Transmission of Cultural Heritage by Simbirtseva, Natalia A.; Kruglikova, Galina A.; Plaksina, Elena B. (2020) - Among the most effective factors of development and transformation of museum spaces on the way to openness, accessibility and dialogue are those resources used to facilitate non-institutionalised activities. At a regional level, the familiarisation of children with elements of Ural culture https://changing-sp.com/ 498 Natalia A. Simbirtseva, Galina A. Kruglikova, Elena B. Plaksina during excursions offered by Yekaterinburg museums, regardless of their nationality, is another example of this process. Keywords: activities; children; culture; development; environment; heritage; history; information; museum; pre; russian; space; technologies; transmission; yekaterinburg
• Irony as a Political Demarcation Tool of the New Russian Nationalists by Mitrofanova, Anastasia V. (2020) - 304–322 http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/csp.2020.4.3.103 Received 31 August 2020 © 2020 Anastasia V. Mitrofanova Accepted 30 September 2020 avmitrofanova@fa.ru Published online 9 October 2020 ARTICLE Irony as a Political Demarcation Tool of the New Russian Nationalists Anastasia V. Mitrofanova Institute of Sociology, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia ABSTRACT The article discusses how and why the new nationalists, who call for political self-determination of Russians but share some ideological concepts with liberals, use stiob – form of ironic parody based on overidentification and decontextualisation, resulting in destruction of the authoritative discourse. [The New Russian Nationalism]. Keywords: culture; czarstream; discourse; irony; krylov; literature; lorchenkov; mitrofanova; nationalists; new; parody; people; politics; right; russian; soviet; stiob; video; yoffe; youtube; yurchak
• Nationalism and Colonialism: Oceans, Civilizations, Races by Khomyakov, Maxim B. (2020) - It is imagination that connects nations with autonomy and mastery: through imaginations nations understand themselves as autonomous (free) and rational (powerful); and it is through autonomous and creative imagination that large anonymous communities form the sense of belonging and obtain the moral obligations needed for them to become modern nations. In short, the society in question is modern nation. Keywords: colonial; colonialism; colonies; colonization; colony; empire; europe; french; hand; history; nation; nationalism; people; russian
• Marlene Laruelle (2018). Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields. London: Routledge. by Stepanova, Elena A. (2020) - 396–400 399 Part III – “Nationalism as political battlefield” – describes three main actors of political Russian nationalism in three generations: classic far-right groups; National Democrats supporting the European-inspired populist ethnonationalism; and the resurgent militia groups connected with the expansion of “Novorossiya”, as well as the actors’ ambivalent relationship with state powers due to the unclear legal definition of “extremism” and Kremlin’s intention to consider “everything related to Russian nationalism as a potential rival for legitimacy, and therefore as something it should bring ‘under control’” (p. 171). In her book, Marlene Laruelle – the Director and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the George Washington University (Washington, DC) – discusses the multilayered and multifaceted nature of Russian nationalism as (1) a way to imagine the nation, (2) the set of doctrines and ideologies, and (3) a political movement. Keywords: book; laruelle; nationalism; russian; soviet
• Sara Wheeler (2019). Mud and Stars. Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age. New York: Pantheon Books. Rachel Polonsky (2010). Molotov’s Magic Lantern. Journey in Russian History. London: Faber and Faber. by Purgina, Ekaterina S. (2020) - Journey in Russian History. R. Polonsky’s Russians, unless they are prominent and/or dead, are for the most part bleak, static and unfriendly, not much more than a backdrop for the drama of Russian history. Keywords: book; russian; wheeler
• Fin de Siècle in the Trajectories of Russian Modernity: Novelty and Repetition by Khomyakov, Maxim (2017) - KEYWORDS modernity, rational mastery, intelligentsia and people, fin de siècle, philosophy of common task, resurrection, crisis of democracy, sovereignty, collective and individual autonomy Introduction The centenary of Russian October Revolution has revitalized discussions on the role of this catastrophic event in the trajectory of Russian modernity and, at Received 13 October 2017 One of the interesting questions, then, is how the October Revolution is intertwined with the cultural phenomena of fin de siècle and how they all influenced the trajectories, Russian modernity took afterwards. Keywords: autonomy; century; fedorov; fin; mastery; modernity; nature; russian; science; siècle; society; time; wagner; world
• Comparative Study of Russian and Slovenian Managers Using Subjective Criteria to Control Their Professional Performance by Boštjančič, Eva; Ismagilova, Fayruza S.; Mirolyubova, Galina; Janza, Nina (2017) - General results of sample alignment Samples Mann-Whitney U-test (middle results) measurable criteria weakly measurable criteria Russian 56.11 58.66 Slovenian 60.39 60.19 In the Slovenian sample, measurable and weakly measurable criteria of the effectiveness of professional activity are presented equally in the general structure of subjective monitoring criteria by managers (the distinction is not significant). The hypotheses concerning the existence of structural differences in subjective measurable criteria used by Russian and Slovenian managers was confirmed. Keywords: activities; criteria; effectiveness; management; managers; measurable; monitoring; russian; slovenian; work
• B(ordering) Utopia in Birobidzhan: Spatial Aspects of Jewish Colonization in Inner Asia by Peshkov, Ivan (2021) - The influx of new Jewish population stops, but the region retains part of the cultural infrastructure and constantly balances between the culture of working Jewry and Zionism. The Soviet propaganda used the slogan “To the Jewish Homeland” to inspire Jewish workers from USSR, Europe, South and North America to participate in development of new socialist Jewish Land. Keywords: birobidzhan; border; colonial; development; evenks; far; history; new; peshkov; project; region; russian; soviet; state
• The “End of Times” and the Antichrist’s Arrival: The Orthodox Dogmas and Prophecies in the National-Patriotic Media in Post-Soviet Russia by Shnirelman, Victor A. (2021) - While promoting the program, the newspaper focused on the following themes: a struggle against heresies (embracing Freemasonry, Catholicism and Protestantism) and Ecumenism; a rehabilitation of the Emperor Nicholas the Second as the Tsar- martyr, unmasking of the ritual murders (including an attempt to prove that many Russian Tsars were murdered ritually); a struggle for a restoration of monarchy and Sacred Rus’; an exposure of both the “godless West” and an idea of the World Government, a struggle against population recording through an introduction of personal identification numbers (viewed as the “Beast’s number”) implemented by authorities; a glorification of icons’ miracle power; and a celebration of the Church Fathers and Russian Orthodox enlighteners, whose prophecies of the end of time were regularly published and discussed in the newspaper. [Towards the Light] issued by Russian Orthodox journalists. Keywords: antichrist; authors; church; den; end; newspaper; orthodox; people; restrainer; russian; russkiy; time; vestnik; world; zemshchina
• Time, Moment, Eternity: Hieroglyphs and Meditations in Yakov Druskin’s Philosophy by Menshikov, Andrey S. (2021) - This project was developed over the decades by Yakov Druskin who traditionally is mentioned in relation with the Russian Avant-garde stars—Aleksander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms whose archive Druskin saved from the besieged and bombarded Leningrad, and whose philosophical discussions he reported and whose literary oeuvre he explicated in his own texts. One of the most significant philosophical reflections written by Yakov Druskin are included in the groups of texts under the title Razgovory Vestnikov [Conversations of Messengers] (Druskin, 1998b). Keywords: death; druskin; error; philosophy; russian; thinking; time
• Editor's Note by Stepanova, Elena (2017) - Thus, in his paper entitled Fin de Siècle in the Trajectories of Russian Modernity: Novelty and Repetition, Maxim Khomyakov continues the discussion on modernity in relation to twentieth century Russia. For this purpose, he discusses details of N. Federov’s “Philosophy of the Common Task”, as well as peculiarities of the development of Russian society of the beginning of the last century. Keywords: paper; russian; science
• Daria Dubovka (2020). V monastyr' s mirom. V poiskakh svetskikh kornei sovremennoi dukhovnosti [To the Monastery in Peace: Searching for Secular Origins of Contemporary Spirituality]. EUSP Press by Menshikov, Andrey S. (2021) - But both permanent and temporary inhabitants of the monasteries who have to work for the monasteries’ survival feel that “labor has become the opposite of prayer (антонимом молитвенной деятельности) in modern monasteries” (p. 82, my translation from Russian—A. M.). Both strategies of conceptualising spiritual transformation in modern monasteries – robotisation through “obediences” assigned in everyday labor rather than virtue exercises and prayerful contemplation underpinned by new-age “energy” imaginary rather than traditional hesychasm—can be explained, in Dubovka’s view, by the Soviet cultural legacy that current inhabitants bring with them to the monasteries. Keywords: monasteries; russian; translation
• Trade, Politics and Borderlands: Russia and Britain in the Age of Enterprise by Sokolov, Sergei V. (2021) - The author describes not only British efforts to establish trade with Russia (or through Russia’s lands), but also surveys Russian commercial enterprises in both Asia and America, revealing the Russian government’s great desire to take advantages of its vast territory and the political situation in the borderlands. In the fifth chapter, a broad picture of Russian enterprises is built up. Keywords: author; book; british; company; russian; trade
• The Concept of Mladostarchestvo as a Tool for Criticizing Religion in Modern Russia: An Analysis of Rhetorical Strategies by Lyutko, Eugene; Cherny, Alexey (2022) - In the 2000s, in the process of a rapid growth in use of the term mladostarets/mladostarchestvo in public discussion, it was integrated into a series of other rhetorical strategies directed at criticism of problems in church life. KEYWORDS mladostarchestvo, young eldership, confession, religious leadership, rhetorical strategies, criticism of the clergy, anticlericalism ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under Grant no. 19-78-10143. Keywords: a. c.; church; concept; criticism; e. l.; mladostarchestvo; mladostarets; notion; pastoral; patriarch; people; priest; russian; strategy; term; translation
• Conceptual Framework of Teacher Prestige and Well-Being: Regional Aspects by Berzin, Andrey B.; Maltsev, Aleksey V.; Zavyalova, Natalya A. (2022) - Figure 1 Three-point Analysis Model of Teachers’ Social Representation teaching as a career teacher’s personality well-being factors Social representations of “teaching” community at three time points: 1989, 2016, and 2021 Teacher’s self-assessment Assessment by teachers, students’ parents and school graduates ca re er o pp or tu ni tie s ch oi ce m ot iv es jo b sa tis fa ct io n pe rs on al ity fe at ur es th e im ag e of a te ac he r (m et ap ho rs ) Social Opinions about Teachers and Their Status The final stage of the study comprised the description of social ideas about the role of teachers in terms of their social significance, prestige, and image. Keywords: community; education; number; profession; region; respondents; russian; school; students; study; teachers; teaching
• Metabolic Transformations in the Area of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Russian Megalopolises: The City of Moscow Case by Ermolaeva, Polina O.; Ermolaeva, Yulia V.; Efremenko, Dmitry V. (2022) - Notable examples are the study of solid waste management and environmental equity in Barcelona (Fragkou et al., 2014); the examination of the conceptual and comprehensive sustainability framework of European cities to support decision-making in waste management (Taelman et al., 2018); and, the study of waste planning and resource management in “metabolic thinking” (Longato et al., 2019), among many. KEYWORDS socio-ecological metabolism, metabolic transformations, municipal solid waste, waste management, environmental justice, Russian megalopolis ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under Grant No. 22-28-00392 “Waste production and disposal in the megalopolises of Russia: multisectoral and interdisciplinary analysis”. Keywords: cities; citizens; collection; disposal; environmental; ermolaeva; infrastructure; landfills; management; megalopolises; metabolic; moscow; msw; new; population; processes; recycling; region; russian; sorting; transformations; waste; waste management
• From Systemic Underdevelopment to Basic Urban Maintenance: National Priority Projects in the Russian Periphery by Smirnova, Vera; Adrianova, Ekaterina (2022) - Instigated and promoted as a holistic approach, federal projects address piecemeal issues compelling regional and municipal actors to tap into multiple federal schemes in order to implement more comprehensive plans and complete a full spectrum of projects. [Federal project “Formation of a comfortable urban environment” of the national project “Housing and urban environment”]. Keywords: adrianova; banks; center; city; development; embankment; federal; government; making; national; power; programs; project; public; regions; resources; river; russian; situation; state; urban; vologda; work
• Assessment of the Psychological Well-Being of Russian Youth With the PERMA-Profiler by Volkova, Elena N.; Akimova, Anna Yu.; Isaeva, Oksana M. (2022) - The scores of Russian respondents are significantly higher than the results reported by Butler and Kern for the UK, Greece, Korea, Italy, and the USA in their study of 2016 (this sample is referred to as a total sample). If we compare these results with those of Butler & Kern’s survey (2016), we will see that Russian respondents have scored higher in the scales of Positive emotions and Relationships. Keywords: characteristics; emotions; health; people; perma; psychological; respondents; russian; sample; scales; youth
• Rediscovering Identity: Autobiographical Memory and Media Discourses of Russian-Germans in Germany and Russia by Linchenko, Andrei A.; Gartwig, Bella V. (2023) - How families of “Russian Germans” tell their stories]. One of the significant cultural frameworks for constructing autobiographical memory is family memory, which, as A. Erll aptly puts it, “serve as a kind of switchboard between individual memory and larger frames of collective remembrance” (Erll, 2011, p. 315). Keywords: analysis; bender; discourse; family; germans; group; history; ida; identity; life; media; memory; narrative; people; repatriation; russian; soviet
• “Lostˮ Russian Media Generations in a Changing Social and Digital Environment by Sumskaya, Anna S. (2023) - In this case, a point of departure for conceptualizing media generations is provided by the seminal works of the Canadian philologist and media culture expert Marshall McLuhan, who wrote extensively on the role of media in life, media’s centripetal effect on the development of communications, and their role in civilizational transformations that lead to the emergence of technogenic civilizations. What distinguishes the concept of media generation from that of generation is that at the core of a media generation is people’s enduring preferences in media use. Keywords: age; communication; digital; environment; events; generations; information; internet; life; media; media generations; people; period; russian; self; societies; society; sumskaya; values; war; world
• Beliefs, Opinions, and Expectations as a Resource of Re-Shaping Societies by Stepanova, Elena A. (2022) - This subject is obviously related to an old philosophical problem of the primacy of being over consciousness or vice versa, which basically determines quite a number of social research concepts. The authors intend to understand, evaluate, describe, and analyze the “degree of involvement, whose cessation leads to behavioral deviation caused by an increased self-inflicted sense of social loneliness.” Keywords: article; authors; beliefs; level; life; people; research; russian; study
• Moral Choice and the Concept of Evil in Military Narratives of Orthodox Christians by Menshikov, Andrey S. (2022) - 2 Numerous publications on this topic include, for example, Ot Soldata do Generala: Vospominaniia o Voine [From Soldier to General: Memories of the War] (Vols. 1–18) (2003–2016). KEYWORDS Orthodox Christianity, Russian Orthodox Church, personal narratives, lived religion, militant piety, notion of evil, evil and violence, Orthodox Christian ethics, Orthodox Christian attitude to war, sacred war, cosmic war, Christian ethical principles of love and forgiveness ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The research is supported by the grant of the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 20-18-00240). [Prayer About the Invasion of Foes Sung in the Russian Orthodox Church in the Days of the Patriotic War]. Keywords: accounts; believers; christian; church; e. p.; faith; god; love; orthodox; people; russian; trans; war; zobern
• Origins of Ethno-Religious Profiling: The Jewish Question and Police Surveillance in the Russian Empire in the 19th Century by Grigor'eva, Kseniya S. (2023) - Special surveillance of Jews did not emerge in Britain until the end of the 19th century, with the arrival of a massive wave of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe (mostly Polish and Russian Jews trying to make it to the USA). In order to prevent any forgery and abuse, the passports of merchants indicated which contract or commercial affairs they were issued for, “and so that such persons are not accompanied by more than two Jews under the guise of clerks and servants”, these passports also included the names and descriptions of such Jews (Svod zakonov, 1842, p. 51), etc. Keywords: case; century; documents; empire; european; federation; government; grigor’eva; groups; history; information; jews; moscow; new; police; population; practices; profiling; russian; societies; society; state; surveillance; vol
• Religious Education in Russia: Between Methodological Neutrality and Theological Partiality by Stepanova, Elena A. (2018) - As a result, these four religions, with Christianity limited to the Orthodox denomination, were officially recognised as so-called “traditional” religions of Russia that later shaped the system of Religious Education in state schools (Blinkova & Vermeer, 2018). Today, however, Religious Education is becoming increasingly important, with its widespread introduction in state schools and new efforts to re-ideologise it by drawing on so- called traditional religions in Russia, namely, Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism. Keywords: church; education; orthodox; religion; russian; soviet; state
• Contradictions in the Development of the Welfare Non-Profit Sector in Russia by Borodkina, Olga I.; Starshinova, Alevtina V.; Borodkin, Maksim A. (2023) - This leads to them not being fully apt in playing the role of service providers efficiently, in becoming relevant competitors of state social services organizations, in meeting the requirements of regional standards for service delivery as well as those for competitive selection of service providers. In 2019–2020, 35 interviews were conducted with heads and employees of social services organizations in 15 regions of Russia. Keywords: authorities; citizens; development; government; ngos; npos; organizations; policy; profit; public; russian; sector; services; social; society; state; welfare
• Personal Transformation as a Life-Long Trajectory by Stepanova, Elena A. (2023) - Eventually, the finitude of our life should not allow us to forget that, as the authors of the current issue note “we are part of a larger universe, and that human life does not stand alone but is closely connected to nature and its environment”. The authors study the pre-, during, and post stages of the Manggarai ethnic’s burial ceremony, which has social (an attempt to maintain a sense of kinship and family unity), religious (Manggarai ethnic belief in the human soul), philosophical (the view that human life does not stop after death), and cosmological (humans as part of a larger universe) meanings. Keywords: article; authors; life; russian; soc; theory
• The Formation of National Identity in Contemporary Russia by Skvortsov, Nikolay (2017) - Understanding that the transition to the paradigm of Russian national identity derived from civic nationhood is a complex and lengthy process, the author develops a multi-level model of the formation of Russian national identity comprised of (1) the basic level of cultural diversity, (2) the middle level of solidarity in the overcoming of cultural differences on the basis *The version of this article in Russian under the title “Formirovanie nacional’noj identichnosti v sovremennoj Rossii [Formation of national identity in contemporary Russia] (2016) has appeared in the journal Gumanitarii Yuga Rossii This article primarily concerns those aspects of the problem of national identity that are linked to the relationship between ethnicity and nationality in the context of an analysis of Russian national identity. Keywords: formation; identity; nation; russian; soviet; state; union
• Problems and Prospects of the Online Model for Exporting Russian Education in the Context of Digital Inequality by Rostovskaya, Tamara K.; Skorobogatova, Vera I.; Kholina, Veronika N. (2023) - Furthermore, as digitalization takes center stage within Russian universities, fostering both educational and psychological well-being for digital students, it’s notable that certain countries, like China, have extended their reliance on remote learning due to ongoing quarantine measures, as evidenced by their continued adoption of distance learning throughout the 2022–2023 academic year. In 2022, however, the growth of Russian educational exports was hurdled by the sanctions imposed by Western countries, which resulted in severed humanitarian ties with “unfriendly nations,” transportation disruptions due to flight cancellations, financial obstacles in money transfers, social network restrictions, and a substantial information campaign (Rostovskaya & Skorobogatova, 2022, p. 107). Keywords: countries; development; digital; education; export; international; internet; learning; online; programs; rostovskaya; russian; skorobogatova; state; students; universities; university
• Inclusion Problems in the Russian General Education System by Soloveva, Tatiana S.; Sokolova, Veronika A. (2023) - KEYWORDS integration, inclusion, inclusive education, general education, perception stereotypes, educational policy © 2023 Since education plays an important role in the reproduction and/or transformation of social inequality and exclusion, inclusive education should be treated as an important component of a social inclusion strategy. Keywords: children; development; disabilities; education; federation; inclusion; needs; number; obrazovaniia; process; russian; school; state; students; system; teachers
• Factors Influencing Social Participation of Older People in Russia: Study of Practices of Delayed Ageing by Grigoryeva, Irina A.; Parfenova, Oksana A.; Vidiasova, Lyudmila A. (2024) - Increasing life expectancy, which is shaping multiple flexible and diverse ageing scenarios in the changing world, is leading to a shift in conventional age limits and their perceptions, as well as rapidly changing the perceptions of old age, ageing, the capabilities of older people, and their role in society. Our main research question is “What factors and how do they influence the social activity of older people in modern Russian society?” Keywords: activities; activity; ageing; communication; data; employment; group; health; informants; life; participation; people; research; respondents; russian; time; work; years
• Others as Security Threats: Securitizing Discourses, Social Magic, and the Bureaucratic Field by Grigor'eva, Kseniya S. (2024) - Descending “from top to bottom,” from https://changing-sp.com/ 432 Kseniya S. Grigor’eva the federal center to the regions along numerous bureaucratic chains, they generate a landslide of derivative securitizing legal acts at each new point of arrival: at the level of responsible ministries and departments, of regional and local authorities, of their subordinate organizations, and so on. The primary securitizing legal acts belonging to the key players in the political field necessarily generated derivative securitizing legal acts, which in turn generated new derivative securitizing legal acts, etc., constantly reproducing the same securitizing performative. Keywords: activities; acts; case; discourses; emergency; executors; ideology; lazio; migration; nomad; performative; plan; practices; professionals; regional; roma; russian; securitization; securitizing; security; state; terrorism
• Sociology of Russophilia in Azerbaijan: A Classification for Russophile Social Groups by Jabarov, Jahandar (2024) - The inclination to foster Russian culture and establish Russian-speaking environments in Azerbaijan is accompanied by the challenge of effective communication in the Azerbaijani language Acceptance of Russian Perspectives Alignment with Russia’s historical, political, and ideological perspectives Sentiments towards the USSR Expressing admiration for the Soviet Union, reflecting nostalgia for a bygone era Geopolitical Orientations Some individuals exhibit anti-American sentiments, while others hold Europhobic views Table 3 succinctly organizes the key sociological dimensions and their corresponding characteristics within Ethnic Russian group in Azerbaijan. The differentiation of pro-Russian groups is important for several reasons. Keywords: azerbaijan; characteristics; context; dimensions; education; group; identity; individuals; iranophiles; language; russian; russophilia; sentiments; soviet; table; theory; ussr
• Institutional Factors in Reproductive Decision-Making Among Large Families in Russia by Rostovskaya, Tamara K.; Kuchmaeva, Oksana V.; Vasilieva, Ekaterina N. (2024) - Accepted 2 May 2024 Published online 21 July 2024 ARTICLE IN THE SPECIAL SECTION Institutional Factors in Reproductive Decision- Making Among Large Families in Russia Tamara K. Rostovskaya Institute for Demographic Research—Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia Oksana V. Kuchmaeva Institute for Demographic Research—Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Ekaterina N. Vasilieva Institute for Demographic Research—Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia ABSTRACT Amidst pressing global challenges and internal demographic threats, it is crucial to understand the institutional dynamics shaping the well- being of large families. We conducted 22 in-depth interviews with members of large families across 10 regions. Keywords: capital; children; e. v.; families; family; number; o. k.; oblast; parents; population; resources; russian; support; t. r.; trans
• Regional Differences in Life Expectancy in Russia Through the Lens of Epidemiological Transition by Ivanova, Alla E.; Semyonova, Victoria G.; Sabgayda, Tamara P.; Polyanskaya, Elena V. (2024) - Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions are the exception to the rule, their low SD in the area of well-being seems rather an exception, registered in only four regions (St. Petersburg, Sevastopol, Moscow Oblast, and Leningrad Oblast), while more than 40% of the area have high SD from these vague causes. Females High Sakha (Yakutia), Tomsk Oblast, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Novosibirsk Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast Udmurt Republic, Tula Oblast, Astrakhan Oblast Medium Kaliningrad Oblast, Kostroma Oblast Perm Krai, Bryansk Oblast, Vologda Oblast, Omsk Oblast, Vladimir Oblast, Kaluga Oblast, Kirov Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, Oryol Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Yaroslavl Oblast Bashkortostan Low Crimea, Kursk Oblast Lipetsk Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Rostov Oblast, Samara Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Smolensk Oblast, Tyumen Oblast (without AO) Changing Societies & Personalities, 2024, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. Keywords: aad; area; causes; diseases; expectancy; females; high; krai; life; low; males; mortality; novgorod oblast; oblast; regions; russian; transition
• University’s Information Policy in a Mediatized Reality: Youth as the Main Target Audience by Gureeva, Anna N. (2024) - Conciseness and modern visual design are other important components of media communication between universities and the youth because it greatly increases the chances that such content will be shared on social media, going “viral.” The research question that is particularly relevant to the academic community and that has guided the purpose of this paper is to identify and systematize the features of young people as the target audience of university media communications. Keywords: audiences; communication; content; digital; education; information; media; mediatization; people; policy; research; russian; state; students; target; trans; universities; university; youth
• Social Profile of Mothers Raising Children With Disabilities: A Survey in Rural and Small-Town Russia by Naberushkina, Elmira K.; Fomina, Olga E.; Levshits, Anna D.; Knyazkova, Ekaterina A. (2024) - Safiullina and Morozova (2020) argue that families with disabled children typically experience lower material well-being compared to those without such children, primarily because one parent, typically the mother, dedicates herself entirely to caregiving. The situation becomes even worse when it comes to the reproductive rights of disabled children and the mothers of such children. Keywords: children; disabilities; disability; education; families; family; fomina; mothers; parents; respondents; russian; state; support; women
• Trial of Memory: Legal Regulation as a Tool of Memory Politics in Contemporary Russia by Golovashina, Oksana V. (2024) - KEYWORDS politics of memory, historical memory, commemorative legislation, order of time, memory on the network, regulatory regulation, rehabilitation of Nazism © 2024 Oksana V. Golovashina ovgolovashina@mail.ru https://changing-sp.com/ mailto:ovgolovashina@mail.ru 400 Oksana V. Golovashina Introduction The use of legal regulations in memory politics has a rich history. [Mythologized past as part of historical memory]. Keywords: actions; article; enforcement; european; golovashina; history; law; laws; life; memory; online; past; politics; regiment; russian; state; time; victory; war; website
• Representations of Trust and Distrust in Financial Institutions in Russian Regional Speech Culture by Smyslova, Olga Yu.; Linchenko, Andrei A. (2024) - Conclusion Through the analysis of interview content and underlying meanings, we not only identify key trends in trust levels toward financial institutions in Lipetsk Oblast but also uncover nuances in lexicon usage, highlighting generational, gender-related, and urban-rural differences. Smyslova Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (Lipetsk Branch) Andrei A. Linchenko Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (Lipetsk Branch); Lipetsk State Technical University ABSTRACT The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the representation of trust and distrust in financial institutions in the language and speech culture of the Russian province. Keywords: 1990s; analysis; culture; distrust; financial; groups; institutions; interviews; language; level; residents; russian; social; speech; state; trust
• Demographic Processes in the Context of Demographic Well-Being by Rostovskaya, Tamara K. (2024) - This suggests that demographic sustainability is a primary objective of state demographic policy, particularly in nations experiencing depopulation. On the macro level, that is, on the level of a country or territory (region, area), demographic well-being can be seen as the harmonious interaction between quantitative and qualitative indicators of demographic development over at least a five-year period (Ryazantsev & Miryazov, 2021). Keywords: children; families; life; population; rostovskaya; russian; social
• Strategies for Forming the Image of Islam/Muslims in the Media Discourse by Pronina, Tatyana S.; Slivkina, Varvara A. (2025) - (Iushkovskaia, 2015; Trans. by V. S.) Every year about 1.5 million migrants from Uzbekistan come to Saint Petersburg, 5 thousand Uzbeks study at universities in the so-called Northern Capital. Media of Saint Petersburg In urban media, the analyzed news discourse is grouped around several storylines: “European migration crisis,” “risk zone,” and “preventive work with Muslim migrants.” Keywords: analysis; articles; city; discourse; events; fontanka.ru; image; islam; media; migrants; migration; muslims; news; number; organization; people; petersburg; religion; russian; saint; saint petersburg; terrorist; trans; v. s.
• Openness and Closedness: Ethnic Strategies of Indigenous Minorities in Virtuality vs. Reality by Belorussova, Svetlana Yu. (2025) - For example, “in open groups, the stronger the interconnections within an ESM-based group are, the more ideas are being generated” reflects bridging (van Osch & Bulgurcu, 2020, p. 921), while “in closed groups, the closer the interconnections in an ESM-based group are, the more ideas are being generated within the group” reflects bonding. They show how virtual environments are not merely reflective of real-life processes but actively influence cultural interactions, social strategies, and the negotiation of group identity. Keywords: belorussova; besermyans; closedness; communities; community; digital; group; identity; nagaybak; online; open; openness; people; russian; soyots; spaces; trans; tubalars
• Thematic Horizons of Regional Contemporary Art Exhibitions: Existential Values, Micro- and Macro-History, Humanistic Ideals by Kochukhova, Elena S.; Vakhrusheva, Evgenia A. (2025) - Standardized surveys of visitors to contemporary art exhibitions in Yekaterinburg, Perm, and Nizhny Novgorod reveal the following demographic data: 65% of the audience are women, and 74% of all visitors are under 35 years old. The interdisciplinary project SEANS [SEANCE] was described as “an experiment involving a psychotherapeutic performance format,” in which the main subject of the performance “becomes the viewer, who, for an hour, enters the space of contemporary art exhibitions and, armed with an interactive audio guide, moves from hall to hall, performing various actions” (Ural’skii filial Pushkinskogo muzeia, 2020; Trans. Keywords: announcements; art; audience; contemporary; exhibition; galleries; gallery; history; museum; russian; space; study; themes; ural; values; yekaterinburg
• Abkhaz and Abazin Communities in Cyberspace by Ayba, Tamara G. (2025) - The introduction of Abaza language video lessons has significantly increased interest in learning the language. The issue of preserving traditional languages remains a deeply troubling concern. Keywords: abaza; abazins; abkhaz; alashara; ayba; communities; community; culture; facebook; groups; identity; instagram; language; online; people; russian; traditions
• Jennifer Keating (2022). On Arid Ground. Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia. Oxford University Press by Menshikov, Andrey S. (2024) - The broader framework of imperial projects involved efforts to “civilize” local populations, to introduce modern technological and scientific advancements into regional economies, and to channel local natural resources into global markets, thus positioning the empire as a transformative force. Traditional histories of imperial railroad construction typically emphasize planning, implementation, and subsequent utilization, framing railroads as symbols of imperial connectivity, which mark the empire’s https://changing-sp.com/ mailto:andrey.menshikov@ucentralasia.org 1074 Andrey S. Menshikov capacity to mobilize and transport military and economic resources. Keywords: asia; central; keating; russian
• The Societal Perception and Challenges of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Russian and Chinese Megacities: A Comparative Study by Wang, Xu; Petrov, Alexander V.; Baynova, Maria S.; Petrova, Ariadna A.; Gorkovaya, Olga P. (2025) - An additional 18.7% of respondents proposed other context-specific recommendations, further illustrating the complexity and diversity of strategies required to improve urban waste management (Figure 6). As social entrepreneurship gains momentum, it could emerge as a significant driver of sustainable urban waste management. Keywords: awareness; challenges; china; collection; environmental; management; msw; participation; policy; public; respondents; russian; sorting; study; support; urban; waste; waste collection; waste management; youth
• Efforts to Preserve Traditional Values Through Regional Cultural Policies: A Case Study of Russia’s Siberian Federal District by Matveeva, Elena V.; Shilova, Anna E.; Sat, Aliya V. (2025) - Cultural policy is seen as a means to promote and disseminate culture (Pronin, 2015, 75) and to preserve cultural values in market conditions (Karpova & Mikhina, 2015). Discussion Theories of cultural values continue to play a significant role in the theoretical understanding of traditional values. Keywords: acts; altai; culture; federal; federation; identity; krai; number; oblast; regions; republic; russian; state; values
• Forced Oblivion: Cancel Culture and Historical Identity by Golovashina, Oksana V.; Batishchev, Roman Yu. (2025) - (Konakov, 2024, p. 53; Trans. by O. G. & R. B.) KEYWORDS cancel culture, historical identity, identity, historical memory, oblivion, historical consciousness ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Furthermore, the prevailing structure of historical memory regarding many events makes it impossible to fully separate them from their context. Keywords: cancel; canceling; context; culture; events; forgetting; framework; history; identity; language; memory; past; politics; russian; soviet; trans; war
• University Students: Connection between Representations of Stress and Coping Strategies by Kuvaeva, Irina; Achan, Nadejda; Lozovskaya, Ksenia (2017) - Table 1 demonstrates these indexes of stress concept. Dependence of stress concept and coping strategies on the culture Dependent variables Cultural groups Chi- square testRussian (n=98) Turkish (n=70) Chinese (n=58) Degree of differentiation/ integration 146.01 89.03 80.65 50.85*** Sensory-emotional modality 147.61 87.15 80.17 59.17*** Verbal-semantic modality 132.30 93.99 98.75 20.18*** Visual modality 119.95 109.70 100.76 3.77 Stress causes 117.36 127.96 82.13 18.45*** Cognitive appraisal and immediate effects 138.04 79.71 106.70 39.90*** Long-term effects 134.28 99.07 88.76 24.77*** Process of development 128.72 92.96 106.44 15.46*** Problem solving 126.74 108.96 89.60 12.03** Working hard and achieve 128.51 102.12 95.16 11.93** Social action 77.82 119.10 163.86 64.74*** Professional help 88.70 122.81 141.54 27.70*** Ignoring 106.97 127.28 101.52 6.04** Self-absorption 122.74 111.98 92.98 7.64* Positive focus 118.74 121.32 88.12 10.19** Active leisure 118.06 107.65 106.75 1.56 Anxiety 142.87 101.05 70.93 46.97*** 279Changing Societies & Personalities, 2017 Vol. 1, No. 3 Miracles 127.57 113.08 82.89 17.02*** Not coping 117.29 118.46 94.36 5.52 Tension reduction 121.07 94.66 117.91 7.53* Self-accusation 131.91 98.97 93.11 17.05*** Spiritual support 92.95 165.80 77.47 73.50*** Social support 122.07 106.35 101.25 4.49 Friends 104.02 118.52 117.93 2.70 Feeling of belonging 115.24 97.59 124.56 5.88 Relax 109.72 115.69 111.36 0.36 *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001 Table 3. Keywords: chinese; concept; coping; culture; modality; russian; strategies; stress; students; support; turkish
• Dichotomy of the Basic Aspects of the Image of Power in Russia: Traditional and Modern Models by Romanovich, Nelly A. (2019) - Hierarchy The hierarchy of power is “a system of consistent subordination of the structural units of social power from the lower to the higher level” (Kravchenko, 2004, p. 131). 139–155 http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/csp.2019.3.2.067 ARTICLE Dichotomy of the Basic Aspects of the Image of Power in Russia: Traditional and Modern Models Nelly A. Romanovich Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANERA), Voronezh Branch, Voronezh, Russia ABSTRACT Social and cultural characteristics of any country form a certain image of power in the minds of its representatives. Keywords: autocracy; centralization; hierarchy; idea; image; model; people; power; russian; society; state

• The Norwegian Political Discourse on Prohibiting Muslim Garments. An Analysis of Four Cases in the Period 2008–2018 by Andreassen, Bengt-Ove (2020) - The conclusion was that such a prohibition could not be effectuated in Norwegian schools (The Royal Ministry of Law and Police, Law Division, 2010). In a press release on March 22, 2010, Minister of Education Halvorsen stated that this meant that the government would not take any further measures to prohibit the hijab in Norwegian schools: Keywords: debate; directorate; education; hijab; islam; law; ministry; muslims; niqab; norway; norwegian; police; public; religion; rights; state; stortinget; uniform
• The Uzbek National Tradition in the Pedagogical Practices of Adult Educators by Ismagilova, Fairuza S.; Maltsev, Aleksey V.; Sattarov, Erkinbai N. (2020) - This study aims to investigate whether and to what extent the national context affects teaching methods, in particular the interactive methods, which Uzbek professors use for training the civil service talent pool. In-basket technique 21 77.8 ±16,8 2 Internship 21 77.8 ±16,8 2 Distance learning 21 77.8 ±16,8 2 Buddying 20 74.1 ±17,7 2 Rotation 18 66.7 ±19,0 2 Coaching 18 66.7 ±19,0 3 Shadowing 10 37.0 ±19,5 3 Metaphorical role-play 8 29.6 ±18,4 The determination of the confidence interval for the choice of teaching methods allowed us to distinguish three groups: 1 – the most preferred methods, 2 – the medium preferred, and 3 – the least preferred (Table 6). Keywords: adult; analysis; content; criteria; education; factor; learning; methods; national; professors; role; students; teaching; training; uzbekistan
• Forest in the Context of Social Change: Traditional Orientation and Forest Mystification in a Nigerian Forest-Reserve Setting by Ibrahim, Fausat Motunrayo; Osikabor, Benson; Olatunji, Bolanle Tawakalitu; Ogunwale, Grace Oluwatobi; Aluko, Olawale Julius (2021) - The results indicate that forest mystification is still huge and connected with orientations towards ageing and cultural enthusiasm. KEYWORDS social change, forest mystification, Africa, Yorùbá, traditional orientation, age, culture, religion, gender https://changing-sp.com/ Changing Societies & Personalities, 2021, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. Keywords: age; attitude; change; culture; education; forest; forest mystification; gender; mean; mystification; orientation; people; population; religion; respondents; traditional; women; yorùbá
• Factors Determining Child Labor: Empirical Evidence from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan by Sikandar, Sikandar; Panezai, Sanaullah; Saqib, Shahab E.; Muhammad, Said; Bilal, Bilal; Khan, Imran (2022) - Many NGOs like CARE India, Child Rights and You, Global March Against Child Labor, etc., have been working to eradicate child labor in India 11 Ahmed et al. No Author, year Country/ region of the study Publication Type Depended Variable Independent Variables Findings 12 Latif et al. (2018) Pakistan Journal article Prevalence of child labor in different sectors Occupational sectors Child labor is present in four major sectors namely mechanical, agricultural, industry and general labor. Keywords: adult; age; child; child labor; children; education; family; household; income; labor; number; pakistan; parents; size; study
• Dhingra, P. (2021). Hyper Education. Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough. NYU Press. by Giray, Louie G.; Edem, Jelomil A. (2022) - In the book, the author shows how Asian American parents make their children improve academically through hyper education, referring to the practice of extending education through privatized, extracurricular learning. Divided into three Received 22 November 2021 © 2022 Louie Giray, Jelomil Edem Published online 11 April 2022 jelomiledem.00@gmail.com lggiray@pup.edu.ph https://changing-sp.com/ 218 Louie Giray, Jelomil Edem parts, this well-researched book talks about the different sides of hyper education and how it becomes a habit for Asian American parents to use it as part of their parenting style. Keywords: american; children; education; parents
• Non-Formal Education as a Resource of Social Inclusion: Intergenerational Approach by Kicherova, Marina N.; Efimova, Galina Z.; Gertsen, Svetlana M. (2022) - 823–840 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2022.6.4.205 Received 28 March 2022 © 2022 Marina N. Kicherova, Galina Z. Efimova, Accepted 31 October 2022 Svetlana M. Gertsen Published online 30 December 2022 m.n.kicherova@utmn.ru g.z.efimova@utmn.ru s.m.gercen@utmn.ru ARTICLE Non-Formal Education as a Resource of Social Inclusion: Intergenerational Approach Marina N. Kicherova, Galina Z. Efimova, Svetlana M. Gertsen University of Tyumen, Russia ABSTRACT This article contributes to a better understanding of theoretical models and empirical evidence revealing the impact of social inclusion of non-formal education on professional and personal development in the context of five generations. Due to the fact that all generations use non-formal education, but its contribution to social inclusion differs from generation to generation, our research questions are as following: What is the impact of non-formal education on social inclusion? Keywords: average; development; education; generation; inclusion; lack; learning; professional; research; sample; skills; study; time; training
• Social and Economic Factors of Violence Against Women in the South of Moldova: Identification, Estimation, and Mechanisms of Elimination by Bazueva, Elena V. (2022) - 610–633 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2022.6.3.192 Received 28 May 2022 © 2022 Elena V. Bazueva Accepted 27 August 2022 bazueva.l@mail.ru Published online 10 October 2022 ARTICLE Social and Economic Factors of Violence Against Women in the South of Moldova: Identification, Estimation, and Mechanisms of Elimination Elena V. Bazueva Perm State University, Perm, Russia Vologda Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vologda, Russia ABSTRACT A surge in violence against women requires a better understanding of its causes and factors, which is the problem that this study seeks to address. The legislation also guarantees equal opportunities for women and men in the realization of their human capital on the national labor market, which refers both to the ability to engage in entrepreneurship and to the entitlement to equal pay for equal work (Women, Business and the Law, 2020). Keywords: development; economic; education; equality; factors; gagauzia; gender; gender equality; ipv; level; moldova; national; norms; rights; system; victims; village; violence; women
• Short Learning Programmes for Skills Development Beyond COVID-19 by Kibirige, Israel (2022) - Before COVID-19 SLPs were not inclusive because they were considered a luxury, but during the pandemic, it became necessary to learn the NN to meet the demand of the workplace. This paper aims to describe what short learning programmes (SLPs) are, why institutions offer them and examine why individuals participate in SLPs. Keywords: africa; author; covid-19; development; education; individuals; institutions; journal; knowledge; learning; new; pandemic; sen; skills; slps; south; students; university
• The Impact of Digital Divide on Household Participation in Risky Financial Investments: Evidence From China by Kefeng, Yuan; Xiaoxia, Zhang; Nedospasova, Olga P. (2023) - Data Processing and Empirical Analysis Data Sources To study the impact of digital divide on household risky financial investment requires comprehensive micro-survey data. The difference of digital divide between the young and the old is reflected in the participation probability of household risky financial investment, showing the difference of investment income caused by digital divide between the generations of residents. Keywords: access; authors; china; chinese; data; digital; divide; education; household; impact; information; internet; investment; model; participation; residents
• Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology in Light of Classical Persian Literature by Ismagilova, Fayruza S.; Khamenehei, Nazyar (2023) - While some children seek the power to choose a bold approach that leads to their recognition, other children seem to meditate on their weaknesses and try to express them in different ways. The authors put forward the suggestion that modern psychological approaches, especially those dealing with education of children, might be rooted in the teachings of Iranian mystics. Keywords: abu; adler; child; development; education; inferiority; life; literature; people; persian; personality; psychology
• Religious Education: Meeting and Countering Changes, – Changing and Standing Still by Jensen, Tim (2017) - Alternatives to Confessional RE: Ethics, Ethics and Values, Philosophy, et al As indicated above: religious pluralism(s), including non-religion and atheism, individualism, secularisation and the human rights regime all have made it necessary for states having and supporting a confessional RE-system to include into the system an opt-out possibility, a possibility at times limited or supplemented by the offering of a voluntary or compulsory alternative to confessional RE. The two kind of framings are then subdivided into, on the one hand, (a) narrative RE, dogma-related RE, and life world-related RE, and, on the other hand (b) historical RE, sociological RE, and systematic- comparative RE.11 With reference to Frank’s analysis and classification of ‘life-world-related RE’ as a kind of religious RE, a closer look at non- confessional RE from the point of view of a study-of-religions scholar 11 See, inter alia, Frank 2010, and 2015; Frank & Bochinger 2008. Keywords: changes; education; european; jensen; kind; kjeldsen; learning; religion; school; society; state; study; teaching; und; world
• The Politics and Pedagogy of Religion Education: Policies, Syllabi and Future Prospects by Tayob, Abdulkader (2018) - His model is deeply rooted in the European history of religions, but may be an inspiration for thinking about religion in public life in general. In contrast, RE uses the category of religion to distance itself from this position, arguing that religions are comparable, and that they have as many common elements and functions as they have differences. Keywords: education; life; papers; religion; south; subject; values
• English Religious Education: Developments, Identity, and Diversity by Barnes, L. Philip (2018) - The influence of phenomenological religious education in England reached its peak in 1985 when an official British Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups, chaired by Lord Swann, concluded that a non-dogmatic, non-denominational, https://changing-sp.com/ 236 L. Philip Barnes phenomenological approach to religious education provided the “best and only means of enabling all pupils, from whatever religious background, to understand the nature of religious belief, the religious dimension of human experience and the plurality of faiths in contemporary Britain” (Swann, 1985, p. 518). If classroom experience revealed that phenomenological religious education was less effective in challenging racism and religious intolerance than its first advocates had anticipated, this did not lead religious educators, for the most part, to question either the potential of religious education in this area or phenomenology’s underlying Liberal Protestant philosophical and theological commitments. Keywords: approach; beliefs; development; education; pupils; religion; schools; spiritual
• Religious Education in India: Debates and Experiences by Sethi, Manisha (2018) - In this paper, I attempt to chart out a tentative history of religious education in India focusing broadly on debates and policies on religious instruction in schools. There are two reasons for this: firstly, I realise that a large number of panellists and participants at this conference were engaged with either teaching, or studying religious education (henceforth RE) in schools, whether its curricula or pedagogy; and secondly, how the universities understood or incorporated – or even expelled – RE in India could not be disentangled from the policies affecting RE in schools. Keywords: commission; committee; education; government; india; instruction; macaulay; religion; report; schools; state
• Religious Education Syllabuses for Secondary School Teachers in Zambia: Catholic Missionaries’ Contributions by Mwale, Nelly (2018) - This inquiry is deemed significant to those involved in RE teacher education as the study was an indirect response to the 2013 curriculum reforms which called for study areas in the teacher education curriculum to be linked to school curriculum by providing an understanding of how RE teachers were being trained (Curriculum Development Centre, 2012, p. 50). This is because the discourse on RE syllabuses in Zambia has been engrossed with the subject at the primary and secondary levels of the education system resulting in a neglect of what was obtained in teacher education. Keywords: education; religions; syllabus; teacher; zambia
• Return Migration From Russia to Kyrgyzstan: Dynamics, Causes, and Structure by Osadchaya, Galina I.; Yudina, Tatyana N.; Volkova, Olga A.; Kireev, Egor Yu. (2023) - The findings indicate that return migration is voluntary and spontaneous. The official estimate of the scope of return migration, as well as the prospects of labor migration to Russia after February 24th, 2022 and the imposition of anti-Russian sanctions, remains unclear. Keywords: decision; education; kyrgyzstan; labor; migrants; migration; research; respondents; return; return migration; returning; russia; service; work
• Inter-Religious Cooperation and its Challenges in Schools and Public Life in South Africa by Bhayat, Ahmed (2018) - One may, therefore, conclude that Religion Education, including Religion Studies, can be regarded as playing a vital and transformative role in promoting the importance of values of dignity and respect, which can contribute towards creating a space for inter-religious cooperation to take place in a diverse nation like South Africa. Interreligious Cooperation and its Challenges Indeed, the South African Schools Act and National Policy on Religion and Education ensures that public schools establish an open and inclusive environment that nurtures inter-religious cooperation amongst learners and teachers. Keywords: education; religion; schools
• Religion Education and Critical Education: The Case of Barnato Park High School in South Africa by Choshi, Tlou Russell (2018) - I will first define the concepts of critical education and religion education in South Africa, and then move onto providing a brief historical background of the school. KEYWORDS religion education, critical education, Christian ethos, learners, Barnato Park High School Introduction The question on if there is a space for religion education and, more specifically, a critical pedagogical approach to teaching the subject in a public school that promotes a religious character is important to reflect on considering the current context of a post-apartheid South African government that aims to build an open and inclusive diverse nation. Keywords: education; high; school
• A Case Against the Policy Mandating Vertically-Aligned Degrees in Philippine Graduate Education by Giray, Louie (2023) - Negative Repercussions to Students, Universities, and Societies The implementation of mandatory vertically-aligned degrees in Philippine higher education has raised concerns about the negative repercussions it could have on students, universities, and societies. 11–30 21 Table 3 Summary of Issues on the Negative Repercussions to Students, Universities, and Societies Issue Explanation Students are dehumanized and alienated This policy reduces students to mere pawns in the education system, depriving them of informed choice and individuality. Keywords: academic; administrators; autonomy; degrees; education; freedom; graduate; individuals; knowledge; policy; societies; students; universities; university
• Siyakholwa – We Believe: A Case Study on the Mediatisation of Religion Education and Religious Pluralism by Scharnick-Udemans, Lee (2018) - Viewed in light of a constitutional commitment to religious pluralism and a national recognition of the educational and social value of Religion Education, the SABC through programmes such as Siyakholwa has been at the forefront of the mediatisation of religious pluralism in the post 1994 state. Finally, the ways in which Siyakholwa mediatises and affirms the constitutional commitment to religious pluralism that is promulgated as a core constituent of Religion Education will be discussed. Keywords: education; pluralism; policy; religion; siyakholwa; south
• Reflecting on the Teaching of Islam in Religious Education Teacher Education Programme at the University of Zambia by Chita, Joseph (2018) - Islam, religious education, teacher education, teaching model, university education Introduction This paper reflects on how Islam was taught in a public university as part of the teacher education programme for Religious Education (RE) in Zambia’s secondary schools. This is because since its inception, the teaching of Islam in teacher education had not been evaluated despite concerns during student teacher observations that most of them had avoided covering topics on Islam. Keywords: education; islam; studies; teachers; teaching; zambia
• School Management and Leadership Education for Multi-Religious Schools by Nthontho, Maitumeleng A. (2018) - That is, South African universities should consider training school principals on the use of transformative mediation as a strategy they can use to resolve conflicts and handle disputes in schools as it holds potential benefits for fields such as education. 292–304 293 Introduction In post-apartheid South African schools, the implementation of democratic policies poses serious challenges for school principals, especially in terms of their leadership roles (Hallinger, 2010). Keywords: education; learners; observances; policy; principals; religion; research; school; south; study
• Editor’s Note by Stepanova, Elena A. (2018) - BRICS as the most advanced of the international organizations of the Global South begins to play increasingly important role in the development of higher education. In addition, he analyzes the role of BRICS countries in the light of articulating the interests of Global South. Keywords: countries; education; global; south
• BRICS and Global South: Towards Multilateral Educational Collaboration by Khomyakov, Maxim B. (2018) - BRICS countries, however, had (and still have) very different opinions on free trade, security, role of existing global governance institutions etc. BRICS engagement with Global South for promoting South-South cooperation seems to be another powerful imaginary, which holds BRICS countries together. Keywords: academic; brics; brics countries; collaboration; countries; development; education; global; institutions; modernity; national; new; rankings; south; students; universities; university; world
• Higher Education, Development, and Inequality in Brazil and South Africa by de Oliveira Barbosa, Maria Lígia; Pires, André; Dwyer, Tom (2018) - At the same time, women are now the majority of higher education students but enroll in courses that lead them into the lower paid occupations. In this regard, the issue of access to higher education institutions remains the key mechanism by which to forge a new order (Akoojee & Nkomo, 2008, p. 390). Keywords: access; africa; barbosa; brazil; brazilian; countries; courses; data; education; education system; institutions; policies; research; south; south africa; students; superior; system; universities; university
• Development of Cooperation in Higher Education in BRICS Countries by Li, Yuyun (2018) - Under this framework, efforts are made to promote the sustainable development of education, actively contribute the “BRICS Solution” to the world, enhance the influence and increase the benefit of BRICS higher education cooperation, create an open and diverse partnership network in educational development, increase accessibility for more developing countries to take the “fast train” and “free ride” of BRICS education development, and lead and promote the development of quality fair education around the world. Under this framework, efforts are made to promote the sustainable development of education, actively contribute the “BRICS Solution” to the world, enhance the influence and increase the benefit of BRICS higher education cooperation, create an open and diverse partnership network in educational development, increase accessibility for more developing countries to take the “fast train” and “free ride” of BRICS education development, and lead and promote the development of quality fair education around the world. Keywords: brics; brics countries; brics education; cooperation; countries; development; education; education cooperation; students; university
• Leadership in Technical Fields Through a Gender Lens by Oblova, Irina S. (2024) - In the second part, women leaders taking part in the professional workshop programme for engineers held in the Leningrad Oblast on the Day of the Metallurgist in 2023, along with female heads of technical departments at Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University in the 2022–2023 academic year, were interviewed to analyze perceptions of women holding managerial posts in the mineral resource sector to identify the drivers of women’s career growth in STEM, along with their suggestions of how to advance and increase the number of women leaders in technical fields. Table 1 Participation Percentage of Women Among Academic Staff in STEM in Russia and the EU in 2019 Academic staff Proportion of women in academia (%), n = 100 Russia EU-28 Researchers 39.6 29.0 Full professors 6.0 18.0 PhD 45.0 47.9 Academicians 9.4 5.1 Note. Keywords: authors; career; data; development; education; european; female; fields; gender; girls; leadership; management; mining; research; russia; source; statistics; stem; students; table; technical; university; women
• Community Education and Resilience: Making Knowledge, Making Community by Kozar Rosulnik, Klara; Blažič, Mojca; Javrh, Petra; Ličen, Nives (2025) - Making Knowledge, Making Community Klara Kožar Rosulnik Slovenian Migration Institute, The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia Mojca Blažič University of Novo Mesto, Novo Mesto, Slovenia Petra Javrh Slovenian Institute for Adult Education, Ljubljana, Slovenia Nives Ličen University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia ABSTRACT This exploratory qualitative study focuses on the importance of community education in fostering community resilience. The research is grounded in a conceptual framework that encompasses resilience, well-being, and community education. Keywords: adult; adult education; community; community education; community resilience; education; interview; knowledge; programs; research; resilience; study
• Influence of Globalization on the Transformation of Kazakh Traditions and Culture: A Case Study of Southern Kazakhstan by Syzdykova, Makhpal; Abikenov, Zharkynbek; Abdiramanova, Aigul; Ilyassova, Elmira (2024) - First, we note a clear decrease in the popularity of traditional cultural values amid globalization. Prospects for further research include the analysis of the impact of globalization on traditional cultural values, the development of digital storytelling tools for the protection of cultural heritage, the study of the interaction of traditional and innovative cultural processes, and the development of strategies to preserve national identity in the face of globalization. Keywords: culture; development; digital; education; globalization; heritage; identity; information; journal; kazakhstan; national; people; societies; society; study; traditions; values
• Digital Age Pedagogy: How European and Asian Business School Students Perceive Competence-Oriented Education by Serafimova, Desislava; Jaroenwanit, Pensri; Phuensane, Pongsutti (2024) - This convergence suggests an emerging global consensus on the role of digital education in promoting lifelong learning. This perspective aligns with the European Commission’s initiatives to enhance digital education across member states. Keywords: approach; asian; balance; business; competencies; data; education; european; journal; key; learning; life; life balance; online; research; schools; set; students; study; technologies; thailand
• Social Financial Grants in Thailand: A Catalyst for Inclusive Development and Economic Stability by Zreik, Mohamad; Haron, Nazatul Faizah (2025) - 381–397 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2025.9.2.333 ARTICLE Social Financial Grants in Thailand: A Catalyst for Inclusive Development and Economic Stability Mohamad Zreik, Nazatul Faizah Haron Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), Terengganu, Malaysia ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of social financial grants in fostering inclusive development and economic stability in Thailand. Through a critical analysis of the Thai government’s policies and the involvement of international organizations, the paper highlights the challenges and successes of implementing social financial grants in a developing country context. Keywords: development; economic; education; effectiveness; funding; government; grants; impact; international; journal; poverty; program; social; thailand; welfare
• Factors Contributing to the Relatively Low Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship in Russia by Tovar-García, Edgar Demetrio (2025) - First, KEYWORDS gender gap, female entrepreneurship, religion, physical exercise, education, family roles, transition country https://changing-sp.com/ 220 Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García it represents the first robust quantitative study on the determinants of gender gaps in entrepreneurship in Russia. The determinants of entrepreneurship gender gaps: A cross-country analysis. Keywords: countries; education; entrepreneurship; female; gap; garcía; gender; journal; participation; research; russia; tovar; variables; women
• Without a Future: The Man-Making Project in Socialist Yugoslavia in the 1940–1980s by Lunkov, Alexander S. (2025) - Balkan idols: Religion and nationalism in Yugoslav states. Another example of a “Yugoslav artifact” in the collective consciousness of people in post-Yugoslav states is omladinske radne akcije Keywords: communist; country; culture; education; future; making; man; people; person; pioneer; policy; project; society; state; war; work; youth; yugoslavia
• Editor’s Note by Stepanova, Elena A. (2025) - According to the authors, the research aims to explore how the actors of community-based adult education connect community adult education to community resilience within their local environments. 305–310 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2025.9.2.329 EDITORIAL Editor’s Note The current issue of Changing Societies & Personalities discusses questions pertaining to undergoing transformations in value systems investigated from diverse perspectives, such as the impact of community education; the individual ability to blend and flexibly engage with different time horizons; the psychology of leadership; the factors of inclusive social development; the role of women in the local governments and civic services; dissemination of fake news and their consequences; contemporary art galleries as a special type of museum space; sociocultural factors of positive body image; etc. Klara Kožar Rosulnik, Mojca Blažič, Petra Javrh, and Nives Ličen in the ARTICLE Community Education and Resilience: Making Knowledge, Making Community state that the role of community education is defined by addressing a fundamental human need for belonging, connection, and transcendence. Keywords: article; authors; community; education; factors; leadership; study; women
• Education Projects for Sustainable Development: Evidence from Ural Federal University by Volkova, Marina V.; Stoffers, Jol; Kochetkov, Dmitry M. (2019) - 4 In 1996, the Vernadsky Fund established a scholarship awarded to environmental students and students of other majors dealing with sustainable development, and in 2004, scholarships for postgraduate and doctoral students were established (http://www.vernadsky.ru/projects-of-the-foundation/scholarships-named). KEYWORDS sustainable development, sustainable education, university-to-school projects, mental institutions, case study, Russia ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors wish to express their gratitude to anonymous reviewers, who made this paper much better. Keywords: case; development; doi; education; environmental; esd; institutions; project; research; students; study; sustainability; team; university; water; work
• Editor’s Note by Stepanova, Elena A. (2019) - Elena Kochukhova investigates new museum practices, such as art mediation, in her article Transformation of Museum Communication through Art Mediation: Mikhail Ilchenko’s article Discourse of Modernist Heritage and New Ways of Thinking about Socialist Urban Areas in Eastern Europe, addresses the issue of controversial attitudes towards socialist urban heritage. Keywords: art; education; russia; zambia
• Religion in Public Life: Rethinking the Visibility and Role of Religion as an Ethical Resource in the Transformation of the Higher Education Landscape in Post-1990 Zambia by Mwale, Nelly; Simuchimba, Melvin (2019) - Given the numerous typologies of private higher education and Christian higher education, the article focuses on Catholic university education for purposes of exemplifying religions’ engagement in university education. Although Catholic university education was established to widen access to university education, Church affiliated universities could only accommodate a small number of the students who qualified for tertiary education in their institutions (Hittenberger, 2004). Keywords: article; catholic; catholic church; catholic university; christian; church; development; education; education provision; provision; religion; universities; university education; zambia

• Apologia of Modernity by Martianov, Victor (2017) - In this context, the ideological genesis of political Modernity is evident from the crisis in Christian morality, which was caused by the birth and development of the capitalist world-system. The thesis of the axiological unity and institutional diversity of global Modernity is advanced in opposition to the concept of pluralist modernity as a rhetorically veiled civilisational approach. Keywords: capitalism; development; institutional; martianov; modernisation; modernity; project; societies; society; system; theories; time; values; world
• Cross-Cultural Analysis of Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship by Salis, Giorgia; Flegl, Martin (2021) - H6: A high level of Masculinity does not necessarily correspond to high gender gap in entrepreneurship H7: A country’s level of development is not relevant in affecting gender gap in entrepreneurship As proven by Rubio-Bañón and Esteban-Lloret (2016), the levels of Masculinity and of development of a country do not seem to be relevant when looking at the https://changing-sp.com/ 90 Giorgia Salis, Martin Flegl gender gap in entrepreneurship in different countries. In addition, the results also indicate that a lower level of gender gap is also observed in rather individualistic, pragmatic and risk-adverse cultures. Keywords: countries; development; entrepreneurship; gap; gender; gender gap; hdi; hofstede; level; lto; model; monitor; societies; variables; women
• Knowledge: From Ethical Category to Knowledge Capitalism by Kochetkov, Dmitry M.; Kochetkova, Irina A. (2021) - Knowledge capitalism along with the knowledge economy is a template for national policies (primarily, Western countries and “developed” Asia) starting with the reports of the OECD (1996) and the World Bank (1998), which consider education as an underestimated form of knowledge capital that will determine not only the future of the economy but also society as a whole (Guy Peters, 2012). KEYWORDS knowledge management; intellectual capital; knowledge economy; economics of scientific knowledge; Triple Helix; Quintuple Helix ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This paper has been supported by the RUDN University Strategic Academic Leadership Program. Keywords: capital; development; economic; economy; generation; growth; helix; human; innovation; knowledge; knowledge economy; knowledge generation; management; model; new; process; production; research; science; theory; university
• The Sharing Economy and Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development by Popov, Evgeny V.; Veretennikova, Anna Yu.; Kozinskaya, Kseniya М. (2022) - Wanyama (2014) investigates the vital role played by social entrepreneurship in achieving sustainable social development—in particular, in increasing wages. By adding the word “social” to the word “entrepreneur”, Schumpeter emphasizes that social entrepreneurship is not just “business as usual” but necessarily focuses on social development. Keywords: analysis; business; concept; development; economy; entrepreneurship; innovation; models; new; organizations; research; resources; sharing; sharing economy; social; society; sustainability; topic; usa
• Colonial Revolution and Liberatory War: From Communist to Post-Colonial Theory (Georgy Safarov, Mao Zedong and Frantz Fanon) by Bugrov, Konstantin D. (2021) - It was Safarov who put together a set of rather unsystematic Bolshevik/Comintern ideas on colonial revolution to develop a theory of anti-colonial peasant war (though it was never presented as a single theoretical construction, partly due to Safarov’s passionate style of arguing). He was among the most original thinkers who elaborated the concept of colonial revolution. Keywords: china; chinese; colonial; colonies; comintern; communist; concept; development; fanon; mao; national; peasant; plebeian; post; revolution; safarov; soviet; states; theory; thought; war
• Who Plans What for Whom Under the “Iron Law” of Megaprojects? The Discourse Analysis of the Belgrade Waterfront Project by Perić, Ana; Maruna, Marija; Nedović-Budić, Zorica (2022) - Methodological Approach The selected case for the analysis—Belgrade Waterfront, is referred to as the best practice example of urban development according to the political structures in power since 2012. With the decline of public support in such projects and a substantial need for private finances, the public-private partnerships flourished as an adequate mechanism for managing large urban regeneration projects in the 1990s. Keywords: analysis; authors; belgrade; belgrade waterfront; beograd; city; danas; development; discourse; law; megaproject; perić; planning; project; public; serbia; urban; vučić; waterfront
• Urban Identities in Russian Cities and the Prospects of Their “Smart” Development by Kostko, Natalya A.; Pecherkina, Irina F. (2021) - The study provides an overview of the contemporary approaches to the concept of “smart city”, and approaches to urban governance and city identity. Smart city 9 15 21 16 Khanty-Mansiysk 1. Keywords: cities; citizens; city; concept; development; future; governance; identity; people; residents; tobolsk; tyumen; urban
• The Mole of History Burrows His Way ever Forward and Upward by Stepanova, Elena A. (2022) - In the article, a sociological analysis of fears of young people under the conditions of digitalization of all spheres of social life is presented. Two hypotheses are put forward: (a) sharing economy and social entrepreneurship can be used as alternative socio-economic models for sustainable development of a society; (b) the use of digital technologies in projects of the sharing economy and social entrepreneurship stimulates sustainable development. Keywords: article; authors; development; factors; labor; people; social; world
• Seeking Ecology and Equity Along the Boise Greenbelt by Dixon, Megan (2022) - As the Visit Idaho webpage states (Boise River Greenbelt, n.d.), the greenbelt “links over 850 acres of parks and natural areas along the Boise River,” including a few large city parks and a county park where recreationalists typically start their “float” of the river in rafts or tubes (large tires). Having marked its 50-year anniversary in 2019, it has become “one of the most widely used amenities in the Treasure Valley” (Boise River Greenbelt, n.d.). Keywords: access; area; boise; boise greenbelt; boise river; city; development; flood; greenbelt; new; public; river; space; water
• Quasi-Development as an Illusion of Personal Growth by Kostromina, Svetlana N.; Makarova, Maria V. (2023) - However, it remains unclear whether personal development, which many people identify with the concept of personal growth, genuinely takes place in this case. Nevertheless, a relevant question arises: To what extent can the described changes be regarded as personal development? Keywords: activity; change; development; growth; individuals; lack; life; personality; phenomenon; psychological; psychology; quasi; respondents; self; study; thinking
• Sustainable Energy Transition in Russia and Ghana Within a Multi-Level Perspective by Siakwah, Pius; Ermolaeva, Yulia V.; Ermolaeva, Polina O.; Agyekum, Boadi (2023) - The idea of energy transition has become topical in development and sustainability discourses. Despite SET’s appeal and potential in explaining energy transition, researchers, policymakers, scientists, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across the spectrum have raised questions relating to sustainable energies transition both in the developed and developing world.1 Fukuyama (2002), Kaku (2008), Rifkin (2011), Toffler (1980), and Wallerstein et al. (2013) have written about the sustainability and environmental dimensions of energy 1 We proceed from the definition of developed and developing countries based on the criteria proposed by the UN. Keywords: countries; development; energy; energy sources; energy transition; ermolaeva; ghana; landscape; level; niches; policy; power; regime; research; russia; sources; system; technologies; transition
• Types and Development Stages of Migrant Entrepreneurship in Russia by Peshkova, Vera M. (2023) - Since migrant entrepreneurship is a relatively recent and complex phenomenon in Russia, in this paper, we are focusing on questions about its scale in contemporary Russia, the factors driving its emergence and evolution, the similarities and differences among migrant entrepreneurs from various countries, and the role of ethnicity in migrant entrepreneurship. The development of Kyrgyz migrant entrepreneurship in Russia unfolds in three distinct stages. Keywords: azerbaijan; business; characteristics; countries; development; economic; economy; entrepreneurship; kyrgyz; kyrgyzstan; labor; migrants; migration; opportunities; post; research; russia; socio; soviet
• Cities of Vanadium: Technological Development and Post-Industrial Transformation in Emalahleni, Nizhny Tagil, and Panzhihua by Bugrov, Konstantin D. (2024) - We shall trace the historical trajectory of each of these “cities of vanadium” both in terms of their industrial development and their ability to transfer towards creative industries and sustainable growth, and then provide the comparison to see the trajectories of steel cities with similar industrial specialization under different national and historical circumstances within the post-industrial transition. Moreover, creative tourism allowed the inclusion of new destinations beside traditional types of resorts; in particular, it opened the way for industrial cities to compete as tourist destinations, as in cases of Duisburg, Wolfsburg, or Lodz. Keywords: cities; city; coal; development; economy; emalahleni; industry; metallurgy; mining; nizhny; ore; panzhihua; south; steel; tagil; titanium; vanadium
• Impact of Citizen Participation on Solving the Social Problems of Small Regional Towns in Russia by Ukhanova, Yuliya V.; Kopytova, Ekaterina D.; Zhestyannikov, Sergei G. (2024) - Inventory and analysis of definitions of social participation found in the aging literature: Proposed taxonomy of social activities. This article aims to identify the potential of citizen participation in resolving social contradictions to ensure the sustainability of small towns. Keywords: authorities; citizen; citizen participation; community; development; expert; participation; problems; public; socio; towns
• Social Participation as a Theoretical Concept and Social Phenomenon by Pevnaya, Maria V. (2024) - 5–13 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2024.8.1.260 EDITORIAL Social Participation as a Theoretical Concept and Social Phenomenon Maria V. Pevnaya Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia As well as serving as a theoretical framework for considering topics in sociology, psychology, anthropology, and economics, the concept of social participation informs interdisciplinary studies. While there are a number of concepts and definitions of social participation, we rely here on its broad interpretation as human interaction with other people in the course of their joint actions based around certain goals. Keywords: activity; citizens; development; groups; interaction; participation; people; public; volunteering; volunteers
• Exploratory Sequential Analysis on the Factors Affecting the Leadership of Women in Local Governments by Dagohoy, Ronel Geraldizo; Gascon, Mervin G. (2025) - By understanding and addressing these factors, policymakers and local government authorities can create more supportive and empowering conditions for women leaders, eventually leading to more effective and equitable governance. Research shows that women leaders often prioritize policies related to social welfare, education, and health, addressing critical gaps that male-dominated leadership structures may overlook (Young, 2016). Keywords: analysis; challenges; communication; development; factor; gender; governance; leadership; programs; research; roles; study; support; women; women leaders
• Transformation Patterns of the Psyche’s Regulatory Subsystem in the Context of Digitalization by Karpov, Anatoliy V.; Karpov, Alexander A.; Volchenkova, Anastasia A. (2024) - As a result, these matrices enable us to identify interrelated complexes of specific qualities and the relationships between them, specifically, in our case, between indicators of regulatory processes. Consequently, changes in cognitive and metacognitive processes inevitably affect regulatory processes. Keywords: changes; development; digitalization; karpov; level; organization; parameters; processes; structure; subsystem; transformations
• Inclusive Urban Gateways: Towards Socially Just and Open Urban Systems by Valibeigi, Mojtaba; Sharifi, Ayyoob; Maroufi, Sakineh; Danay, Sara (2025) - Accepted 23 February 2025 Published online 30 April 2025 ARTICLE Inclusive Urban Gateways: Towards Socially Just and Open Urban Systems Mojtaba Valibeigi Buein Zahra Technical University, Buein Zahra, Iran Ayyoob Sharifi The IDEC Institute, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan Sakineh Maroofi Buein Zahra Technical University, Buein Zahra, Iran Sara Danay Buein Zahra Technical University, Buein Zahra, Iran ABSTRACT This article reimagines the concept of urban gateways, highlighting their potential to promote social equity and inform policy decisions in urban development. The research explores how urban gateways can be adapted to meet contemporary needs, focusing on their evolving forms, functions, and conceptualizations. Keywords: access; analysis; area; cities; city; design; development; dimension; gateway; iran; people; planning; public; qur’an; shiraz; social; spaces; urban; uses
• Contemplating About Well-Being in Turbulent Times by Stepanova, Elena A. (2024) - It is therefore hardly surprising that well-being as a research theme occupies a central position in social studies and the humanities. Anna N. Gureeva particularly stresses the experience of the third wave of mediatization, known as “deep mediatization,” which is characterized by the integration of social practices with digital media remaining understudied and underrepresented in academic publications. Keywords: article; authors; development; indonesia; personality; research; russia; study; violence
• Revitalizing the Batik Industry in Indonesia: A Scenario Assessment by Kunjuraman, Velan; Mohd Radzi, Naziatul Aziah; Arimbi, Diah Ariani (2025) - This volatility of batik industry is similarly observed by Kristiana et al. (2023). Brand certification is another important policy developed to protect batik industry in Indonesia. Keywords: batik; batik industry; challenges; development; et al; government; heritage; indonesia; industry; national; policies; policy; production; scenario; study; sustainability
• Digitalization as a Factor in the Socio-Psychological Adaptation of Students by Karpov, Anatoliy V.; Karpov, Alexander A.; Volchenkova, Anastasia A. (2025) - The study identifies patterns in how digitalization reshapes students’ adaptive potential and its core components, or key adaptive qualities. Notably, the modern student cohort shows a clear decline in key adaptive qualities: the 2014 cohort’s profile is significantly higher than the 2024 cohort’s (p < .01), reflecting substantial psychological changes over ten years. Keywords: adaptation; analysis; changes; control; development; digitalization; individual; karpov; organization; potential; qualities; students; study
• The Security Dimension and the Formation of Social Exclusion in the Border of Belu Regency, Indonesia by Alkatiri, Farid Abud (2020) - However, in order to manage it properly, the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono regime established the national board for border management institution or the BNPP (Badan Nasional Pengelolaan Perbatasan or the National Border Management Board) in 2010, marking the new phase of the implementation of the new paradigm of border development management. Hall et al. (2013) have found the common patterns that one of the causes of land exclusion, particularly land eviction, in the most of Southeast Asia countries, is the use of security institutions to achieve or maintain the interests of governments or other powerful actors. Keywords: area; belu; border; community; development; east; exclusion; government; indonesia; institution; issues; land; leste; management; military; perbatasan; refugees; regency; resettlement; security; state; timor

• Perceived Personal Attractiveness and Self-Improvement Practices by Antonova, Natalya L.; Merenkov, Anatoly V. (2020) - Laurie Essig observes that in the modern fluid and fast-changing world, people are trying to maintain control over their lives and their future through body practices https://changing-sp.com/ https://guilfordjournals.com/author/Clay%2C+Daniel https://guilfordjournals.com/author/Vignoles%2C+Vivian+L https://guilfordjournals.com/author/Dittmar%2C+Helga 94 Materials and Methods Our survey was conducted in 2019 in Yekaterinburg (Russia) and focused on the commonly shared opinions and evaluations concerning attractive body and personality characteristics and practices for enhancing them. Keywords: age; beauty; body; groups; image; life; men; people; percent; practices; respondents; surgery; women
• The Crisis of Humanism and Emerging Post-Anthropocentric Epoch: A Personalistic View by Davydov, Dmitriy A. (2020) - The existence of human personality in the world suggests that the world is not self-sufficient, that the transcendence of the world is inevitable, its completion being found not in itself, but in God, the supermundane being. Of course, personality realises itself through social and cosmic existence, but it can only do this due to a principle that is independent both of nature and of human society forming within it. Keywords: anthropocentrism; crisis; davydov; destruction; example; human; humanism; humanity; individual; life; nature; new; people; personalities; personality; philosophy; posthumanism; society; trans; world; york
• A Graveyard as a Home to Ghosts or a Subject of Scholarly Research? The Czech National Cemetery at Vyšehrad by Bubík, Tomáš (2020) - Contemporary research confirms that religion is not an important theme for Czech society and is much less visible in public life than is the case, for example, in the neighbouring countries like Poland, Slovakia and Hungary (Máté-Tóth, 2019), that is in countries with a similar historical and cultural experience. A number of specialized studies dealing with the decline in the importance of religion in Czech society are usually based on sociological studies, and they reveal much of importance (Hamplová, 2013; Horák, 2015; Lužný, 1999; Nešpor, 2010; Václavík, 2009). Keywords: cemetery; character; christian; cross; czech; death; gravestones; life; national; period; religion; religiosity; society; study; time; tomb; vyšehrad; year
• The Dichotomy of Public/Private in the New Media Space by Drozdova, Alla V. (2020) - It is therefore no coincidence that media analysts (Teun van Dijk, Danilo Zolo) identify a contradiction between the dramatically increased access to public media and a deterioration in the quality of public debate. Therefore, a characteristic feature of new social media comprises the principle of active user participation in replenishing and creating content, which generally distinguishes these forms from those of the 20th century mass media. Keywords: communication; discussion; information; interests; life; media; networks; new; privacy; private; public; society; space; sphere; users; world
• Olga Shaburova, Sovetskii mir v otkrytke [The Soviet World in Postcards] (2017) Moscow-Ekaterinburg: “Kabinetnyj uchenyj” by Nemchenko, Lilia (2017) - Olga Viktorovna considers the practice of postcard holiday congratulations following Yurchak’s definition of the “endorsed ritual” (Yurchak 2014). Thus, postcards are issued, their quality improves with their diversified subject matter, and, once transformed into a mandatory ritual of Soviet life, the practice of writing, sending and receiving postcards acquires the character of everyday practices. Keywords: author; everyday; holiday; labour; life; postcard; world
• Solidarity, Religion, and the Environment: Challenges and Promises in the 21st Century by Cladis, Mark S. (2017) - It has become clear that religion plays a salient role in forging social solidarity and, in the process, of shaping cultural perspectives that pertain to politics, education, the economy, and the environment. In this article, I do the following: (1) I argue that religion and solidarity should not be treated as anomalies in modernity, and that both religion and solidarity continue to play a significant role in local and global events; social solidarity in particular remains an essential condition for addressing many challenges that confront the globe today, including social justice and environmental degradation. Keywords: community; durkheim; groups; human; individualism; justice; life; practices; religion; rights; solidarity; state; work
• Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (OSE): Jewish Humanitarian Mission for over 100 Years by Potap, Olga; Cohen, Marc; Nekritch, Grigori (2021) - OSE, WWII Period The OSE made significant efforts to shield Jewish children from deportation to the concentration camps. For more than a century, the international organization OSE has demonstrated to the world the enduring importance of eternal human values, which are historically shared by Jewish people—the ability to resist the evil, compassion, solidarity, striving for social justice, advanced professional knowledge, and, if necessary, self-sacrifice. Keywords: activities; american; children; committee; countries; family; france; health; holocaust; jews; life; medical; new; organizations; ose; people; population; potap; social; time; war; years
• Follow the River: City Regeneration in Tension as Works of Water by Golovátina-Mora, Polina (2022) - Water In TV series Longstreet, Bruce Lee’s character summarized the potential of water: “Be formless, shapeless, like water... The ontological proposal of feminist more-than-humanism focusing on materiality of water, particularly its rhizomatic connectivity, allows rethinking the concept of the city and its regeneration as generation of the inclusive space that provides habitat and life for anyone who wants to live in, around, through, and with the city. Keywords: city; colombia; golovátina; guattari; human; life; medellín; mora; pet; process; public; regeneration; relations; river; roca; servat; space; thinking; water
• Digital Fears Experienced by Young People in the Age of Technoscience by Abramova, Sofya B.; Antonova, Natalya L.; Campa, Riccardo; Popova, Natalia G. (2022) - Accepted 15 March 2022 Riccardo Campa, Natalia G. Popova Published online 11 April 2022 sofia_abramova@mail.ru n-tata@mail.ru riccardo.campa.02@gmail.com ngpopova@list.ru ARTICLE Digital Fears Experienced by Young People in the Age of Technoscience Sofya B. Abramova Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia Natalya L. Antonova Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia Riccardo Campa Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Natalia G. Popova Institute for Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia ABSTRACT With the advance of technoscience, digital technologies have started to reshape the traditional array of social fears experienced by younger generations by triggering the appearance of new, digital fears. Social fears exert a negative impact on the well-being of a given society, deteriorating the emotional balance and adaptive potential of generations. Keywords: anxiety; campa; control; data; fears; future; information; internet; journal; life; people; popova; respondents; social; societies; society; technologies; world
• Talking to God: Religion, Para-Science and Disciplinary Practices as Consolidation Tools by Ryazanova, Svetlana V. (2022) - In the 2000s and 2010s, the region of upper Kama1 became a site of turbulent transformations in the sphere of religion, which had led to the emergence of new religious communities. The study identifies most effective social instruments for the consolidation of those type of religious community. Keywords: anonymous; budilova; communication; community; leader; life; members; new; orthodox; s. r.; source; translation
• “Guilty of Being Free”: An Intellectual vs. Soviet Penal System (Prison Letters and Drawings of Sergei Parajanov) by Simyan, Tigran S. (2022) - 197–216 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2022.6.1.170 Received 7 March 2021 © 2022 Tigran S. Simyan Accepted 31 March 2022 tsimyan@ysu.am Published online 11 April 2022 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9534-3505 ARTICLE “Guilty of Being Free”: An Intellectual vs. Soviet Penal System (Prison Letters and Drawings of Sergei Parajanov)1 Tigran S. Simyan Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia ABSTRACT Sergei Parajanov was one of the most innovative directors of postwar Soviet cinema, which made him suspect to the Soviet authorities and eventually led Parajanov to serving a prison sentence. This article discusses how the trauma of Parajanov’s prison experience was reflected in the textual and visual output (letters, drawings and collages) that he created during his imprisonment out of the materials at hand. Keywords: film; homosexuality; katanyan; life; parajanov; prison; sergei; soviet; system; t. s.; translation; tsereteli; zakoyan
• Socio-Demographic Construct of Social Loneliness in Modern Russia by Ildarhanova, Chulpan I.; Gnevasheva, Vera A. (2022) - Several factors exacerbating and minimizing social loneliness are presented. A strong emphasis is placed on the importance of families in alleviating social loneliness and on family construct preservation. Keywords: children; factors; family; group; happiness; individual; life; loneliness; marriage; people; respondents; self; study; women
• Exploring Anchor Personality and True Meaning in Indonesian Young Adults by Ayuningtyas, Annisa Ardi; Riyono, Bagus (2023) - 102–128 105 Factors Contributing to True Meaning: Anchor Personality Both external and internal factors contribute to true meaning. Anchor stability is obtained from the following formula: 𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏 = 𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍 − 𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍 − |𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍 − 𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆ℎ𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑍𝑍𝑍𝑍| (1) Results Descriptive Data Based on descriptive analysis, we can see that on average, the subjects answered incorrectly on the aspects of true meaning, thus indicating low true meaning (Table 1). Keywords: anchor; anchor personality; anchor stability; dimensions; individuals; journal; life; materials; meaning; personality; psychology; research; riyono; self; social; stability; study; theory; virtues
• Where am I Now: Symbols Used in Manggarai Funeral Rite, Indonesia by Darong, Hieronimus Canggung; Niman, Erna Mena; Guna, Stanislaus (2023) - https://changing-sp.com/ 166 Hieronimus Canggung Darong, Erna Mena Niman, Stanislaus Guna Conclusion It is not enough to study the nature of language symbols solely from a linguistic perspective. 150–172 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2023.7.2.235 Received 4 March 2023 © 2023 Hieronimus Canggung Darong, Erna Mena Niman, Accepted 30 May 2023 Stanislaus Guna Published online 3 July 2023 hieronimusdarong@gmail.com, ernaniman79@gmail.com gunastanislaus@gmail.com ARTICLE Where am I Now: Symbols Used in Manggarai Funeral Rite, Indonesia Hieronimus Canggung Darong, Erna Mena Niman, Stanislaus Guna Universitas Katolik Indonesia Santu Paulus, Ruteng, Indonesia ABSTRACT A symbol has a specific meaning and represents the user’s conception, way of thinking, and interpretation. Keywords: community; cultural; culture; darong; ethnic; funeral; journal; knowledge; language; life; manggarai; meaning; niman; studies; study; symbols; use; values; wisdom
• Assessing the Impact of Innovative Technologies on the Life Satisfaction of Older Adults in Russia and Vietnam by Barysheva, Galina A.; Klemasheva, Elena I.; Kashapova, Elmira R.; Nguyen, Thang Chien; Tran, Ngoc Thi Bich (2023) - There is evidence that new technologies enhance the daily convenience of older individuals and facilitate communication. Theoretical Framework The advent of digitalization in the economy has enabled older individuals to engage with new technologies (Chen & Schulz, 2016; Papa et al., 2017). Keywords: adults; age; assessment; individuals; life; life satisfaction; quality; quality assessment; region; research; respondents; satisfaction; space; technologies; tomsk
• “You are Needed and You Exist”: Motivation for Social Participation of Older Activists, Rostov Oblast, Russia by Kienko, Tatyana S. (2024) - What typological approaches to social participation motives align with those of the participants? This indicates that their engagement in social participation is a culmination of their lifetime experiences, thereby supporting the concepts presented by “life course” theories. Keywords: activities; age; individuals; life; motivation; motives; participant; participation; people; recognition; resources; trans
• The Phenomenon of Fishing in the Context of Human-Northern Nature Interaction: Network, Vitality, Communication by Sergeev, Andrei M.; Voronov, Vasilii M.; Kotkin, Konstantin Ya.; Simonova, Veronika V. (2023) - Ontological Understanding of Nature as an Opportunity to Understand the Existential and Psychological Foundations of Fishing Practices The theoretical drift towards the practices of linking the natural and the social, relying on the understanding of human nature as a natural automaton1 that acts on its own, allows us to deploy a deeper understanding of the phenomenon under study. This paper considers the popularity of informal fishing practices in the Murmansk region as an expression of existential and mental craving in response to the stimulating appeal, or even “challenge”, of nature. Keywords: catch; emphasis; fishermen; fishing; human; life; murmansk; nature; network; order; person; region; sergeev; species; understanding
• Islamic Inclusivism: Insights From Abu Dhabi, Silaturahmi Tunnel, and Walisanga-Ende by Maku, Hendrikus; Jahar, Asep Saepudin; Bevans, Stephen; Edu, Ambros Leonangung (2024) - This is exemplified by the presence of various Islamic organizations across the archipelago, including but not limited to Muhammadiyah, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), al-Washaliyah, Persatuan Tarbiyah Islam (Perti), Mathla’ul Anwar, Persatuan Islam (Persis), Persatuan Umat Islam (PUI), Jamiatul Khair, al-Irsyad, Nahdlatul Wathan (NW), Alkhairaat, Yayasan Pendidikan Islam (Yapis), and many others. Studying the theme of inclusive Islam as mirrored in the Abu Dhabi Brotherhood Declaration, the Silaturahmi Tunnel, and the Walisanga Islamic Boarding School, the perspective of religious inclusivism of Quraish Shihab, as will be discussed below, is relevant in the modern era. Keywords: abu; brotherhood; catholic; declaration; dhabi; dialogue; faith; god; indonesia; islam; islamic; life; muslim; peace; people; religion; school; tunnel; walisanga
• Refining Methodological Reflection: Exploring the Interviewing Experience of Oocyte Donors by Gramatchikova, Natalya B.; Polyakova, Irina G. (2023) - [Characteristics of motivation and recruitment of oocyte donors: Clinic vs donor]. According to this Order, oocyte donors can be both non-anonymous and anonymous. Keywords: childhood; children; donation; donor; experience; family; health; interview; life; past; psychologist; questions; situation; time; women
• Subjective Well-Being and Participation in Volunteering in Russia by Mersianova, Irina V.; Ivanova, Natalya V.; Briukhno, Aleksandra S. (2024) - In our view, exploring the nexus between SBW and volunteering is likely to enhance the knowledge of SWB social component and its correlates. Information channels were broken into social relationships through contacts with family and friends (Powdthavee, 2008) and civic engagement (Bjørnskov, 2006). Keywords: happiness; health; journal; life; people; relationship; study; swb; volunteering
• Exploring Social Identities in Indonesia: The Role of Religious and Ethnic Identities in Evaluating Well-Being by Setiawan, Tery; Riasnugrahani, Missiliana; Theresia, Ellen; Dwijayanthy, Meta; Sulastra, Marissa Chitra (2024) - Our findings reveal that religious identity significantly impacts life evaluations, with active engagement in religious practices positively correlating with RWB. This underscores the importance of religious identity over ethnic identity in shaping well-being. Keywords: identities; identity; individuals; indonesia; ingroup; level; life; model; participants; practices; religion; rwb; scale; study
• The Impact of Religious Self-Identification on Happiness and Well-Being: A Case Study of Kazakhstan by Jamanbalayeva, Sholpan; Burova, Elena; Tlenchiyeva, Shyryn (2024) - A survey in more than 20 countries revealed that more frequent participation in a religious community is associated with higher happiness levels (Ugur & Aydın, 2022; Zabolotskaia et al., 2021). I am a believer but virtually do not participate in religious life. Keywords: believers; happiness; kazakhstan; level; life; people; religion; religiosity; research; respondents; satisfaction; study
• Balanced Time Perspective as a Pathway to Flourishing: Examining the Role of Gratitude and Sense of Positive Agency by Anand, Peeyush; Pradhan, Rabindra Kumar (2025) - We try to extend flourishing research in the present study by incorporating BTP as a temporal flexibility and plasticity that fosters flourishing using the Construal Level Theory. Time perspective (TP), one of the most robust constructs in the psychological manifestation of time, gained traction after the seminal work of Zimbardo and Boyd (1999). Keywords: btp; et al; flourishing; future; gratitude; individuals; life; model; perspective; present; sopa; study; time; zimbardo
• Flesh of the Unborn: On the Political Philosophy of the Unborn by Andal, Aireen Grace T. (2020) - This implies that the connection between the contested embryonic or fetal body and political philosophy gathers a variety of deep and important questions, which form an intellectual and practical pursuit. However, this work argues that the embryonic or fetal body is the crux of political philosophy’s interest in the unborn. Keywords: body; discussions; doi; embryo; embryonic; fetus; human; law; life; organism; philosophy; rights; status
• Lingering Aftertaste of the USSR. Review of Dmitrii Travin (2024). Kak my zhili v SSSR [How we lived in the USSR]. Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie by Moshkin, Sergey V. (2025) - How can a young reader—the presumed target audience of the book—truly feel the vibe of Soviet life? “I sought to strip away the veneer covering our past and reveal Soviet life as it truly was—not as it was proclaimed to be”, he concludes (p. 495; Trans. by S. M.). Keywords: book; life; soviet; travin; ussr
• The Intersection of Belief, Culture, and Social Life: A Case Study of Indonesian Ritual by Niman, Erna Mena (2025) - Therefore, an in-depth study of Penti ritual practices should be conducted, especially for understanding how traditional belief values, cultural customs, and social relations interact dynamically in the practice of the ritual. Symbolic interaction of the Indigenous communities of Manggarai, Indonesia (Study of Penti cultural local wisdom in the context of environmental conservation). Keywords: community; culture; life; manggarai; penti; penti ritual; people; religion; ritual; social; spiritual; studies; study; values
• Representations of the USSR/Russia in David Bowie’s Imagined Travelogue by Ivanov, Andrey G. (2025) - One notable example of a Western artist with firsthand experience of Soviet life is British musician David Bowie (1947–2016). Various scientific conferences and exhibitions were held, for example, David Bowie Is, a touring museum exhibition on the history, artifacts, and background of Bowie’s life, music, films, tours, and creative work (Broackes & Marsh, 2013). Keywords: album; bowie; david; david bowie; day; life; moscow; music; people; russia; song; soviet; union; ussr; work

• Human Rights Advocacy of Baptist Initiators by Nikolskaya, Tatyana (2017) - Such cases genuinely increased the distrust of many Soviet believers towards foreign organisations and the media. KEYWORDS Evangelical Christian-Baptists, Initiators, human rights activities, Council of Churches, Council of Relatives of Prisoners Introduction In contemporary Russia, Russian Protestants (Evangelical Christians, Baptists, Pentecostals and Seventh Day Adventists) are generally contented with their situation. Keywords: activities; authorities; baptist; believers; christian; church; ecb; example; group; initiators; kryuchkov; people; prisoners; rights; soviet; state; ussr
• From Uncertainty to Trust: COVID-19 Pandemic Responses of South Korea and Sweden by Rezaev, Andrey V.; Tregubova, Natalia D.; Ivanova, Anastasia A. (2022) - C. Have South Korea and Sweden managed to establish trust in their relations with their populations and other states regarding their ability to cope with the pandemic? South Korea enjoyed a high level of trust from other states, while Swedish policies were widely criticized internationally. Keywords: cases; country; covid-19; government; health; individuals; korea; pandemic; people; population; south; state; sweden; swedish; testing; trust
• Ordoliberalism Revisited by Remington, Thomas F. (2022) - Hien does acknowledge, to be sure, the more generally recognized influence of Catholic social thought on the “social” ordoliberals, notably Alfred Müeller-Armack, who saw “social market economy” as a deliberate effort to marry the liberalism of the Freiburg school with a theoretical and practical commitment to the principle that the economy must serve to raise living standards and opportunity for all sections of society. Ordoliberalism was a legal and economic theory to defend competition—and all its benefits to society—against the threats posed by state socialism or by the consolidation of market power in cartels and monopolies. Keywords: böhm; competition; dyson; economy; eucken; freedom; germany; government; influence; market; market economy; neoliberalism; order; ordoliberalism; policy; power; school; social; state; system; university
• Perceived Discrimination of Old Settlers in Sikkim by Malu, Bhasker; Rajan, Santhosh Kareepadath; Jindal, Nikhita; Thakur, Aishwarya; Raghuram, Tanvi (2022) - However, before the merger, 400 Indian families, known as old settlers, had lived in Sikkim but did not become Sikkim subjects. KEYWORDS discrimination, Sikkim, race, old settlers, perceived discrimination, Northeasterners Changing Societies & Personalities, 2022, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. Keywords: community; department; discrimination; government; group; identity; india; locals; minority; participants; settlers; sikkim; state
• Revolution and Modernity by Martianov, Victor (2018) - KEYWORDS revolution, violence, political order, legitimacy, modernity, late modernity, centre-periphery, global economics, political subject, consensus, rental society, precariat The Political Project of Modernity as a Permanent Revolution? The revolution assumes as its key feature the emergence of alternative sources of political order (heterarchy) as a result of the rise and subsequent fall of mass political subjectivity (Kapustin, 2015, p. 7). Keywords: alternative; capitalism; class; consensus; future; interests; martianov; modernity; new; order; revolution; societies; society; state; subject
• Ethnocultural Pluralism and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Montenegro: Lessons to Learn by Vuković-Ćalasan, Danijela (2023) - Other countries, although officially non-multicultural in the normative-political sense, still envisage legal and political solutions that enable ethnocultural communities to preserve their identity specifics and achieve full integration without assimilation. The problem of successful management of ethnocultural pluralism from the perspective of needs of ethnocultural communities, as well as the interests of the social community as a whole, is mainly the subject of reflection and analysis at the state level. Keywords: communities; community; degree; identities; identity; level; management; members; minority; model; montenegro; multiculturalism; national; pluralism; roma; sense; state
• Personality and Society in the Theory of Self-Organized Criticality by Zhukov, Dmitry S. (2023) - Within SOC systems, many micro- and macro-events trigger causal chains that combine, weakening and strengthening one another. If some systems do not manifest themselves clearly enough as SOC systems, maybe these are something other than “weak” SOC systems. Keywords: brunk; criticality; events; history; human; processes; sciences; self; soc; soc theory; state; system; theory; time; zhukov
• Do Personality Traits Play a Role in Supporting Indonesian Islamic State? A Study on Fundamentalist Group Members in Indonesia by Chusniyah, Tutut; Suzana Binti Jaafar, Jas Laile; Muluk, Hamdi; Abidin, Zainal; Zahra, Gebi Angelina (2023) - According to this explanation, the symbolic threat perceived by the Indonesian members of Islamic political groups mediated their openness to experience and support for an Islamic political system as a form of protection for Islamic values. Additionally, Islamic political groups in Indonesia view liberal democracy as a threat to Islamic beliefs and practices. Keywords: attitudes; chusniyah; experience; factor; fit; groups; ideology; indonesia; islamic; journal; model; openness; personality; psychology; relationship; salafi; social; state; study; support; system; threat
• What Drives Us to Do the Things We Do? by Stepanova, Elena A. (2023) - The research involved 35 interviews conducted in 2019–2020 with heads and employees of social services organizations in 15 Russian regions. The authors assume that the extent to which older adults engage with these technologies depends on factors such as age, economic status, social needs, and physical abilities, all of which contribute to their overall life satisfaction. Keywords: article; authors; nature; organizations; research; return; russia; state
• Transcending Boundaries: The Role of Literature in Challenging Social Norms and Redefining Perspectives on Migration and Cultural Marginality Through the Works of Halaby, Lahiri, and Hamid by Gheytasi, Sajjad; Salami, Ali (2024) - As they cope with the multiple challenges of their new lives in America, a land of opportunity, the stark contrast with their country of origin, Jordan, becomes emblematic of the broader diasporic experience, in which individuals must negotiate the ever-changing dynamics of cultural identity, economic pressures, and the promises and pitfalls of their adopted country. As they cope with this complicated space, the fluid nature of cultural identity becomes strikingly clear, especially in the case of individuals like Jassim. Keywords: american; arab; gogol; halaby; hamid; home; identity; lahiri; migration; novel; refugees; sense; state; world
• “I Am Not a Corrupt Criminal and What I Did Is Not Corruption!”: The Dynamics of Perceptions, Denial, and Understanding of What Corruption Is by Abidin, Zainal; Putra, Idhamsyah Eka; Hanami, Yuliana; Angraeni, Sari (2024) - In analyzing corruption cases, rather than asking whether particular actions constitute corrupt practices, discursive psychology focuses on how corrupt acts are justified, minimized, or denied, and how actions are categorized as corrupt (McVittie & Sambaraju, 2019). In Indonesia, the number of corruption cases is still relatively high while the prosecution of corruption cases by law enforcement agencies tends to decline from 2015 to 2020 (Alamsyah, 2021). Keywords: bribery; case; corruption; indonesia; law; officials; participants; public; state; study; trans
• Weber’s Nationalism vs. Weberian Methodological Individualism: Implications for Contemporary Social Theory by Fabrykant, Marharyta (2019) - It is therefore necessary to transcend the information on the issue found in the relevant part of Weber studies and take a direct and closer look at the understanding of nations and national identities existing in the period. The considerable accumulated scholarship on the issue presents a unified belief that Weber was indeed a nationalist yet varies considerably in the significance attributed to the issue. Keywords: century; die; individualism; issue; nationalism; nations; people; society; state; theory; und; views; weber; weberian
• What Do Religious Corporations Owe for Burdening Individual Civil Rights by Strenski, Ivan (2019) - This eventuates, as I have observed, in the irony of Becket being held up as a paragon of individual religious freedom or independent conscience when, in fact, he was serving as a corporate, institutional factotum of the Roman Church against the English state of Henry II! This “blitz” of nationwide “Christian nationalist” legislative initiatives aims to promote “religious freedom”, that The NY Times report identifies as “the latest attempt by religious extremists to use the coercive power of government to secure a privileged position in society for their version of Christianity” (Stewart, 2018). Keywords: accommodations; church; freedom; gift; individual; liberty; religion; rights; sovereignty; state
• A Cinematic Reflection on Nigeria’s Political Economy Using Nollywood’s Black Book as a Lens by Essien, Essien Oku; Inyang, Emmanuel Nyong; Umahi, Jason Emeka (2025) - 800–825 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2025.9.3.354 ARTICLE A Cinematic Reflection on Nigeria’s Political Economy Using Nollywood’s Black Book as a Lens Essien Oku Essien Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA Emmanuel Nyong Inyang University of Cross River State, Calabar, Nigeria Jason Emeka Umahi University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River, Nigeria ABSTRACT In a nation where memory is contested and justice elusive, the cinema exists as both witness and warrior. As such, a semiotic reading of an African film like The Black Book (2023) must also consider how its aesthetics and narrative choices are informed by local and global ideological forces. Keywords: book; cinema; corruption; economy; edima; effiong; elite; essien; film; justice; memory; military; narrative; nigeria; nollywood; paul; power; screen; semiotic; silence; state; use; violence

• “You cannot step into the same river twice”, – what does it mean for us today? by Stepanova, Elena (2017) - Theories and methodologies aimed at understanding the direction and mechanisms behind social change have differed dramatically since the emergence of the social sciences. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to academic research and writing, since social changes and personal transformations cannot be fully understood from the perspective of any single social science or humanities discipline; nor can it be comprehended within the bounds of a single academic discipline. Keywords: journal; personalities; religion; sciences; societies; values
• “Messianicity Without Messianism”: On the Place of Religion in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida by Soloviy, Roman (2020) - In J. Derrida & J. D. Caputo (Eds.), Deconstruction in a Nutshell: a Conversation with Jacques Derrida (pp. 3–28). Idea of Messianicity and Religious Messianisms Derrida emphasizes that although his idea of messianicity is not related to what is considered to be the essence of religious messianisms, that is, the historical revelation and figure of the Messiah, it does not mean that they should be dismissed as absurd eschatological fabrications. Keywords: concept; derrida; future; god; messianicity; messianism; past; religion; time
• Religious Memory in a Changing Society: The Case of India and Papua New Guinea by Lužný, Dušan (2021) - The study shows that if there is a connection between religious memory and national memory (or national identity), the religious tradition is maintained or strengthened, whereas when religious memory and national memory are disconnected, religious memory is weakened in a modernizing society. KEYWORDS religious memory, national identity, India, Papua New Guinea, Haridwar, Kambot, Brahat Mata Mandir, tambaran ACKNOWLEDGMENT This article has been supported by the European Regional Development Fund – Project “Sinophone Borderlands – Interaction at the Edges” CZ .02 . Keywords: collective; dušan; figure; haridwar; hindu; identity; india; lužný; mandir; memory; national; nationalism; new; png; press; religion; tambaran; tradition; university
• “There is a crucial need for competent social scientists”… by Inglehart, Ronald F. (2017) - With one big exception: in ex-communist societies religion has been growing rapidly, to fill the ideological vacuum left by the disappearance of a Marxist belief system that once gave a sense of meaning and purpose to millions of people. Since the development of industrial society, this is no longer true. Keywords: countries; intelligence; need; people; religion; societies; society; war; world
• On an Antinomy in the Discourses of Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience by Strenski, Ivan (2017) - In reading closely a recent celebrated anthology on religious freedom, Politics of Religious Freedom (Danchin, Hurd, Mahmood and Sullivan, 2015), I found myself both highly stimulated and informed by the discussions therein, even when I found myself disagreeing. And, in order to avoid confusion with the term, “religious liberty,” I shall reserve that term for general uses bringing both “freedom of religion” with “religious freedom” under the same umbrella. Keywords: church; conscience; freedom; individual; institutional; religion
• Religion and the Subaltern Self: An Exploration from the Indian Context by Patrick, Gnana (2017) - By way of concluding: subaltern self and religion in India Above-mentioned subaltern individuals and movements are some typical examples of the resurgent Dalit selves that manifested in the history of Indian religions. Exploring ‘subaltern religions’ on their own It is instructive at this juncture to get to know that a good number of activist-scholars who, though not enlisted among the subaltern studies collective, have studied and contributed to the understanding of subaltern religion. Keywords: caste; colonial; consciousness; context; dalit; delhi; experience; ibid; india; new; people; religion; self; studies; subaltern
• Karpov V., Svensson M. (Eds.) (2020). Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration. Cross-Disciplinary Challenges to a Modern Myth. Palgrave Macmillan. by Kyselov, Oleg S. (2021) - For a long time the conventional view on this problem has been that secular societies provide religious tolerance better than religious ones. On the other hand, the statement that the religious societies provide religious tolerance better than the secular ones is also false. Keywords: book; karpov; religion; secularization; tolerance
• Do We Still Need to Defend the Right to Say What We Disapprove? by Stepanova, Elena (2017) - When Christianity became official religion of the Roman Empire, “religious freedom was replaced by religious oppression as enemies of the Church and enemies of the State became more of less interchangeable. Ivan Strenski’s On an Antinomy in the Discourses of Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience introduces the new section of the journal – ESSAY – and opens discussion on the questions: Can freedom of religion and religious freedom really be separated in reality? Keywords: beliefs; conscience; freedom; human; religion; right
• Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere: Comparing Nordic Countries (Inger Furseth, ed.). Springer, 2017 by Stepanova, Elena (2018) - The authors observe the concept of “culturalization of religion” and conclude that it may allow majority religions a presence in places from where religion is banned or regarded with suspicion. Springer, 2017 1 Elena Stepanova Institute for Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia In the contemporary world, religion holds a significant place in many people’s lives, intersecting with other identities. Keywords: churches; countries; presence; public; religion
• “Discovery of Hinduism” in Religious Thought of the Bengal Renaissance by Skorokhodova, Tatiana G. (2023) - However, his interpretation integrates in general terms all diversity of modern Hinduism and presents practical and formal differences as tolerable and acceptable for the unity of Indian peoples. The polytheistic decline of Hinduism Rammohun interprets as a result of societal need to prevent “persons of feeble intellect unable to comprehend God as not subject to the senses and without form, should either pass their life without any religious duties whatsoever or should engage in evil work” (p. 161). Keywords: bankimchandra; discovery; god; hinduism; image; india; rammohun; religion; roy; vedas; vivekananda; vol
• The Use of Media in a South African School: A Case Study of Khabazela High School in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Mgenge, Sibusiso S. (2018) - However, many Religion Studies teachers do not have the proper training on how to use media responsibly as an educational resource to make the subject relevant to the learners. The study reveals that various media in the form of magazines, newspapers, films, YouTube1 and Facebook2 were used in Religion Studies classrooms. Keywords: media; religion; studies; teachers
• Victoria Smolkin (2018). A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism. Princeton University Press by Menshikov, Andrey S. (2018) - Victoria Smolkin book – the monumental exposition of the history of Soviet atheism – analyzes it in its complexity and multidimensionality tracing its development from an ideological precept of Marxism-Leninism to the state policy of expunging Russian Orthodoxy from the Soviet public life, to social science methodology in the study of religion, to philosophical inquiry into the nature of spirituality and moral commitment. Thus, the challenge of intractable religious beliefs and practices along with the developing academic study of religions forced the Soviet ideologues to reconsider their very understanding of the nature of religion and to rethink their strategy of eliminating religion. Keywords: atheism; religion; soviet
• Majority/Minority Dichotomy in Religions: Theoretical Reflections and Social Practices by Stepanova, Elena A. (2020) - The respective role of various religions in public spaces is highly dependent on the historical-cultural background of the particular religion in the given state (although this can change over time); moreover, a religion that is considered to be in the majority in one setting, could be a minority in another, and vice versa. At the same time, immigrant groups that are religious minorities in their countries of Received 10 December 2019 © 2019 Elena A. Stepanova Published online 6 January 2020 stepanova.elena.a@gmail.com https://changing-sp.com/ 300 Elena A. Stepanova origin become part of the religious mainstream in their host countries. Keywords: majority; minority; public; religion; rights
• Religious Freedom in Flux: The European Court of Human Rights Grapples with Ethnic, Cultural, Religious, and Legal Pluralism by Richardson, James T. (2020) - European Rights Court Condemns Russia over Pussy Riot. KEYWORDS European Court of Human Rights, religious freedom, legal pluralism, margin of appreciation, pilot judgments, Islam, Russia’s extremism statutes, minority religions, Jehovah’s Witnesses1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Effie Fokas and Willy Fautre for careful readings of earlier drafts of this paper 1 An organization proscribed in the Russian Federation (Editor's note). Keywords: cases; coe; court; european; european court; law; member; religion; richardson; rights; states
• From Respected Religion Scholar Expert to Cartoon Character: Reflections in the Wake of the Danish Muhammad Cartoon Crisis and Three Decades as Expert to the Media by Jensen, Tim (2020) - Sunday January 30, 2006, the face of scholar Jensen with a headline “Jyllands-Posten was warned” covered the front page of Politiken (Høy-Jensen, 2006), a daily critical of JP’s publication of the cartoons. With this photo, headline and article, I got my break-through as a religion scholar- expert, and the same evening, scholar Jensen, but now also “warner-oracle” Jensen appeared on al-Jazeera as a Danish Muslim told his Muslim brothers that JP, thanks to Jensen, actually knew very well what they were doing – and had done. Keywords: academic; article; cartoons; danish; debate; expert; islam; jensen; knowledge; muslims; opinion; public; religion; scholar; study

• Rossiia v poiskakh ideologii. Transformatsiia tsennostnykh reguliatorov sovremennykh obshchestv [Russia in search of ideologies: the transformation of value-based regulators in modern societies] (2016). Viktor Martianov, Leonid Fishman (Eds.) by Kochukhova, Elena (2017) - The ten studies of modern Russian ideologies presented in the third part of the monograph consist primarily of research simulations. The fact that the victories of post-Soviet Russia are not connected with August 1991 (victory over the putschists), October 1993 (shelling of the parliament), June 12, 1990 (Independence Day) or December 12, 1993 (day of the Enactment of the Constitution), makes it possible to suspect political elites of impotence. Keywords: author; ideologies; ideology; monograph; russia; soviet
• Beyond Nations and Nationalities: Discussing the Variety of Migrants’ Identifications in Russian Social Media by Tregubova, Natalia D.; Nee, Maxim L. (2020) - KEYWORDS migration to Russia, transnational migrants, labor migrants, ethnic and national identifications, interaction rituals, online interactions, social media ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Grant No. 18-78-10049 https://changing-sp.com/ https://vk.com 324 Natalia D. Tregubova, Maxim L. Nee Introduction Setting the Problem The collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in the appearance of new states and state borders. Migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are predominantly labor migrants, while for migrants from Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan work is one of the main aims of migration. Keywords: asia; central; comment; countries; country; groups; identifications; interactions; kazakhstan; kyrgyzstan; labor; migrants; migration; nation; observation; online; post; russia; soviet; tajikistan; uzbekistan
• Vandal Practices as a Psychological Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic by Kruzhkova, Olga V.; Simonova, Irina A.; Ljovkina, Anastasia O.; Krivoshchekova, Marina S. (2021) - Moreover, our findings have also demonstrated that social instability and transitivity in the crisis period stimulate people to rethink the current social order and search for new social forms, structures, and principles. This category includes cases of unauthorized transformation of urban space aimed at reflecting new norms of social behavior. Keywords: actions; art; behavior; change; coping; coronavirus; covid-19; figure; graffiti; kruzhkova; new; pandemic; people; research; russia; simonova; situation; vandalism; world
• “By the rivers of Babylon” and Elsewhere: Weeping and Recovering by Stepanova, Elena A. (2021) - The current issue of Changing Societies & Personalities is devoted to a theme having an exceptional importance for the humankind—the fate and deeds of Jewish people in various places and contexts, as well as the roots of anti- Semitism, which still exists in many settings 75 years after the Auschwitz liberation. The author underlines that the Soviet project of Jewish autonomy was originally utopian, intending “to combine Jewish dreams of their own land with the demands of a new society: Jewish culture was to become modern, proletarian, and secular”; and describes several stages of the failure of the project. Keywords: article; god; jews; people; russia; world
• Political Socialization in a Changing Society: A Crisis of Value Orientations or Asynchronization of National Memories? by Zavershinskiy, Konstantin F.; Koryushkin, Alexander I. (2022) - Drawing on the methods of cultural sociology, the authors outline novel theoretical approaches to studying youth political socialization in today’s society. The pandemic has also exposed the limitations of traditional value-normative models of youth political socialization. Keywords: communications; communicative; communities; events; generations; images; institutions; legitimation; memory; people; politics; processes; russia; socialization; society; youth
• The Transformation of Values in the Times of Uncertainty by Stepanova, Elena A. (2021) - Revealing the historical roots of post-colonial thought, Konstantin D. Bugrov (Yekaterinburg, Russia) begins his article Colonial Revolution and Liberatory War: from Communist to Post-Colonial Theory (Georgy Safarov, Mao Zedong and Frantz Fanon) by mentioning Vladimir Lenin’s justification of a national liberation war even if it is a war of a colonial semi-feudal state against a well-developed imperialist state. On the other, the COVID-19 pandemic, which is analyzed in several articles from different perspectives, is far more than a health crisis. Keywords: article; authors; colonial; covid-19; research; russia; uncertainty; work
• Socio-Cultural Differences in Social Exclusion by Díez-Nicolás, Juan; López-Narbona, Ana Maria (2018) - When examining the relationships of the independent variables with the dependent one, group social exclusion, it is evident that most are similar to what was found with respect to total and to personal social exclusion. Social exclusion has been measured through three indexes of social exclusion, personal, group and total exclusion, since a main component analysis demonstrated that the degree of social exclusion varied depending on whether the excluded group was more or less based on personal decisions on one’s behaviour taken by the individual. Keywords: countries; drug; east; european; exclusion; exclusion index; group; group exclusion; index; indexes; information; mena; people; personal; post; regions; russia; security; social; total; values; variables
• The Past Bursts into the Present by Moshkin, Sergey V. (2022) - However, the government does not and cannot have a monopoly on historical memory, and therefore dealing with our past is not so much the task of the government, but the task of the entire society, of all the people and groups that make it up. On the other hand, this partly has led to the emasculation of the original meaning of the people’s initiative and official profanation of historical memory. Keywords: book; government; history; kurilla; memory; past; russia
• Leave Policy System in Russia: Is It Time to Change? by Blednova, Natalia D.; Bagirova, Anna P. (2023) - KEYWORDS parental leave, paternity leave, parental leave policy, leave-takers, Parental leave policy is an essential element in the family policy structure in many developing countries (ILO, 2012). Keywords: childcare; children; countries; family; fathers; labor; leave; men; paternity; policy; region; right; russia; women
• Values Under the Influence of Various Contexts: Cross-Cultural Reflections by Stepanova, Elena A. (2022) - The research is based on a cross-sectional study of more than 1500 primary, secondary, and high public school students (boys and girls in Received 1 October 2022 © 2022 Elena A. Stepanova Published online 10 October 2022 stepanova.elena.a@gmail.com https://changing-sp.com/ 484 Elena A. Stepanova equal proportion). Muslims, Islams, and Occidental Anxieties: Conversations about Islamophobia by Elena A. Stepanova. Keywords: article; authors; elena; fluid; intelligence; research; russia; women
• Between Career and Motherhood: Factors Affecting Women’s Career Trajectories After Childbirth in Russia by Gasiukova, Elena N. (2022) - If a woman’s work history is less than six months, she cannot be paid more than the minimum wage a month; working women receive a benefit of 100% of their average earnings (O gosudarstvennykh posobiiakh, 1995). The high value of motherhood is also evidenced by the fact that Russian women ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 22-28-20426). Keywords: benefits; career; childbirth; children; class; data; employment; labor; leave; market; russia; trajectories; trajectory; women; work; working; years
• The Order of Concepts and/or the Order of Things as Triggers for Social Transformations by Stepanova, Elena A. (2023) - The authors search for ways of conceptualizing such ambivalent cases, as anti-vaxxer’s referring to sacrifice for the sake of personal freedom; the validity and types of social support for young families and their reproductive behavior; the danger of becoming a “lost” media generation due to digital divide; the influence of self-based and group-based emotions on collective actions; the counteraction of humor and official narrative in the political sphere; and—last but not least—echoing the ideas of cooperation and collaboration, ability for self-improvement, and meaningful participation in social life between classical Persian literature and European philosophy of the 20th century. In Adlerian philosophy, a human being has the capacity for cooperation and collaboration, as well as the ability for self- improvement, growth, self-realization, and meaningful participation in social life. Keywords: article; authors; families; internet; leave; media; order; russia; system
• Christina Weis (2021). Surrogacy in Russia: An Ethnography of Reproductive Labour, Stratification and Migration. Emerald by Chernyaeva, Natalia A. (2023) - Chapter 3 addresses the topic of the relationship between client parents and surrogacy workers. However, regardless of the arrangement, “surrogacy workers and client parents conceptualise their relationship in terms of a hierarchical ‘employee–employer’ relationship” (p. 57). Keywords: author; book; russia; surrogacy; surrogate; weis
• Maria V. Pevnaya (Ed.). (2023). Sotsial’noe uchastie molodezhi v sotsiokul’turnom razvitii gorodov Rossii i postsovetskikh stran: Potentsial i model’ upravleniia. Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta by Atanesyan, Arthur V. (2024) - A comparative analysis of the practices of public management of urban youth activities at both the city level and within individual organizations across different countries, as well as identification and description of promising urban sociocultural projects that involve youth participation, help to better frame youth studies as well as future projects with/for social participation of youth. The study addressed a range of issues related to the exploration of the city’s associative image, employing various methods including the association method, the mental map method to investigate students’ perceptions of the city as a platform for personal self-realization (a “city for themselves”), and the symbolic space of the city as an integrator of youth social participation. Keywords: book; cities; city; participation; russia; study; youth
• US, Russia, China and Africa in the Evolving Global Order by Monyae, David (2018) - 351–365 http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/csp.2018.2.4.051 Received 12 September 2018 © 2018 David Monyae Accepted 3 December 2018 dmonyae@uj.ac.za Published online 15 December 2018 ARTICLE US, Russia, China and Africa in the Evolving Global Order 1 David Monyae University of Johannesburg, South Africa ABSTRACT The relations of US, Russia, China and the African continent have evolved since the end of the Second World War (WWII). The increasing self-preservation by western countries ended any prospect that the Doha Round of the WTO would be beneficial to Africa and the developing world (represented in the negotiations by Brazil, China, India and South Africa) – and it was not, as agricultural tariffs were only removed for one product, bananas, imported to EU countries and the US from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean (Shah, 2013). Keywords: africa; china; cold; countries; economic; foreign; global; international; order; policy; russia; states; trade; war; west; world
• Exploring Fertility Dynamics and Factors Shaping Russia’s Demographic Prospects by Arkhangelskiy, Vladimir N.; Sivoplyasova, Svetlana Yu.; Moiseeva, Evgeniya M. (2024) - Given the variance in fertility rates by birth order, the analysis favors a segmented approach, separately considering trends for first, second, third, and subsequent births. This study analyzes fertility rates for both hypothetical and real generations, providing insights into how major events like the COVID-19 pandemic and demographic policies such as family benefits affect birth patterns and overall fertility rates across generations. Keywords: average; birth; children; fertility; fertility rate; generations; number; population; rate; reproductive; russia; second; total; women; years
• On Professional Values Under a State of War: Exile Journalists From Ukraine in Russia by Volkov, Pavel V.; Baysha, Olga A. (2024) - Finally, their criticisms of Ukrainian journalists for endorsing intolerance toward cultural others, ethnic hatred, and cultural homogenization drew on the assumption that journalism should be unbiased, inclusive, and attentive to the opinions of underprivileged and marginalized minority groups. 651–664 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2024.8.3.293 Received 9 May 2024 Accepted 26 August 2024 Published online 21 October 2024 ARTICLE On Professional Values Under a State of War: Exile Journalists From Ukraine in Russia Pavel V. Volkov, Olga A. Baysha National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia ABSTRACT This paper discusses the case of exile journalists from Ukraine who moved to Russia between 2014 and 2022. Keywords: baysha; discourse; donbass; exile; interviewees; journalists; maidan; media; people; principles; respect; russia; ukraine; ukrainians
• Spatial Imaginary in “Western” Travelogues about Russia by Purgina, Ekaterina S. (2019) - In all the three travelogues, the authors maintain their authority and expertise by demonstrating their intimate knowledge of Russian life and the “authenticity” of their experience of Russia, gained through years of living in the country and through contacts with Russian people, not only as respondents, but also as acquaintances and close friends. The past/present dichotomy leaves little place for the future since, as David Greene puts it, “modern Russia seems to be living in a void”, “careering down an uncertain path” (Greene, 2014, pp. Keywords: andrew; anne; country; garrels; greene; meier; moscow; past; people; russia; soviet; travel; travelogue
• Tendencies of Translation Manipulation Strategies in Anglophone Mass Media: The Case of the “Collective West” by Dymova, Alyona V.; Koptyaeva, Natalya N.; Beavitt, Thomas A. (2024) - For example, in a rebuttal issued by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, India’s English-language media are alleged in their coverage of the present Ukrainian crisis to “blindly reprint articles on foreign policy events from biased foreign news agencies, such as AP1, AFP2, Bloomberg3 and Reuters4, which present news in the anti-Russia spirit and often publish bare-faced disinformation and 1 https://apnews.com 2 https://www.afp.com/en/news-hub 3 https://www.bloomberg.com/europe 4 https://www.reuters.com KEYWORDS collective West, translation distortion, news translation, ideologeme, mistranslation, linguistic manipulation, international relations, Anglophone media, misquotation https://apnews.com https://www.afp.com/en/news-hub https://www.bloomberg.com/europe https://www.reuters.com Changing Societies & Personalities, 2024, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. Textual Analysis The phrase “коллективный Запад” (phonetically “kollektivnyi Zapad”) typically translated into English as “collective West,” almost universally preceded with “the,” became prominent in the post-Soviet era as a means to describe the perceived unified stance of Western nations—primarily the States and European countries—on geopolitical issues that involve Russia and its actions on the global stage. Keywords: alyona; beavitt; collective; discourse; dymova; english; foreign; koptyaeva; language; march; meaning; means; media; natalya; news; original; peskov; putin; quotation; quote; russia; term; thomas; translation; ukraine; war; west; world; zaiavil; запад; коллективный
• Housing Precarity in Russia: Measurements in Regions and Federal Districts by Litvintsev, Denis B. (2025) - 398–415 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2025.9.2.334 ARTICLE Housing Precarity in Russia: Measurements in Regions and Federal Districtss Denis B. Litvintsev Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk, Russia ABSTRACT Housing precarity has become an increasingly prominent issue over the past two decades, attracting sustained attention from researchers across multiple disciplines. As a multidimensional phenomenon, housing precarity affects both renters and homeowners in various ways, depending on social and institutional contexts. Keywords: affordability; analysis; conditions; federal; housing; housing precarity; index; indicators; litvintsev; living; oblast; precarity; quality; regions; republic; research; rihp; russia; social
• The Anatomy of a Moral Panic: Western Mainstream Media’s Russia Scapegoat by Simons, Greg (2019) - Moral panics tend to have a tendency to serve the interests of the hegemonic political and economic order (Welch, Price, & Yankey, 2002). The present study intends to look at the issue and practice of moral panic from a strategic overview and through the lens of mass communication in order to understand the political why and how of the current moral panic concerning mainstream news media coverage of the Russian “threat”. Keywords: analysis; brand; democracy; doi; estate; information; journalism; mainstream; mass; media; news; order; panic; power; public; putin; russia; threat
• Editor's Note by Stepanova, Elena A. (2025) - In planning to introduce new interesting themes, we welcome suggestions from our readers and prospective authors for thematic issues, debate sections or book reviews. 573–578 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2025.9.3.342 EDITORIAL Editor’s Note The current issue of Changing Societies & Personalities covers issues pertaining to undergoing transformations in value systems investigated from diverse perspectives, such as the features of imagined travelogue; influence of structured discourse on ideological alignment, sentiment shifts, and generational differences in political perception; the status and activity of politicized online opposition communities on VK1; an analysis of regional culture policies in Russia in the context of traditional values; public trust in law enforcement agencies; cancel culture as the representation of a form of memory politics; openness and closedness as identity factors in both real and virtual worlds; the need for comprehensive, policy-oriented scenario analysis of the batik industry in Indonesia; the issue of effective management of municipal solid waste as one of the most urgent challenges facing today’s megacities; a polymorphic impact of digitalization on cognition, affecting both adaptive capacities and maladaptive risks; a global trend where popular cinema engages with issues of governance, power, and justice. Keywords: analysis; article; authors; communities; culture; identity; research; russia; study

• Nationalisms in Times of Change, Changes in Nationalism: Editorial Introduction by Fabrykant, Marharyta S. (2020) - This year, however, the Nations and Nationalism journal, one of the major trendsetters in nationalism studies, features a paper suggesting that opponents of nationalist populism would do well to embrace nationalism of their Changing Societies & Personalities, 2020, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. Further research on the factors and implications of migrants’ visibility are likely to lead to new discoveries on the vaieties on migrants national identities. Keywords: article; attitudes; borders; identity; issue; migrants; nationalism; nations; populism; research
• The Efficacy of a Holding Community Program—Promoting Social Reflection at School by Siegler, Anna; Serdült, Sára; Csernus, Fanni; Dézma, Lilla; Ilea, Izabella; Bigazzi, Sára (2021) - Differentiation between social groups: Studies in the social psychology of intergroup relations (pp. An environment of acceptance minimizes the threat-induced defensiveness and enables children to work with self-other differences and create an inclusive space where new social perspectives and cognitive alternatives may emerge. Keywords: groups; identity; intergroup; intervention; perspective; prejudice; school; self; social; students; taking; test
• Tradition as a Homeland to Return to: Transnational Religious Identity of the Post-Soviet Orthodox Jewry by Ostrovskaya, Elena A. (2021) - Both Chabad and Lithuanian rabbis raise funds for local synagogues, Jewish religious schools for boys or girls. As a rule, they were exposed to the tradition in Jewish religious schools, where they learnt to observe in the post-Christian majority, non-Jewish sociocultural environment. Keywords: chabad; communities; community; country; identity; israel; jewry; jews; observance; orthodox; petersburg; practices; school; soviet; study
• Exploring the Dynamics of Xenophobia in the Nordic Countries by Iakimova, Olga (2018) - Based on the resulting findings, the article concludes that the massive surge of votes for xenophobic parties in the Nordic countries might seem to imply that it reflected an equally massive surge of xenophobic attitudes but this was not the case. Xenophobic attitudes showed the opposite trend. Keywords: attitudes; countries; identity; immigrants; level; national; nordic; people; society; xenophobic
• Tyumen Embankment: Urban Hubris as a Trigger for the Transformation of Urban Identity by Bogomyakov, Vladimir G.; Chistyakova, Marina G. (2022) - In the second half of KEYWORDS urban identity, place identity, embankment, public space, urban hubris ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work was supported by the RFBR and Tyumen Region under Grant №20–411–720007. Thus, pride becomes a source of place identity, resulting in urban identity. Keywords: citizens; city; embankment; hubris; human; identity; new; people; place; pride; project; public; river; self; sense; space; tyumen; urban
• Integrative Model of Shared Reality and Identity-Emotion-Efficacy Factors of Pro-Environmental Action by Shadiqi, Muhammad Abdan; Hasan, Khaerullah Fadhli Arasy; Mustafa, Nabila Regita Putri; Saubari, Ahmad; Nafarin, Husein; Asfajar, Ayub Faizal; Putra, Muhammad Iqbal Suryawan; Fajaryanti, Nining; Hasan, Kamarul (2024) - Based on this notion, large groups of social communities need to be involved in collective action, and psychology needs to offer tools for overcome this action, one of which is pro-environmental action (Barth et al., 2021). Stern (2000) created a taxonomy of pro-environmental actions, two of which are implemented in the public (e.g., environmental activism) and private (e.g., recycling at the individual level) spheres. Keywords: action; anger; environmentalist; group; group efficacy; hasan; identity; indonesia; kelompok; meratus; model; movement; muhammad; psychology; reality; relationship; reliability; save; saya; scale; study; yang
• Personality Traits and Common Ingroup Identity: Support for Refugee Policies Among Host Members by Çoksan, Sami; Kekeli, Burak; Turgut, Buse; Sağdış, Elif (2024) - In almost all models, CII is positively associated with positive social policies and negatively related to negative social policies. In Study 1, agreeableness, extraversion, openness, narcissism, and psychopathy were associated with support for positive social policies. Keywords: attitudes; cii; group; identification; identity; intergroup; members; model; personality; personality traits; policies; refugees; study; support; syrian; traits
• Saudi National Day: Conservatism Versus Modernity in the Light of Saudi Vision 2030 by Aldossry, Theeb Mohammed (2024) - In the context of Saudi National Day celebrations, sectarianism is not a prominent feature, as the celebrations are largely focused on promoting a unifying national identity and downplaying any potential religious or ethnic divisions within Saudi society. Recommendations In light of the findings, the article recommends encouraging public-private partnerships to develop innovative programs that promote cultural heritage and national identity as part of the Saudi Vision 2030 initiatives, establishing national recognition and reward systems to celebrate individuals and organizations that make exceptional contributions towards the realization of Saudi Vision 2030, integrating the theme of national unity and pride into the design and content of Saudi National Day celebrations to foster a stronger sense of belonging among citizens, leveraging digital platforms and technologies to create immersive, interactive experiences that engage the public, especially the youth, in celebrating Saudi identity and culture, and conducting regular surveys and feedback mechanisms to assess the evolving perceptions and attitudes of the Saudi public towards the national day celebrations and Saudi Vision 2030. Keywords: aldossry; arabia; article; celebrations; countries; country; day; identity; islamic; kingdom; modernity; nationalism; saudi; saudi arabia; society; university; vision
• Unpacking the “Bihariness”—Reflections on “Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi” by Tripathi, Anup; Das, Moitrayee (2024) - Even after living in a place for a long period and offering valuable services through their labor, Bihari migrant workers are treated as the “other” and the “outsider.” The exclusions of Bihari migrant workers, along with registers of poverty and social space, language and ethnicity (Redclift, 2016), are structured through perceived criminality. Keywords: bihari; bihariness; caste; class; delhi; economic; health; identity; indian; jha; migrant; migration; workers
• Self-Shooting Uterus-Owners: Examining the Selfies of Pregnant Transmen within the Politics of Human Reproduction by Andal, Aireen Grace T. (2019) - These immediate reading of pregnant transmen selfies as a form of objectification, while has its own merits, nullify preceding practice of agency by pregnant transmen. This thus gives transpregnant selfies their liminal character of both abnormal and normal at the same time. Keywords: bodies; body; doi; gender; identity; media; moralization; new; people; selfies; trans; transmen; transpregnancy
• “So the Last Will Be First”: Cancel Culture as an Instrument of Symbolic Policy by Anikin, Daniil A.; Ivanova, Dina D. (2024) - To gain a deeper understanding of the specifics and 1 https://blacklivesmatter.com 2 https://metoomvmt.org https://changing-sp.com/ https://blacklivesmatter.com https://metoomvmt.org 852 Daniil A. Anikin, Dina D. Ivanova role of cancel culture in social spaces, we are going to turn to P. Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic politics. The Structure of Symbolic Space and the Mechanisms of Social Exclusion Considering social space as a “multidimensional space, an open set of fields that are relatively autonomous” (Bourdieu, 1985), we can also speak of an inherent fragmentation within this space. Keywords: bourdieu; cancel; cancelers; capital; communities; community; culture; group; identity; new; space
• Navigating Digital Borders: Seto Community in the Virtual Territory of the VK Social Network by Maretina, Ksenya A. (2025) - KEYWORDS digital ethnography, Seto community, virtual community, VK, VKontakte, social network, cyberspace, Indigenous peoples of Russia © 2025 Ksenya A. Maretina ksenya.maretina23@gmail.com https://changing-sp.com/ mailto:ksenya.maretina23@gmail.com 68 Ksenya A. Maretina Introduction In 2005, a book called Narod Setu: Mezhdu Rossiei i Estoniei In this research, Seto profile pages are treated as private territories, and all personal information is anonymized. Keywords: communities; community; culture; identity; information; museum; network; pages; people; posts; profile; research; seto
• Ethnic Identities in Virtual Space by Belorussova, Svetlana Yu. (2025) - Our analysis of the contradictory phenomenon of virtual ethnicity is, in essence, an attempt to understand whether virtual ethnicity is a simulacrum or ethnic Renaissance. [Indigenous small-numbered peoples of Russia: Virtual ethnicity and network experiences]. Keywords: communities; ethnicity; identity; media; research; study; values
• Order, Loyalty, and Polarization in a Public Debate: Evidence from a Russian-Language Online Experiment by Volchenkov, Dimitri; Korley, Daniel; Lebedev, Alexander N. (2025) - Statement 34 (loyal; Loyalty Index = 9): А я вот думаю, что в новом Я думаю, что в понятие счастья обязательно должно входить чувство патриотизма. Keywords: age; cluster; cohort; content; dc(s; identity; index; loyalty; loyalty index; order; polarization; statement; trust; youth; будет; все; как; министерство; счастья; что; это; −12
• Second-Order Arguments, or Do We Still Need Tolerance in the Public Sphere? by Loginov, Aleksei V. (2020) - Debate on Religious Pluralism Avishai Margalit (1996) believes that religious toleration and religious pluralism are impossible due to the following reasons: 1. Functionalism as defense of religious toleration is quite effective but to what extent can this argument be described as religious? Keywords: arguments; beliefs; case; identity; interference; order; recognition; second; toleration; way

• Time Allocation and Economic Contribution of Women in Fulfilling the Basic Needs of Poor Households by Hos, Jamaluddin; Upe, Ambo; Arsyad, Muhammad; Hasniah, Halu (2021) - The activity of breaking stones is usually suspended during the rainy season or when the stone is too wet to break. The income earned by female stone breakers varies because it depends on the amount of time allocated to breaking stones and the volume of performed work (splintered stones). Keywords: activities; breaking; data; economic; family; gender; household; income; needs; poverty; research; stone; time; women; work
• Gender-Related Attitudes toward Homosexuality in Greece by Konstantinidis, Christos; Bebetsos, Evangelos; Filippou, Filippos; Zetou, Eleni (2021) - Firstly, the spread of HIV/AIDS, which caused the death of thousands of gay men, and secondly, it became apparent that the share of homosexual men in general population was in fact quite substantial (E. Anderson, 2009b). Heterosexism in campus recreational club sports: An exploratory investigation into attitudes toward gay men and lesbians. Keywords: analysis; attitudes; factor; gay; greece; greek; homophobia; homosexuality; journal; lesbians; men; reliability; scale; women
• Coastal Bodies and Childhood Memories: Exploring Baby Boomers' Gendered Memories of the Waterfront in Virac, Catanduanes by Andal, Aireen Grace T. (2022) - Finally, late childhood recollections are at the centre of discussion in examining waterfront memories since the exploration of past childhoods from auto- ethnographic and oral history approaches offers resources for reimagining how history can be differently conceived, how relationships between the sea and Virac’s people can be understood in more complex terms, and how childhood memories can interact with waterfront spaces. Notably, this captures Haug’s vision for memory work as “the process whereby individuals construct themselves into existing social relations” (1987, p. 33). Keywords: bodies; boomers; feminist; gendered; history; memories; memory; narratives; participants; port; sea; spaces; virac; waterfront; women; work; years
• Informal Sperm Donation in Russia by Polyakova, Irina G. (2021) - In Russia, according to the Order No. 803н O poriadke ispol’zovaniia vspomogatel’nykh reproduktivnykh tekhnologii, protivopokazaniiakh i ogranicheniiakh k ikh primeneniiu [On the procedure of the use of assisted reproduction technologies, contraindications and limitations of their application] issued by the Ministry of Health on July 31, 2020, men aged 18–35, physically and mentally healthy, have the right to be sperm donors after undergoing medical screening and genetic testing. Sperm donors can be anonymous as well as non-anonymous (O poriadke ispol’zovaniia, 2020). Keywords: child; children; donation; donors; family; online; recipients; reproduction; respondents; sperm; time; women
• At the Crossroads of Marriage: Experiences of Young Urban Middle-Class Women Negotiating Family and Sexuality Within Heterosexual Intimate Relationships in North India by Lamba, Tanya (2022) - Young women are challenging gendered power relations, traditional family structures, and marriage norms in their everyday lives. The parental love, care, and concern then become forms of controlling young women within their own homes. Keywords: caste; class; family; marriage; partner; relationship; sexuality; social; structures; women
• Patriarchal Language Evaluation of Muslim Women’s Body, Sexuality, and Domestication Discourse on Indonesian Male Clerics Preaching by Leiliyanti, Eva; Dewi, Dhaurana Atikah; Putri, Larasati Nur; Fariza, Fariza; Saputra, Zufrufin; Wiyakintra, Andera; Albab, Muhammad Ulul (2022) - Relevant issues in these discourses arguably lie in the research on hijab, sharia law on women’s bodies, sexuality, and domestication, Islamic feminism, women’s bodies, sexuality, and domestication (Beta, 2014; Bhowon & Bundhoo, 2016; Yulikhah, 2016; Zempi, 2020), examines how young computer savvy Muslim women community (Hijabers Community, n.d.) in urban Indonesia through the use of fashion hijab and promote them on the blog, and social networking sites (SNS) successfully challenges western media representation of Muslim women, i.e., “domesticated and silenced” in a patriarchal society and the academic divide between “Islam versus Western capitalist”. However, this modernization does not affect how Muslim women see hijab in Malaysia. Keywords: basalamah; bodies; body; channel; clause; clerics; discourse; domestication; gus; hidayat; hijab; husbands; indonesia; islamic; language; muslim; muwafiq; preaching; sexuality; wives; women
• Forgotten Territories in the Iranian Home: Issues of Segregation by Valibeigi, Mojtaba; Maroofi, Sakineh; Danay, Sara (2022) - Home spaces are seen as those shaped by inclusion, exclusion, and power relations. Communication factors determine relationships between various house spaces, including a range of semi-public, semi-private, and private spaces. Keywords: activities; culture; family; gender; home; house; iranian; place; privacy; public; research; segregation; space; syntax; women
• The Influence of Socio-Cultural Factors on Oocyte Donors' Motivations and Disclosure Decisions by Polyakova, Irina G.; Mazurov, Dmitry O.; Symanyuk, Elvira E.; Khramtsova, Aleksandra Yu. (2022) - All of them were patients of two fertility clinics located in the city of Yekaterinburg (Russia) planning to become oocyte donors within the period from 2 weeks to 3 months. KEYWORDS oocyte donations, oocyte donors’ motivations, barriers to oocyte donation, anonymity of oocyte donors ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The study was conducted within the framework of the RSF grant No. 22-28-01694 dated December 20, 2021 https://changing-sp.com/ 596 Irina G. Polyakova, Dmitry O. Mazurov, ... Aleksandra Yu. Keywords: decision; donation; donors; egg; et al; family; friends; motivations; oocyte; respondents; study; women
• Reframing Bodies: New Coordinates of the Body Image by Antonova, Natalya L.; Abramova, Sofya B.; Polyakova, Viktoria V. (2023) - The use of an integrative approach allows us to examine the relevance of body models in different domains (family, work, etc.). Therefore, studying the mechanisms that maintain the stability of body models even in social upheavals such as a pandemic may represent a further research interest. Keywords: bodies; body; body image; body model; body type; factor; female; ideal; pandemic; people; practices; respondents; standards; women
• Trends in the Transformation of Gender Stereotypes: Representation of Women’s Image in the Modern Media Space of Kazakhstan by Baskynbayeva, Nazym; Massalimova, Aliya; Omirbekova, Aliya; Kuderina, Aizhan; Abikenov, Zharkynbek (2024) - Social media, however, do not present an independent information source, as they contain built-in messages and narratives that contribute to the formation of social beliefs and norms, particularly with respect to gender norms. The impact of the use of social media on women and girls. Keywords: advertising; context; equality; gender; image; information; kazakhstan; mass; media; media space; politics; representation; research; roles; social; space; stereotypes; study; women
• Exploring the Complexities of Dating Violence in Indonesia: Understanding Dynamics, Norms, and Strategies for Prevention by Purwanti, Ani; Shaluhiyah, Zahroh; Widjanarko, Bagoes; Natalis, Aga (2024) - Sexual violence is the most prevalent form of violence experienced by victims, with 8,585 incidents reported. Sexual violence encompasses the act of compelling someone to engage in sexual intercourse against their desires. Keywords: abuse; empowerment; gender; health; individuals; indonesia; law; partner; power; programs; relationships; research; undang; victims; violence; women
• Gendered Societies and Leadership Trajectories: A Qualitative Study of Women in the Indian Civil Services by Gaikwad, Hemlata Vivek; Pandey, Suruchi (2025) - Accepted 23 February 2025 Published online 12 July 2025 ARTICLE Gendered Societies and Leadership Trajectories: A Qualitative Study of Women in the Indian Civil Services Hemlata Vivek Gaikwad, Suruchi Pandey Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India ABSTRACT This qualitative study explores the lived experiences of women leaders in the Indian Civil Services. (Trans. by H. V. G. & S. P.) Life cycle stages were reported as a barrier by women participants. Keywords: career; challenges; experiences; female; gender; leadership; participants; positions; study; support; trans; women; work
• Sociocultural Factors Hindering Public Communication of Positive Body Image in Kazakhstan by Filipov, Milen; Askarkyzy, Adel; Aqarabi, Mehdi (2025) - Body image includes two mutually exclusive aspects: negative and positive (Rogers et al., 2018). The sociocultural model of body image is critical in developing and maintaining a negative body image by internalizing an ideal thin body standard (Thompson & Stice, 2001). Keywords: beauty; bodies; body; body image; dissatisfaction; family; fashion; influence; instagram; journal; kazakhstan; media; perceptions; research; respondents; self; study; women

• The End of European Modernity? by Wagner, Peter (2017) - We need to look at transformations of European modernity to develop a sense of rise and decline. Given the explicitness and radicality of the ways in which the human condition was being rethought in Enlightenment philosophy, the view became widespread that this marked the onset of European modernity – and, by implication, of modernity tout court. Keywords: democracy; european; freedom; model; modernity; self; west; world
• Julian Baggini (2018). How The World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy. London: Granta by Dudchik, Andrei Yu. (2020) - In the final part, Baggini summarizes his survey of world philosophical traditions and offers his understanding of the major regional traditions of philosophical thought. At least since the 19th century attempts to analyse world history of philosophy including various periods and regions existed, but today we have much more factual knowledge about various philosophical traditions and some new methodologies of qualitative as well as quantitative analysis. Keywords: baggini; history; philosophy; self; traditions; world
• Media Culture of a Globalised World: Evolution of Language Technologies by Kirillova, Natalia B. (2020) - The priority of screen media culture has rapidly grown to become the globally dominant form. In this regard, the methods of language formation, its evolution, main trends and development are the subject of research interest, which also includes the language of media culture as an information-age phenomenon that affects the process of globalisation. Keywords: communication; culture; dialogue; forms; information; language; media; media culture; moscow; reality; screen; space; system; world
• Effects of Modernization and Globalization on Values Change in the Arab World by Abduljaber, Malek (2018) - Analysts and experts on the Middle East rely on sheer conjecture and speculation when describing, prescribing, or prognosing Arab world political development (Zogby, 2002; Robbins & Tessler, 2012). KEYWORDS modernization, globalization, public opinion, Arab world, survey research https://changing-sp.com/ 162 Malek Abduljaber Introduction There are many questions about the Arab world that have remained unanswered by political science (Campante & Chor, 2012; Hamarneh, Hollis, & Shiqāqī, 1997; Lynch, 2013; Ryan & Schwedler, 2004; Tessler & Jamal, 2006; Tessler, et al., 2012; Zogby, 2002; Bayat, 2013). Keywords: algeria; arab; attitudes; citizens; globalization; jordan; lebanon; morocco; opinion; public; research; survey; tessler; values; world
• Editor's Note by Stepanova, Elena A. (2018) - Martianov goes deeply into paradoxes of Modernity, where persons as politically active subjects play important role in social changes, and at the same time are seen by the state as a threat to political powers, and pays special attention to the spread of the “schizophrenic type of social subject, which loses its ability to effectively organise its interests over the course of history”. In the paper Socio-Cultural Differences in Social Exclusion, Juan Díez- Nicolás and Ana Maria López-Narbona reflects upon the very sharp and controversial issue – social exclusion, which without exaggeration should be considered as a main concern worldwide. Keywords: exclusion; paper; values; world
• Environmental Imaginaries of the Arctic in the 21st Century Travel Writing by Purgina, Ekaterina S.; Menshikov, Andrey S. (2023) - KEYWORDS travel writing, Arctic imaginaries, environmental imaginaries, Anthropocene © 2023 Imaginaries of the Arctic in Travel Literature There have been several major shifts in the way the Arctic was imagined: starting from the legendary Ultima Thule, “a place lying between the worlds of gods and men” (Kavenna, 2005), to “an empty space to which outsiders are entitled” (Hanrahan, 2017), a frontier, wilderness, wasteland, a “spot on the world’s fringes,” which made a perfect 1 See, for example, Arctic Ice in Arctic Archives: Keywords: arctic; cold; environmental; glassley; history; human; ice; imaginaries; impressions; time; travel; water; world
• From Informal to Formal: Features of Volunteering in Arab Countries by Ivanov, Viacheslav A.; El Eryan, El Sayed (2024) - Accepted 15 March 2024 Published online 5 April 2024 ARTICLE IN THE SPECIAL SECTION From Informal to Formal: Features of Volunteering in Arab Countries Viacheslav A. Ivanov National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia El Sayed El Eryan Nonprofit Association “International Organization for Volunteerism”, Alexandria, Egypt ABSTRACT The paper examines the potential of Arab volunteers in solving social problems in their communities. The study identifies distinctive features of Arab volunteers engaged in diverse forms of helping behavior, including their social, demographic, and other characteristics. Keywords: arab; countries; nonprofit; organizations; participation; people; research; respondents; trust; volunteering; volunteers; world
• On the Way to a Secularized Theology: Why Today’s Disapproval of an Atemporal God Is Gaining Momentum? by Shokhin, Vladimir K. (2024) - Eternal God: A study of God without time (2nd ed.). KEYWORDS analytic theology, timelessness, changelessness, temporalism, creationism, Christianity, Neoplatonism, Islam, Hinduism, post-secular society © 2024 Vladimir K. Shokhin vladshokhin@yandex.ru https://changing-sp.com/ 890 Vladimir K. Shokhin Introduction It was not until the mid-20th century with the provocative challenge from Charles Hartshorne (1948, 1984) who insisted on “Divine relativity”1 that the timelessness of God became a general topic of discussion in Western theology. Keywords: atemporality; christian; divine; eternity; god; press; theism; theology; time; timeless; university; world
• Fourth Industrial Revolution and Emotional Intelligence: A Conceptual and Scientometric Analysis by Campa, Riccardo (2020) - KEYWORDS Fourth industrial revolution, emotional intelligence, scientometrics, topical analysis, conceptual analysis, sociology of science https://changing-sp.com/ Changing Societies & Personalities, 2020, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. In the same year, Bo Xing and Tshilidzi Marwala discuss the relations between education, fourth industrial revolution and emotional intelligence in the article Keywords: book; economic; fourth; industrial; intelligence; mayer; new; publications; research; revolution; salovey; science; space; term; use; work; world
• Conformity in Modern Science: An Engine of Societal Transformation? by Popova, Natalia Gennadievna; Moiseenko, Yan Yurievich; Beavitt, Thomas Alexander (2017) - Conformity in science is predicted to involve consequences at three distinct levels: (1) within a scientific community, when scientists follow prescribed patterns of conduct; (2) within a particular society when people from all walks of life conform to the standards set by the scientised world-view; and (3) at the global level when non-western communities conform to western standards of life through borrowing western scientific world picture. In this paper, we provide a phenomenological study of conformity on the basis of a comprehensive literature analysis and evaluate its role as a mode of existence in modern science. Keywords: conformity; existence; heidegger; human; imrad; mode; order; research; science; technologies; technology; terms; view; vol; world
• Discourse of Modernist Heritage and New Ways of Thinking about Socialist Urban Areas in Eastern Europe by Ilchenko, Mikhail S. (2019) - The emotional and symbolical rejection of socialist urban heritage was evidently a natural reaction to the social transformations of the 1990s. At the moment, the ways of speaking about socialist urban heritage seem to be no less important than the practical mechanisms of its implementation. Keywords: architecture; cities; city; districts; eastern; europe; heritage; katowice; modernist; new; past; public; sotsgorod; soviet; uralmash; urban; world

• The End of Utopias? by Fishman, Leonid (2017) - Political discourses of the rising minority Adhering to the position of K. Mannheim, we proceed from the assumption that utopianism, at least in the epoch of capitalism, creates rising classes (Mannheim, 1991, p. 122). In the past, utopias that transformed the spirit of capitalism were associated with rising classes, which constituted, if not a majority of the population, then a very significant (quantitatively and qualitatively) part thereof: hence the “Third Estate”, the working class and, finally, the “middle class”. Keywords: capitalism; class; consciousness; end; future; groups; majority; service; society; utopias
• The Value of Work-Related Uncertainty: Changes from Demands on Certainty to Finding Ways of Living in Uncertainty by Müller, Michal (2021) - The analysis by Gina Neff (2012) is also worthy of interest in relation to work uncertainty. Greater willingness to face work uncertainty can also be seen in the younger generations, as evidenced by the data from sociological and demographic research: generations Y and Z are more willing to change jobs and have different work preferences than older generations (see: McCrindle, 2014). Keywords: context; economy; employment; freedom; management; mises; müller; pandemic; risk; society; uncertainty; von; work
• Humorous Portrayals of Celebrities in the Mass Media During the 2021 Papal Visit to Slovakia by Polievková, Petra; Rončáková, Terézia; Tkáčová, Hedviga (2023) - Within the context of Slovak memes and caricatures, the Pope is often considered a celebrity who has not directly chosen his status, but that his position has been attributed to him by the very nature of the post that he fills. 188–212 191 contemporary political issues, and therefore a crucial element of the research was aimed at identifying the main features and differences in the depiction of the Pope and that of selected Slovak political celebrities. Keywords: analysis; caricatures; celebrities; celebrity; church; content; depictions; figure; francis; humor; media; memes; politicians; pope; research; sample; slovak; slovakia; society; study; tonality; visit
• Public Trust and Perception of Justice in Law Enforcement in Kazakhstan by Sailau, Kuanysh; Dabyltayeva, Makpal; Ibraimova, Assem; Toktarov, Yermek (2025) - These reforms, particularly the Just Kazakhstan initiative, provide a timely and unique backdrop for examining how public perceptions of justice influence trust in law enforcement. Public trust in law enforcement agencies is a critical issue; however, key factors influencing this trust remain underexplored. Keywords: citizens; enforcement; institutions; justice; kazakhstan; law; leas; perception; police; public; research; social; society; theory; trust; variable
• Social Media, Cultural Values, and Digital Citizenship: A Study of Iranian Digital Natives by Tabatabaei, Sara; Bulgarova, Bella A.; Trofimova, Galina N.; Barabash, Victor V. (2025) - Consequently, drawing from Goffman’s theory, one can assert that the pursuit of self-expression on social media is closely linked to adherence to social values, and the influence of users’ presence and activity on those values is also a significant factor. [The role of social media on social values (a case study of citizens over 18 years of age in Tehran)] Keywords: adherence; content; culture; digital; engagement; individuals; influence; media; natives; research; role; societies; society; study; tabatabaei; users; values

• Risk Perception, Self-Efficacy, Trust in Government, and the Moderating Role of Perceived Social Media Content During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Hassan, Mohmmed Salah; Al Halbusi, Hussam; Najem, Ali; Razali, Asbah; Abdel Fattah, Fadi Abdel Muniem; Williams, Kent A. (2021) - Hence, public risk perception and self-efficacy can help individuals understand and manage their responses (Reynolds & Seeger, 2005; Vos & Buckner, 2016). McCarthy, Brennan, De Boer, and Ritson (2008) argued that one critical factor affecting risk perception is how the media shape public risk perception. Keywords: content; covid-19; efficacy; et al; government; health; information; journal; media; pandemic; people; public; quality; research; risk; risk perception; self; trust
• Peculiarities of Modern Nationalist Messages in Online Political Communication: The Analyses of Donald Trump’s and Jair Bolsonaro’s Election Campaigns by Novoselova, Olga V. (2020) - There is now a growing body of literature on populism, and in the emerging field of populist political communication, which has mainly concentrated on media effects and mediated populism in Europe (Aalberg et al., 2016). It often focuses on identifying discursive strategies that are broadly shared across movements and content, rather than on how nationalist populist communication is articulated between each other in the online messages of politicians. Keywords: analysis; bolsonaro; campaigns; communication; donald; election; jair; media; messages; nationalism; people; populism; research; social; studies; study; trump; viii
• Cartoon Image of the Mother, Its Perception by Elementary School Students and Correction in the Process of Media Education by Kyshtymova, Irina M.; Matveeva, Lidia V.; Deineko, Anastasia A. (2021) - During the research, the following objectives were formulated: (a) to develop an algorithm for psychological analysis of cartoons in order to determine their potential impact on children; (b) to carry out a psychological analysis of cartoons featuring mother images; (c) to analyze the specifics of perception of different cartoon mother images by younger schoolchildren; (d) to determine the correspondence between schoolchildren’s semantic assessment of cartoon mother images and the hypothetically assumed psychological potential of the cartoons; (e) to conduct a developmental experiment aimed at correcting the mother image in the minds of younger schoolchildren. Semantic Assessment of the Cartoons by Elementary School Students 70 elementary school students 9–10 years old (36 girls and 34 boys) took part in the study of perception of cartoon mother images. Keywords: analysis; cartoon; children; image; impact; media; mother; perception; pig; school; students; study
• Surviving COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Social Media and Family Social Capital in Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle in Indonesia by Sudarmanti, Rini; Wahyuti, Tri; Naomi, Prima (2021) - The results show that the awareness of a healthy lifestyle is most likely affected by family social capital rather than social media use. KEYWORDS promotion, healthy lifestyle, social media use, family social capital, COVID-19 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This research is funded by the Paramadina Women Institute (Point) and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology of Republic Indonesia through the program of Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) https://changing-sp.com/ Changing Societies & Personalities, 2021, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. Keywords: awareness; capital; communication; covid-19; family; health; indonesia; information; level; lifestyle; media; media use; members; number; pandemic; people; study; use
• Interactivity as a Vector of the Socialization of Art by Bogomyakov, Vladimir; Chistyakova, Marina (2018) - [Media art. Interactivity is considered in terms of an important socialization factor in the various modifications of interactive art, including participatory art, as well as collaborative and collective artistic practices. Keywords: actions; art; artist; digital; interactivity; kind; means; media; performance; process; public; time; viewer; work
• Putting Fame and Celebrity in a Psychosocial Framework: A Scientific Analysis by Ahadi, Mostafa; Shahidi, Shahriar (2023) - Fame and the social self: The need to belong, narcissism, and relatedness predict the appeal of fame. Media fame for shooters: Does mass media encourage copycat crimes? Keywords: analysis; articles; celebrity; fame; field; journal; media; psychology; research; studies
• Cultural Dynamics in Social Commerce: An In-Depth Analysis of Consumer Behavior and Interaction Patterns by Nouri Dehnavi, Fatemeh; Sioofy Khoojine, Negar (2025) - Our first research question—How do the dynamics of social commerce influence consumer behavior in Tehran?—examines how social media affects traditional consumption and interaction. Cultural attitudes towards technology, trust in online platforms, and the perception of social interactions can shape how individuals view social media commerce. Keywords: analysis; behavior; commerce; consumer; consumer behavior; consumption; customer; dynamics; factor; impact; influence; media; online; platforms; product; research; shopping; social; social commerce; trust; values; variables
• What Motivates Social Media Users to Share Fake News, and What are its Impacts? A Systematic Literature Review by Abu Hassan Shaari, Azahah; Kamaluddin, Muhammad Rahim; Abidin, Zainal; Pitchan, Muhammad Adnan; Munusamy, Shalini (2025) - A Systematic Literature Review Azahah Abu Hassan Shaari Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM Bangi, Malaysia Mohammad Rahim Kamaluddin Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM Bangi, Malaysia Zainal Abidin Universitas Padjadjaran, West Java, Indonesia Muhammad Adnan Pitchan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM Bangi, Malaysia Shalini Munusamy International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ABSTRACT The use of fake news to deceive the public, manipulate opinions, and advance various agendas has posed significant challenges in its dissemination online. These insights will help stakeholders with knowledge to count fake news and reduce its societal harm. Keywords: articles; countries; dissemination; et al; inc; media; misinformation; news; online; sharing; trademark; twitter; u.s; решению; роскомнадзора; сеть; социальная
• Recent Developments in the Anthropology of Digital Media: Exploring the Influencer Phenomenon by Chernyaeva, Natalia A. (2025) - She supplemented these methods with the discourse analysis of changing public views on influencers and influencer culture across many media outlets. The monograph Influencer Politics: At the Intersection of Personal, Political, and Promotional extends the discussion of influencer culture and its intersection with politics, initiated by Hund (Arnesson & Reinikainen, 2024). Keywords: chapter; content; culture; hund; industry; influencer; media

• Experiences in “Letting the Public in”: Tentative Conclusions on the Administration-Public Tango for Co-Responsible Local Governance by Cernicova-Buca, Mariana (2024) - It builds on the author’s participation in monitoring or steering citizen participation processes and/or participation as a member of target groups in processes curated by administrative bodies since 1990. Public participation itself is a legitimate topic of inquiry since there are numerous examples of lack of interest or willingness to participate in public life, despite existing frameworks, as shown by Sherry Arnstein (1969), who identifies eight levels of involvement of citizens in public life. Keywords: action; administration; citizens; city; council; creation; democracy; european; participation; participatory; process; processes; public; research; romania; social; timișoara
• Phenomenon of Altruism: Current Youth Perceptions From the Historical and Sociological Perspectives by Antonova, Natalya L.; Levchenko, Ilia E.; Popova, Natalia G. (2025) - As a special type of banal altruism, they identify research altruism, which is inherent in people who participate in scientific projects that promote public benefit. A different (structural-functional) approach was developed by Robert Merton, who defined institutional altruism as a special form of altruism in which structural regulation, specifically the distribution of rewards and punishments, promotes behavior that is useful for others (Rubtsova & Martianova, 2012). Keywords: altruism; behavior; female; generation; help; informants; n. p.; people; person; public; research; sociology; trans; years; youth

• Narcissism and Political Left-Right Orientation in View of Basic Human Values: A Sample of Faculty of Management Students From Turkey by Selçuk, Fatma Ülkü; Güngör, Nil Demet (2022) - 764–784 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2022.6.4.202 Received 11 February 2022 © 2022 Fatma Ülkü Selçuk, Nil Demet Güngör Accepted 10 December 2022 fatmaulku.selcuk@asbu.edu.tr Published online 30 December 2022 nil.gungor@atilim.edu.tr ARTICLE Narcissism and Political Left-Right Orientation in View of Basic Human Values: A Sample of Faculty of Management Students From Turkey Fatma Ülkü Selçuk Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey Nil Demet Güngör Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey ABSTRACT A growing number of studies investigate the relationship between narcissism and political orientation. Given findings that link basic human values to narcissism and to political orientation, we also investigate the possibility of a mediating role for human values in this relation. Keywords: et al; leftwing; narcissism; orientation; personality; rightwing; self; social; tradition; turkey; universalism; values
• Belief Formation in the Social Context: A Bayesian Decision Account by Rigoli, Francesco (2022) - KEYWORDS Bayesian decision, belief, influence, persuasion, dominant group, intellectual https://changing-sp.com/ Changing Societies & Personalities, 2022, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. Dominant groups are defined as those particularly capable to affect other groups’ direct evidence and utility, while intellectual groups are regarded as those who are powerful in shaping other groups’ social evidence. Keywords: bdmb; beliefs; consensus; dominant; evidence; groups; influence; rigoli; social; utility
• Migrants From Central Asia in the Moscow Agglomeration: Social Well-Being and Demographic Attitudes by Osadchaya, Galina I.; Yudina, Tatyana N.; Volkova, Olga A.; Kireev, Egor Yu. (2024) - Table 1 Natural Population Growth and Decline in 2017–2021 in Moscow and Moscow Oblast per 1,000 People Year Moscow Moscow Oblast 2017 1.1 –0.4 2018 0.8 –1.2 2019 1.2 –2.5 2020 –2.0 –4.2 2021 –3.3 –6.8 Note. Traditionally, social attitudes are viewed as psychological and behavioral patterns based on an individual’s own experience and their close social environment. Keywords: agglomeration; attitudes; average; countries; family; index; migrants; migration; moscow; moscow oblast; oblast; people; population; social; tajikistan

• The Role of Intergenerational Differentiation in Perception of Employee Engagement and Job Satisfaction among Older and Younger Employees in Slovenia by Jelenko, Jernej (2020) - In summary, anyone who is subject to unfair or different treatment in the context of his or her employment on the basis of age experiences age discrimination in the workplace (Zacher & Steinvik, 2015). It was also found that perceived age discrimination has both a greater direct effect on job satisfaction among older employees and a greater indirect effect on older employees’ engagement than on younger employees’ job satisfaction and engagement. Keywords: age; age discrimination; differentiation; discrimination; doi; effect; employee; employee engagement; engagement; job; job satisfaction; journal; model; research; satisfaction; work; workplace
• Intergenerational Cooperation and Stereotypes in Relation to Age in the Working Environment by Brečko, Danijela (2021) - In terms of the variable “I feel fulfilled, my work serves a specific purpose”, where we detected statistically significant differences, it is clear that Generation Z has the lowest average rank (and therefore rated it as less important value), followed by Generation Y, the Baby-boom generation and Generation X – younger generations therefore assess this variable as less important compared to the older generations. The first is the content and influence of the beliefs of other generations on a particular generation. Keywords: baby; boom; boom generation; company; employees; employer; generation; stereotypes; work
• Perceived Efficacy of Virtual Leadership in the Crisis of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Bizilj, Sanja; Boštjančič, Eva; Sočan, Gregor (2021) - To test whether digital communication skills have a positive effect on leadership efficacy, we propose Hypothesis 4: Hypothesis 4: Digital communication skills have a positive effect on the perception of virtual leadership efficacy. This research contributes to the understanding of the factors that have the biggest influence on the belief in leadership efficacy in the context of a rapidly evolving system of remote work. Keywords: communication; efficacy; employees; group; home; leadership; leadership efficacy; lse; model; perception; research; self; work; working
• Resource Potential of Volunteers With Professional Knowledge for the Development of Regional Socially Oriented Non-Profit Organizations in Russia by Obukhov, Konstantin N. (2023) - Involvement of professionals in volunteer activities is studied on the example of Europe and the USA (Lukka, 2000; Pearce, 1993). In Russia, volunteer activity has been changing over time. Keywords: activities; employees; interaction; managers; npos; organization; professional; skills; volunteering; volunteers; work
• Impact of Abusive Supervision on Innovative Work Behavior in Turkey: Who Is More Affected? by Tatlı, Hasan Sadık; Öngel, Gökten; Süslü, Murat (2024) - [An investigation on the mediating role of employee innovation behavior on the relationship between autonomy and reward]. In addition, abusive supervision affects the innovative work behaviors of new employees more than those of former employees. Keywords: analysis; behaviors; employees; et al; iwb; journal; management; power; research; supervision; work
• “Who if Not a Mother?”: Development of Parental Leave Design in Russia by Bagirova, Anna P.; Blednova, Natalia D.; Neshataev, Aleksandr V. (2024) - KEYWORDS parental leave policy, leave-taker, motherhood, perception of parental leave, transformation of parental leave, parental labor ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant No. 22-28-01847, https://rscf.ru/project/22-28-01847/ © 2024 Anna P. Bagirova, Natalia D. Blednova, Aleksandr V. Neshataev a.p.bagirova@urfu.ru, n.d.blednova@urfu.ru, a.v.neshataev@urfu.ru https://changing-sp.com/ https://rscf.ru/project/22-28-01847/ mailto:a.p.bagirova@urfu.ru mailto:n.d.blednova@urfu.ru mailto:a.v.neshataev@urfu.ru Changing Societies & Personalities, 2024, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. Accepted 5 May 2024 Published online 21 July 2024 ARTICLE IN THE SPECIAL SECTION “Who if Not a Mother?”: Development of Parental Leave Design in Russia Anna P. Bagirova, Natalia D. Blednova, Aleksandr V. Neshataev Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia ABSTRACT There is an established system of parental leave in Russia. Keywords: a. b.; a. n.; child; family; fathers; female; informant; leave; maternity; mothers; n. b.; trans; work
• Youth Participation in Citizen Science: Problems and Opportunities of Engagement in Russian Context by Romashkina, Gulnara F.; Andrianova, Elena V.; Khudyakova, Marina V. (2024) - The status component, as expressed motives for achieving some significant results in the future, has the highest value in all three samples, reflecting a statistically significant (checked on the basis of Pearson’s Chi-squared criterion, Wilcoxon criterion, p < .01) upward influence of age while leveling the influence of experience of participation in citizen science projects (Figure 2). Figure 2 The Structure of the Components of the Supposed Motives in the Answers to the Question “What do You Think Could Motivate You to Take Part in Such Activities?”, % of the Respondents 123 92 89 128 113 121 125 63 60 V1 V2M (<19) V2S (19-35) cognitive-affective status behavioral https://changing-sp.com/ 122 Gulnara F. Romashkina, Elena V. Andrianova, Marina V. Khudyakova The cognitive-affective component significantly increases in the group of respondents who has an experience of participation in citizen science projects and weakly though statistically significantly depends on the age of the respondents. Keywords: citizen; citizen science; experience; participation; people; projects; research; researchers; sample; science; scientists; volunteers; work

• Justin O'Connor, and Xin Gu (2020). Red Creative. Culture and Modernity in China. Bristol: Intellect Books. by Trubina, Elena G. (2021) - Elena G. Trubina Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia “Red Creative” is a welcome, spirited and conceptually rich book that traces the adoption and development of creative industries in China. They capture the “deep” history of creative industries in this city, spanning the whole twentieth and the beginning of the twenty first century. Keywords: authors; book; creative; culture
• Unearthing the Role of Cultural Perception in Homeownership Behavior: A Conceptual Exploration by Mulyadi, Mulyadi; Ubaidillah, Nur Zaimah (2024) - Considering these various perspectives on intention, the key takeaway for explaining homeownership intention is the individuals’ mental and psychological state, which impacts their determination to follow through with their plan through actions. Therefore, homeownership intention is an overall picture of individuals’ mental and psychological state that shapes how determined they are to own a home, even in the face of various obstacles they may encounter. Keywords: behavior; control; cultural; culture; factors; homeownership; housing; influence; intention; journal; mulyadi; norms; perception; research; study; theory; tpb; values
• Not to Be Lost in Translation by Stepanova, Elena A. (2024) - In the second essay, “The Paradigm of Translation,” Ricoeur makes a distinction between two senses of translation: the strict sense, in the case of interlingual translation, and the broader sense, in the case of intralingual translation. He argues that interlingual translation shows that it is possible to translate in more than one way; intralingual translation goes further and shows that “it is always possible to say the same thing in another way” (p. 25). Keywords: article; authors; corruption; culture; language; ricoeur; saudi; study; translation

• Historical Responsibility, Historical Perspective by Tomiltseva, Daria (2017) - Historical responsibility as the unfolding of meaning But what is signified by the understanding of historical responsibility as an organisation of event interconnections, people and phenomena? Historical responsibility as an aspiration for the future The problem of historical responsibility as an aspiration for the future is developed to a lesser degree. Keywords: agamben; context; events; example; history; memory; past; pilate; responsibility; time; understanding; way
• Borth Waters and the Coastal Dreaming of a Midlander by Read, Richard (2022) - Still, in the 2011 census (Nomis, n.d.), 43% of the residents of Borth were largely Welsh speaking, and locals of all kinds harbour dislike of thoughtless Midlanders making nuisances of themselves through inconsiderate use of noisy jet skis on Borth waters. Water water everywhere (part 2). Keywords: anthony; bog; borth; caravan; carty; communication; community; english; film; history; https://changing-sp.com/; morris; nature; personalities; place; read; richard; sea; societies; space; time; village; voices; vol; wales; water; way; welsh
• Dynamics of "Conservative" and "Progressive" Narratives in the Era of Digital Transformation in Political Communications by Zavershinskiy, Konstantin F.; Koryushkin, Alexander I. (2025) - Temporal political narratives emerge from resolving the dichotomy inherent in the binary coding of power communications between conservative and progressive oppositions (Luhmann, 2001, pp. 24–44). It is therefore increasingly important to understand the relationship between “temporal regimes” in political memory and the processes of traditionalization within the binary coding of political communications as “conservative” or “progressive.” Keywords: actors; communications; conservative; digital; dynamics; elites; future; memory; narratives; past; present; process; regimes; time
• Russia’s Online Opposition Communities Before and During the Special Military Operation by Zhukov, Dmitry S.; Lyamin, Sergey K.; Seltser, Dmitry G. (2025) - The association between violent street actions and the emergence of pink noise in online protest communities was examined using the example of two online clusters (on Facebook2 and VK), one of which supported the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil in 2016 (Figure 2); the other the revolutions in Armenia in 2015 and 2018 (Figure 3). A cross- temporal approach was instrumental in understanding how the historical and political context, including the Ukraine conflict, influenced the willingness and readiness of online communities to generate protests. Keywords: cluster; communities; criticality; dmitry; lyamin; mobilization; network; nodes; online; opposition; self; soc; theory; time; zhukov

• The Dark Triad and Non-Normative Collective Action in the Save KPK Movement in Indonesia: The Mediation Effect of Contempt by Nugraha, Ahmad Helmi; Julian, Raehan Kautsar; Adiguna, Rudy; Hartono, Veronica Lioni; Kusuma, Donna; Shadiqi, Muhammad Abdan; Rusli, Rusdi (2023) - A path analysis model showed that Machiavellianism and psychopathy could significantly predict non-normative collective action under the mediation of group-based contempt. Non-normative collective action refers to behaviors that harm others and their rights (Wright et al., 1990). Keywords: action; analysis; contempt; dark; et al; group; hypothesis; kpk; machiavellianism; narcissism; personality; psychopathy; scale; study; triad; violence
• Innovations in Human Resource Management: A Bibliometric Analysis by Ali, Redar Hameed; Fedorova, Alena E. (2024) - Understanding the correlation between the use of HRM technologies and employee well-being, job satisfaction, and work-life balance could provide insights into how technology can be leveraged to improve not only organizational outcomes but also employee happiness and retention. The study concludes by suggesting avenues for future scholarly inquiry and practical applications in the field of HRM, focusing on understanding the correlation between the use of HRM technologies and employee well-being, job satisfaction, and work-life balance. Keywords: analysis; business; hrm; human; innovation; journal; keywords; management; practices; research; resource; review; study; technology
• How the Enlargement Affects European Union Legislative Process by Kaveshnikov, Nikolay Yu.; Domanov, Aleksey O. (2024) - Kaveshnikov Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), Moscow, Russia Aleksey O. Domanov Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia ABSTRACT This article contributes to the ongoing debate regarding the systemic impact of EU enlargements on the duration of the legislative process. KEYWORDS European Union, EU enlargement, legislative process, decision- making, legislative duration, survival analysis, Cox model, interrupted time series analysis © 2024 Nikolay Yu. Keywords: acts; analysis; council; decision; duration; enlargement; european; european union; impact; making; model; number; process; union
• Influence of Social Capital on Community Participation with Community Development as an Intervening Variable by Dulkiah, Moh.; Majid, Anggi Saeful (2025) - Dulkiah, Anggi Saeful Majid Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Gunung Djati, Bandung, Indonesia ABSTRACT This study aims to analyze the influence of social capital comprising trust, social networks, and social values on community development and community participation. A mixed- method approach was employed, combining a systematic literature review with path analysis, to provide both conceptual and empirical insights into the dynamics of social capital in community empowerment. Keywords: analysis; capital; community; community development; community participation; effect; influence; network; path; role; study; trust; value

• Editor's Note by Stepanova, Elena (2018) - In the search for an answer, she observes various theories, which provide interpretations of xenophobia, Published online 3 April 2018 © 2018 Elena Stepanova stepanova.elena.a@gmail.com 5Changing Societies & Personalities, 2018 Vol. 2, No. 1 explains the reasons to prefer the particular theory, and checks its relevance to the analysis of the roots of xenophobia in Nordic countries. The author stresses that the understanding of culture, values, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, colonial peripheries, etc. presented in canonical texts should not be taken for granted but “are highly in need of reexamination”. Keywords: body; countries; dance
• The Rhino, the Amazon and the Blue Sky over the Ruhr: Ecology and Politics in the Current Global Context by Mota, Aurea; Wagner, Peter (2019) - The concept of “ecological debt” arose from within environmentalist social movements from the 1980s onwards, including at major global environmental debates such as the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The high degree of global interconnectedness has given many environmental threats a global significance, as argued at the outset of this article, and it has also facilitated the rise of global environmental consciousness. Keywords: action; africa; agreement; brazil; change; climate; countries; environmental; europe; european; global; north; production; societies; south; wagner

• “Modernity continues to be what structures our historical self-understanding…” by Menshikov, Andrey (2017) - In his paper Apologia of Modernity, Victor Martianov recognises that modernity presents a continuing ideological problem within the social sciences; consequently, it tends to underlie other axiological, ontological and notional hierarchies. When the modernisation trajectories of alternative modernities failed to converge and the Communist version of modernity eventually collapsed, modernisation theory, with its most simplified version of “transitology”, came under severe criticism (Kapustin, 1998). Keywords: modernisation; modernity; self; societies; values
• Evolutionary Modernization Theory: Why People’s Motivations are Changing by Inglehart, Ronald F. (2017) - 142 Ronald F. Inglehart These two hypotheses generate several predictions concerning value change. This led to a process of intergenerational value change that has been transforming the politics and culture of high-income societies, and is likely to transform China, India and other rapidly-developing societies when they reach a stage where a large share of the population grows up taking survival for granted. Keywords: change; inglehart; modernization; new; norms; people; population; security; societies; survival; values
• A General Attitude towards Shopping and Its Link with Basic Human Values in the UK by Rigoli, Francesco (2021) - Here we focus on examining such GSA and in exploring its link with general value orientations such as valuing self-expression or valuing social status. 1): basic values appear to be distributed circularly but not evenly spaced, thus forming clusters (from which the definition of quasi-circular arrangement). Keywords: gsa; items; scale; self; shopping; status; values
• Beyond the Freakonomics of Religious Liberty by Strenski, Ivan (2017) - Changing Societies & Personalities, 2017 Vol. 1, No. 1 http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/csp.2017.1.1.003 Article Beyond the Freakonomics of Religious Liberty Ivan Strenski University of California, Riverside, USA ABSTRACT The paper critiques the prevailing liberal market economy models of religious liberty and religious encounter. “Freakonomics”, therefore, – whether in free market or monopoly form – does not, therefore, write the last page in the story of religious liberty. Keywords: armenia; churches; commission; freedom; guest; haac; liberty; market; model; new; religions; values; venice

• Influence of Self-Perception and Importance of Body Image on the Methods Implemented to Enhance the Physical Appearance by L V, Mithunasri; Jadhav, Anil (2021) - Self-Satisfaction Wilson et al. (2013) discovered a solid connection between body image satisfaction and health-related quality of life, which is physical and mental. On account of physical health, the point that body satisfaction held a more grounded prescient incentive than body mass index, which is a calculated ratio of a person’s height to weight is to be noted. Keywords: appearance; body; body image; image; implementation; importance; model; perception; research; satisfaction; self
• Cognitive Attitudes and Biases of Victim Mentality by Andronnikova, Olga O.; Kudinov, Sergey I. (2021) - The hypothesis that the study aims to test is that there is a correlation between the level of victimhood and the cognitive attitudes and biases that determine victim behaviour. The hypothesis was confirmed and correlations were found between the type of victim behaviour, victim mentality, dysfunctional attitudes and irrational beliefs. Keywords: attitudes; behaviour; beliefs; mentality; person; predisposition; research; self; victim; victim behaviour; victimhood
• Flourishing Among Emerging Adulthood: A Perspective From Anchor Personality by Istiqomah, Alifah Nur; Riyono, Bagus (2024) - The research question is: “To what extent do anchor virtues, anchor self, anchor others, and anchor materials predict flourishing among individuals in the emerging adulthood stage?” With that in mind, this study aimed to determine the relationship between anchor virtues, materials, self, and others on flourishing among emerging adulthood. Keywords: adulthood; anchor; flourishing; individuals; materials; meaning; model; perma; personality; relationship; research; results; riyono; self; study; virtues
• Moderated Mediating Effect of Behavioral Psychology on Generation Z’s Selfie-Posting Behavior: A Two-Stage Analytical Approach by Roy, Sanjoy Kumar; Arefin, Shamsun; Khan, Md. Rahat (2024) - Bangladesh Md. Rahat Khan Army Institute of Business Administration (Army IBA), Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating and moderating effects of body appreciation and exhibitionism on the relationships between self-esteem, narcissism, and Selfie-Posting Behavior (SPB), as well as on the moderating effect of attitude towards selfies (ATS) from the Generation Z perspective. The sensitivity analysis outcomes discovered that body appreciation has the most considerable effect on the SPB, with 89.18% normalized importance, followed by narcissism (87.02%), exhibitionism (72.66%), and self-esteem (48.95%). Keywords: appreciation; ats; behavior; body; body appreciation; esteem; exhibitionism; exm; khan; narcissism; posting; research; results; roy; self; selfie; spb; study
• Psychology of Leadership: Understanding AI Adoption, Self-Efficacy, Green Creativity, and Risk Perception among Oman’s Business Bosses by Abdelfattah, Fadi; Salah, Mohamed; Dahleez, Khalid; Al Halbusi, Hussam (2025) - Oman’s Vision 2040 underscores economic diversification and technological advancement, aligning AI adoption with national strategic priorities (Oman Vision 2040 Implementation Follow-up Unit, n.d.). However, the existing literature offers limited insights into the psychological impacts of AI adoption on top business leaders in Oman, leaving an opportunity to examine how collective cultural values, leadership beliefs, and organizational goals intersect. Keywords: adoption; ai adoption; business; creativity; efficacy; et al; green; halbusi; leaders; management; oman; perception; risk; salah; self; study; technology

• Editor’s Note by Stepanova, Elena A. (2020) - Thus, society is now facing a whole range of ethical and legal dilemmas, which results in some serious disagreements on crucial life issues, including reproductive technologies. In the paper, Jelenko analyses the features and routs of age discrimination, highlights the importance of its effects on job satisfaction and employee engagement across older and younger age groups – the ones that play a decisive role in the present and future job market in Slovenia, – and provide important insights into effects of age discrimination on job satisfaction and employee engagement, which could be useful for both human resource management and employees. Keywords: age; article; body; intelligence
• Plurality of Cases – Plurality of Values by Stepanova, Elena A. (2021) - In the article, particular examples of material culture (religious buildings and places) are analysed as elements of cultural memory in order to show their link to collective identity in India Papua New Guinea – the societies experiencing fundamental socio-cultural changes associated with the process of decolonization and the creation of a new national identity. The authors formulate research hypotheses with respect to seven independent variables in order to explain the notion of gender gap; as a result, some of them were confirmed and some rejected. Keywords: article; authors; memory; research; societies
• In Search for New Research Paradigms by Stepanova, Elena A. (2021) - The poly-paradigmatic nature of contemporary social knowledge implies its embeddedness in various theoretical systems that create alternative pictures of the world. On the one hand, social knowledge is pluralistic, that is, allowing for a plurality of equivalent explanatory concepts; on the other, it is interdisciplinary, that is, irreducible to the methodology of a single social or humanities discipline. Keywords: article; authors; knowledge; people; societies
• Authentic: The Word of the Year 2023 by Stepanova, Elena A. (2023) - Mostafa Ahadi and Shahriar Shahidi in the ARTICLE Putting Fame and Celebrity in a Psychosocial Framework: A Scientific Analysis pay attention to the impact of fame and such concepts as “celebrity,” “star,” and “influencer” on human life, and note that despite the significant expansion of academic research on celebrity, there is no coherent theory on fame in the field of psychology. In planning to introduce new interesting themes, we welcome suggestions from our readers and prospective authors for thematic issues, debate sections, or book reviews. Keywords: article; authenticity; authors; data; human; research; taylor; year

• Battles for Bandera: Dissonant Historical Narratives of Ukrainians in Poland and Problems of Integration by Golovashina, Oksana V. (2021) - 355–371 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2021.5.3.139 Received 21 June 2021 © 2021 Oksana V. Golovashina Accepted 8 September 2021 ovgolovashina@mail.ru Published online 11 October 2021 ARTICLE Battles for Bandera: Dissonant Historical Narratives of Ukrainians in Poland and Problems of Integration Oksana V. Golovashina Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia Derzhavin Tambov State University, Russia ABSTRACT The increasing flux of Ukrainian migrants into Poland increases the urgency of correlating Polish and Ukrainian historical narratives. In this article, problems of competing historical narratives, as well as correlations between historical conceptions and models of migrant integration, are examined with the reference to field research carried out with Ukrainian migrants living in Poland. Keywords: communities; community; country; history; host; informants; integration; memory; migrants; narrative; past; poland; polish; ukraine; ukrainian
• Words, River, Changes: Writing Lewiston, Maine by Costlow, Jane (2022) - 254–270 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2022.6.2.174 Received 10 March 2022 © 2022 Jane Costlow Accepted 20 May 2022 jcostlow@bates.edu Published online 11 July 2022 ESSAY Words, River, Changes: Writing Lewiston, Maine Jane Costlow Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, USA ABSTRACT This essay describes and reflects on the central river of a small post- industrial city in Maine (USA), interweaving the author’s experience of place with the voices of three local poets, as a way of considering how the city and its river have been represented—as pastoral, abject, beautiful, and hybrid. KEYWORDS Androscoggin River, Lewiston Maine, Marsden Hartley, Robert Chute, Susann Pelletier, hybrid, abject, pastoral There is something unfathomably essential about continually perceiving things anew [...] Over the past two decades groups within downtown Lewiston have worked hard to elevate the voices of those actually living within reach of the river, in those poorest-in-Maine census tracts. Keywords: androscoggin; auburn; bridge; chute; city; community; downtown; falls; hartley; lewiston; maine; mills; new; people; place; power; river; water; way
• The Fiesta and the Cerro. Rocksi Broadcasting on Social Media From Xaamkëjxp by Morales, Elena Nava (2025) - On the contrary, currently, Indigenous youth are familiar with technology, as evidenced by several studies on the use of the Internet and smartphones in Indigenous communities (Kummels, 2018; Nava Morales, 2019). The political and social organization of non-Western peoples, including Indigenous communities, is one of the fundamental themes in anthropology, as is kinship. Keywords: ayuujk; cargo; comisionados; community; elements; facebook; festejo; fiesta; hill; mexico; nava; people; rocksi; system; video; xaamkëjxp

• The Centre and Periphery: The Role of City Embankments and Youth Practices by Antonova, Natalya L.; Gurarii, Anna D. (2022) - 315–333 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2022.6.2.175 Received 17 February 2022 © 2022 Natalya L. Antonova, Anna D. Gurarii Accepted 20 May 2022 n-tata@mail.ru Published online 11 July 2022 anna.gurariy@urfu.ru ARTICLE The Centre and Periphery: The Role of City Embankments and Youth Practices Natalya L. Antonova Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia Anna D. Gurarii Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia ABSTRACT The article focuses on city embankments as social and spatial developments, which are an essential attribute of the city and an integral element in the lifestyle of citizens. KEYWORDS city, city embankment, centre and periphery, youth, social practices https://changing-sp.com/ 316 Natalya L. Antonova, Anna D. Gurarii Introduction In urban planning, there has been a transition to the “city for people” model, the foundation of which can be sought in the works of the American researcher Jane Jacobs (1961), who formulated the tenets in defence of urban planning based on the daily life of citizens. Keywords: centre; citizens; city; city embankments; embankments; female; flânerie; people; plotinka; practices; respondents; space; water; years
• Factors Influencing Nurses’ Decision to Join a Professional Association in Russia by Akimova, Natalia A.; Medvedeva, Elena N. (2020) - The factors contributing to the popularity of professional nurses associations can be quite diverse: starting from the formal obligations (chief and senior nurses are expected to be members of such organizations) and ending with personal interest and commitment to the organization’s goals and mission. We identified the main factors that determine nurses’ membership or non-membership in professional associations and distinguished between objective and subjective reasons as well as active or passive attitudes demonstrated by our respondents in this regard. Keywords: association; factors; medical; membership; nurses; nursing; organizations; professional; reasons; respondents; rna; years

• Editor’s Note by Stepanova, Elena A. (2020) - Following a comprehensive literature review, the authors analyse the role of nurse professional organizations as an important element of civil society, describe their history and present status in various countries, including Russia. The authors’ intention is to address the existing research gap in studying professional nurse associations in Russia. Keywords: authors; derrida; national; present; research

• Decanonized Reading: Intellectual Humility and Mindfulness in Reading Canonical Philosophical Writings by Andal, Aireen Grace Tomagan (2018) - Here, the goal is to examine the potential of an approach that prompts readers of philosophical texts to navigate the richness of different contexts and perspectives without being dependent on the Western agenda as the central frame of inquiry. That the readers of philosophical texts might be centering their approaches around the “canonical” tag is not to be taken lightly. Keywords: african; approach; canons; course; history; instance; new; philosophical; philosophy; reading; societies; texts; thinkers; thoughts; university
• Ronald Inglehart (2018). Cultural Evolution, People’s Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World. Cambridge University Press by López-Narbona, Ana Maria (2018) - Evolutionary modernization theory agrees, but argues that these societal changes are largely driven by the fact that modernization brings value changes that are causing the people of economically advanced societies to have systematically different motivations, and consequently different behavior, from the people of less developed societies.” This book builds on the author’s previous work concerning modernization as a multifaceted process of social change pivoting on value change, that is transformational in its impact and progressive in its effects. Keywords: author; inglehart; modernization; societies; theory

• A Theology of History: In Search of a Method by Lavrentiev, Andrey V. (2022) - “What is Theology of History Today?” emphasizes the role of the Church as “the connecting link between all historical processes” and defines the theology of history itself as a kind of self-reflection of the Church. Chapter 2 of the publication (“Typology of History”) is central in terms of content since it is here that the methodological principle of the theology of history is proposed. Keywords: author; church; history; theology

• Markers of Sensory Well-Being in the Learning Environment for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders by Tokarskaya, Lyudmila V.; Bystrova, Tatyana Yu. (2023) - The proposed approach can be relevant not only for learning environments for children with ASD but also for normatively developing children as well as for constructing sensory safe environments for more general purposes. The concept of sensory well-being and its markers may provide some valuable insights into what constitutes sensory friendly learning environment and ways to adjust a learning environment to the specific needs of students and groups of students. Keywords: approach; asd; autism; bystrova; characteristics; children; classroom; design; elements; environment; individual; learning; learning environment; markers; materials; needs; objects; people; sensory
• Factors Shaping the Reproductive Behavior of Young Families in Russia: Data Triangulation by Rostovskaya, Tamara K.; Vasilieva, Ekaterina N.; Kholina, Veronika N. (2023) - KEYWORDS young family, demographics, reproductive behavior, marital behavior, average number of children born, social support for young families, thriving young families https://changing-sp.com/ 74 Tamara K. Rostovskaya, Ekaterina N. Vasilieva, Veronika N. Kholina Our understanding of young families is determined by the official documents of the Russian Federation, in particular Federal Law No. 489-FZ O molodezhnoi politike v Based on the data of the mass survey, we found that there are differences in the values of young families with children and without children. Keywords: behavior; children; families; family; marriage; region; support
• The Fertility in Child Marriage Families: In-Depth Investigation in Indonesia by Al'Ghani, Muhammad Zulfi; Budijanto, Budijanto; Sumarmi, Sumarmi; Susilo, Singgih (2024) - KEYWORDS children, child marriage, child marriage families, fertility, Indonesia, phenomenology © 2024 Muhammad Zulfi Al’Ghani, Budijanto, Sumarmi, Singgih Susilo muhammad.zulfi.2007219@students.um.ac.id, budijanto.fis@um.ac.id, sumarmi.fis@um.ac.id, singgih.susilo.fis@um.ac.id https://changing-sp.com/ mailto:muhammad.zulfi.2007219@students.um.ac.id mailto:budijanto.fis@um.ac.id mailto:sumarmi.fis@um.ac.id mailto:singgih.susilo.fis@um.ac.id 466 Muhammad Zulfi Al’Ghani, Budijanto, Sumarmi, Singgih Susilo Introduction and Background It is important to examine the various meanings that child marriage families attribute to fertility, as it occurs due to child marriage (Ojala et al., 2017). Keywords: bawean; burden; child marriage; children; families; family; fertility; health; indonesia; investment; island; marriage; participant; population; poverty; research; s. s.; trans
• Donor Programs in Human Reproduction: Reviewing the Debate on Anonymity and Openness by Polyakova, Irina G.; Valeeva, Marina V.; Lebedeva, Anastasia A.; Khramtsova, Alexandra Yu. (2025) - Khramtsova Ural Research Institute of Maternity and Child Care, Yekaterinburg, Russia ABSTRACT This study is a comprehensive review of English-language academic literature on donor anonymity in assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures. The review highlights how technological developments, particularly the increasing accessibility of genetic testing, are reshaping social and legal attitudes toward donor anonymity. Keywords: anonymity; anonymous; child; children; donation; donor; information; openness; recipients; sperm

• Editor’s Note by Stepanova, Elena A. (2019) - Strenski emphasizes that in the West it has become commonplace to identify religious freedom with the right to believe whatever one chooses; however, the two concepts under consideration in the article are quite different from each other. The true measure of the depth of this difference can be assessed by the frequency, with which the rights of individual religious freedom conflict with the rights of corporate religious institutions. Keywords: freedom; model; power

• Power of Memory (In Commemoration of Elie Wiesel, 1928–2016) by Potap, Olga (2019) - Wiesel, Elie (1928–2016), commemoration, biography, teaching method, “a Socratic Method”, Holocaust education, appeal to humanity, memory Introduction This essay is dedicated to Elie Wiesel’s ninety-year-old birthday anniversary, and since this publication coincides with the third anniversary of his death, the essay aims to commemorate him. “Socratic Method” of Teaching A former student of Elie Wiesel, Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz called Wiesel’s approach of teaching “a Socratic Method”. Keywords: boston; elie; friendship; literature; memory; professor; students; teaching; university; wiesel

• Hotel Employees’ Attitude and Acceptance Toward Human-Robot Co-Working Based on the Industry 5.0 Concept by Ghazy, Khaled; Fedorova, Alena E. (2022) - The effects of perceived identity threat and realistic threat on the negative attitudes and usage intentions toward hotel service robots: The moderating effect of the robot’s anthropomorphism. Service robots designed to operate in the service sectors have emerged in hotels, catering, and entertainment enterprises to assist customers and provide information on different services. Keywords: attitude; employees; et al; hospitality; hotel; human; industry; intelligence; international; journal; robotics; robots; service; service robots; technology; tourism
• Dreams in the Bible and in Modern English Discourse: A Shift in Perspective by Smirnova, Alexandra Yu.; Tolochin, Igor V. (2022) - In modern religious discourse, the growing number of dream narratives manifest the positive evaluation of the contact with the divine as comforting. KEYWORDS dream narratives, the Bible, religious discourse, secularisation, lexicography Received 15 May 2022 © Alexandra Yu. Keywords: bible; divine; dream; english; experience; god; human; narratives; secularisation; sense; smirnova; supernatural; texts; tolochin; word
• Re-reading the Tales of Colonisation: An Ecological Perspective by Gopinath, Swapna (2023) - The author of this work on human society and its intricate relationship with nature, Amitav Ghosh hails from India, and writes both fiction and non-fiction. Furthering his arguments on human centrality and ecological interventions, Ghosh uses the concept of “terra-forming” (p. 53) to explain “biopolitical conflicts” through five centuries from the spice wars to the latest social movements involving climate activist Greta Thunberg (p. 55). Keywords: ghosh; human; nutmeg
• Beyond the “Death of Research”: Reimagining the Human-AI Collaboration in Scientific Research by Salah, Mohammed; Abdelfattah, Fadi; Al Halbusi, Hussam; Mohammed, Muna (2023) - Transparency and accountability in AI research are vital for maintaining public trust and facilitating ethical evaluations, with AI models designed for understandability and accountability measures in place (Bang et al., 2021). AI, devoid of subjective experiences, may offer objective analyses but lacks the depth and diversity of human research (Cath et al., 2018). Keywords: data; future; human; intelligence; mohammed; potential; research; researchers; salah; understanding

• Germaine R. Halegoua (2019). The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place. New York: New York University Press. by Trubina, Elena G. (2020) - 248–251 251 of the conclusions she comes to in this chapter is that “a shift in perspective and the incorporation of digital media as creative rather than commercial could help recognize experiences of place attachment and place identity that are emerging alongside digital media use in everyday life” (p. 213). The book ends with generous suggestions for future research, and I am confident that it will acts as a stimulus to further research into digital cities. Keywords: city; digital; place; placemaking
• The Transformation of Tobacco Factories and Depots in İstanbul Waterfront by Özdamar, Esen Gökçe (2022) - Tobacco factories and tobacco warehouses were established in coastal areas and nearby places throughout the city from the 1880s and increased after the 1800s with the development of industrialization. Since the 19th century, tobacco factories and warehouses have been built in districts of İstanbul such as Cibali, Üsküdar, and Kabataş, and sometimes they have been temporarily in existing historical buildings. Keywords: administration; building; century; cibali; city; depot; factories; factory; figure; industrial; i̇stanbul; museum; n.d; note; ottoman; source; tobacco; tobacco factory; tobacco warehouse; tütün; vol; warehouse; üsküdar
• Fluid Entanglements: Narratives of Waterfronts in the City by Trubina, Elena G. (2022) - Urban waterfronts: Contemporary streams of planning conflicts. Polina Golovatina-Mora examines the nexus of the materiality of urban water in the context of the aftermath of Medellin’s acclaimed program, “social urbanism”. Keywords: cities; citizens; city; context; industrial; issue; narratives; new; parts; projects; river; waterfronts

• Jonathan Floyd (2019). What’s the Point of Political Philosophy? Medford, MA: Polity Press by Kokin, Daniil I. (2020) - Medford, MA: Polity Press Daniil I. Kokin Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia During a conversation with scholars concerned with political philosophy, it is highly likely to hear that only political philosophers themselves are fond of reflecting upon their subject. Numerous introductory books on political philosophy usually introduce the subject to a reader exactly this way. Keywords: book; floyd; philosophy
• German Yu. Kapten (2020). Problema sakralizatsii voiny v vizantiiskom bogoslovii i istoriografii [Problem of Sacralization of War in Byzantine Theology and Historiography]. St. Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo Russkoi khristianskoi gumanitarnoi akademii. by Nazarov, Andrey D. (2021) - There is still no scholarly consensus about the role that religion played in Byzantine wars (see, for example, Stephenson, 2018; Stouraitis, 2018). Byzantine war ideology between Roman imperial concept and Christian religion (Proceedings of the International Symposium, Wien, 19–21 May 2011). Keywords: book; byzantine; empire; kapten; sacralization; war
• Kelly, Mark G. E. (2018). For Foucault: Against Normative Political Theory. Albany: SUNY Press by Kokin, Daniil I. (2019) - In the very beginning, Kelly tells his readers that the book “is for and not about Foucault” and “against and not about normative political theory” (Kelly, 2018, p. 1). Kelly interprets Foucault’s alternative to normative political theory as threefold, for normative, “political, and theoretic aspects are closely interconnected” (Kelly, 2018, p. 11). Keywords: book; foucault; kelly
• The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis: Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial. (2014). Eds. Lynn Chancer, John Andrews by Trubina, Elena (2017) - The authors of eighteen essays have compiled cases drawn from an impressive variety of social situations in an attempt to demonstrate the misfortune that, within American sociology from the 1940s through the present, the psychosocial and, in particular, psychoanalytic perspectives became relatively marginalized. Fortunately, twenty first century researchers have produced a book, in which they reflect on the failure of two disciplines to engage in a productive dialogue and express, in particular, concerns about the development of mainstream American sociology towards becoming a science that fails to see individual people and is reluctant to admit to what extent social behavior is connected to unconscious desires and irrational motives. Keywords: book; disciplines; psychoanalysis; sociology
• Michael Ignatieff (2017). The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World. Harvard University Press by Stepanova, Elena A. (2019) - The fourth chapter is about today’s Bosnia – the place of afterwar important exercise in “moral globalization where outsiders, trained in the moral disciplines of universalism and the techniques of reconciliation and forgiveness, trying to persuade battered insiders to adopt their moral codes” (р. 93). While philosophers might think in terms of “the human race, some abstract standard, beyond the veil of ignorance” (р. 208), ordinary people think through moral situations in terms of concrete human relations with their family and friends. Keywords: book; chapter; ignatieff; people; virtues

• Changing the Paradigm of Inclusion: How Blind People Could Help People without Disabilities to Acquire New Competences by Barannikov, Konstantin V.; Ismagilova, Fayruza S.; Li, Zijun; Kolpashchikov, Oleg B. (2021) - KEYWORDS blind person’s competence, paradigm of disability inclusion, mentoring and mentorship, cultural intelligence, intercultural interaction ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work was supported by Abroad PhD Studying Scholarship, The China Scholarship Council, and a supplementary grant from the Ural Federal University. Managers without related experience feel hard to recognize specific potentials of PWDs and establish the compelling strategies for disability inclusion in workplaces (Baldridge et al., 2015; Bonaccio et al., 2020). Keywords: blind; blindness; cultural; disabilities; disability; inclusion; individuals; journal; managers; paradigm; people; pwds
• In the Eyes of the Beholder: Leaders’ Personality and Courageous Followership by Ghias, Wajeeha Brar; Kazmi, Syed Zaheer Abbas (2022) - Data analysis indicates that leaders having extraversion, agreeableness, consciousness, and openness to intellectual/imagination personality traits perceive their subordinates’ behaviors as courageous followers, whereas the neuroticism personality trait resulted in a negative perception of courageous followership behaviors among Pakistani school leaders. We need to inculcate and promote courageous followership behavior among institutions to get rid of toxic triangles and overcome inefficiencies to compete with world countries. Keywords: agreeableness; behavior; et al; followership; individuals; leaders; leadership; neuroticism; pakistan; personality; research; study; subordinates; traits
• Unveiling Compensatory Mechanisms of Muslim Minority Groups in Hungary by Syahrivar, Jhanghiz; Gyulavári, Tamás; Chairy, Chairy (2025) - Furthermore, Syahrivar et al. (2022) identified factors such as religious discrepancy, religious guilt, and religious social control as key influences on religious compensatory consumption among Muslims in Indonesia. Religious compensatory behaviors are driven by the idea that religious products function as supernatural compensators, providing existential coherence, meaning, and emotional well-being (Ellison, 1995). Keywords: behaviors; chairy; compensatory; consumption; et al; foods; halal; hungary; individuals; islamic; journal; minorities; minority; muslim; participant; products; study; syahrivar

• Moral Foundations of Dietary Behavior and Its Linkage to Sustainability and Feminism by Hackert, Benedikt; Voeth, Lilith C.; Weger, Ulrich (2022) - Vegan diet: meat = meat eater; flexi = flexitarian; vegetarian = vegetarian; vegan = vegan. Keywords: animal; attitudes; authority; behavior; consumption; correlations; diet; eaters; eating; fairness; foundations; groups; harm; m =; meat; meat eaters; p =; rp =; vegans; vegetarians
• Grouping of Occupations Based on Intragenerational Mobility by Korotaev, Sergey A.; Gasiukova, Elena N. (2023) - A possible empirical manifestation of such a scenario is the frequent change of occupation codes when re-surveying the same respondent with the same job, because two codes, which are different from the point of view of classification, equally correspond to a “real” occupation. In their original form, occupation codes can hardly be used in analysis because of their large number. Keywords: 2m− ki; aij; groups; j aij; ki δ(ci; kjki; network; occupations; p(r; δ(ci
• Which Employees are Most Motivated to Share Knowledge – the Role of Age-Based Differentiation in Knowledge-Sharing Motivation by Prelog, Neža; Ismagilova, Fayruza S.; Boštjančič, Eva (2019) - Knowledge within an organisation and knowledge sharing are essential for successful cooperation among employees within an organisation and form an organisation’s competitive advantage (Floor, 2007; Jiacheng et al., 2010a). Our objective was to find out how three different age groups differ in the subjective perceptions of knowledge- sharing motivation and how the perception of intergenerational differentiation is correlated with knowledge sharing motivation. Keywords: age; differentiation; employees; groups; individual; knowledge; management; motivation; research; sharing
• Cyberfield: Theory, Methodology, and Practice by Belorussova, Svetlana Yu.; Maretina, Ksenya A.; Komova, Elizaveta A. (2025) - For this study, we prepared a questionnaire to gather feedback from representatives of minor Indigenous peoples on their participation in online research. In the third part, we analyze ethnic community members’ feedback on their participation in online research, share our principles for working in digital environments shaped by our experiences with minor Indigenous peoples of Russia, and assess the advantages and disadvantages of the cyberfield. Keywords: belorussova; digital; ethnography; groups; meaning; nagaybaks; online; research; users

• The Role of Managers’ Cultural Intelligence and Demographic Variables in Building Trust in Business Relations by Boštjančič, Eva; Ismagilova, Fayruza S.; Pavlović Milijašević, Sara (2022) - The lower level of trust among Russians may also be due to the fact that, according to Hofstede, it can be classified as a low-trust society (Bstieler & Hemmert, 2008), as in Russia trust is very important within already known channels, while in Slovenia and Croatia this is not the case. On Trust in Business Relationships Blomqvist and Ståhle (2000) emphasize that when it comes to analyzing trust in business relationships, two levels should be included: interpersonal and interorganizational. Keywords: business; gender; intelligence; participants; partners; relationships; research; study; trust
• Working in the “Neo-Liberal Hegemony”: An Investigation on Entrepreneurial Mindset of Internal Labor Market Based on Individual Differences by Wenjun, Zuo; Panikarova, Svetlana V.; Zhiyuan, Li; Qi, Zhao (2023) - KEYWORDS neo-liberal capitalism, entrepreneurial mindset, internal labor market, employability Introduction Contemporary economy relies on entrepreneurial adaptability to identify societal inefficiencies, facilitating efficient resource allocation for consumer needs (Schumpeter, 2021). Entrepreneurial mindset: An integrated definition, a review of current insights, and directions for future research. Keywords: age; china; economic; employees; entrepreneurship; et al; gender; income; individual; journal; labor; market; mindset; research; study
• Joan Wallach Scott (2018). Sex and Secularism. Princeton University Press by Menshikov, Andrey S. (2019) - However, the historical genealogy of secularism traced by Joan Wallach Scott reveals that “gender inequality was fundamental to the articulation of the separation of church and state that inaugurated Western modernity […] Euro-Atlantic modernity entailed a new order of women’s subordination, assigning them to a feminized familial sphere meant to complement the rational masculine realms of politics and economics” Indeterminacy of the denaturalized and secularized politics needed certainty that would be rooted in “immutability of gender” and “in human nature and biology rather than divine law” (p. 31), whereas gender inequality was interpreted through the optics of political interests (demographic reproduction and family morality), and social laws (complementarity of genders in the division of labor). Keywords: gender; secularism

• V. V. Lapin, A. I. Miller (Eds.) (2021). Simvolicheskie aspekty politiki pamiati v sovremennoi Rossii i vostochnoi Evrope [Symbolic aspects of the politics of memory in modern Russia and Eastern Europe]. EUSP Press by Rusakova, Olga F.; Gribovod, Ekaterina G.; Moiseenko, Yan Yu. (2022) - This dilemma is generally presented in terms of an enduring speculation on the hierarchy between politics of memory and symbolic politics; the issue of distinction between these two concepts has been repeatedly raised in previous publications (e.g., Malinova, 2015, 2018). In particular, a correlation scheme for such categories as historical politics, politics of memory, and symbolic politics was previously proposed by O. Iu. Keywords: discourse; malinova; memory; politics

• Digital Political Participation of Western and Eastern Parts of Germany Residents (based on Change.org Online Petitions) by Radina, Nadezhda K.; Belyashova, Daria S. (2021) - The recipients of online petitions (usually representatives of the authorities) both in the western and eastern parts of Germany act in approximately the same way: the dominant support for petition activity of the inhabitants of Germany relates to animal welfare. The purpose of this article is to conduct a comparative analysis of digital political participation of residents of the western and eastern parts of Germany in the form of online petitions to discuss the role of historical experience in shaping modern civil action strategies of the studied territories. Keywords: activity; animal; change.org; eastern; federal; germany; group; issues; lands; migration; online; parts; people; petitions; problems; protection; saxony; support; territories; western

• Deborah H. Gruenfeld (2020). Acting with Power. New York: Currency/Penguin Random House by Giray, Louie G. (2021) - In her latest book, Acting with Power (Gruenfeld, 2020), she shares insightful lessons, gathered from many years of research and teaching about power. While many writers on power discuss winning battles with others, Gruendfeld claims that Acting with Power is about “winning battles with ourselves”. Keywords: acting; gruenfeld; power
• Thomas F. Remington (2023). The Returns to Power. A Political Theory of Economic Inequality. Oxford University Press by Menshikov, Andrey S. (2023) - Delving into the explanations of what causes as well as what reproduces and reinforces inequality, Remington provides a thorough analysis of how deregulation gave an edge to early winners; how winners in the market tend to ally themselves with politicians and an alliance of market power and political power consolidates itself in securing the rents and rent-sharing. It is the reality that those with market power will always prefer to ally themselves when they can with those with political power to suppress competition in both the market and political arenas. Keywords: income; inequality; market; power; remington

• The Concept of the Dark Triad: Effect on Organizational Outcomes and Navigating Strategies by Upadhyay, Divya; Baber, Hasnan (2023) - Webster and Smith (2019) argue that Dark Triad behaviors can be minimized by providing awareness programs and trainings with assessments of behaviors, personality types, and work culture dynamics. In contrast, in a study examining how and why Dark Triad personality traits are related to entrepreneurial initiation and outcomes, narcissism was found to be positively related to entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurial outcomes, while psychopathy was positively related to entrepreneurial intentions and negatively related to entrepreneurial outcomes (Brownell et al., 2021). Keywords: behaviors; dark; employees; et al; narcissism; organization; outcomes; personality; psychopathy; traits; triad; workplace
• Effect of Conscientiousness and COVID-19-Induced Job Stress on Organizational Citizenship Behavior Among Healthcare Professionals by Majeed, Shayista; Mufti, Sabiya; Peerzadah, Sabzar Ahmad; Nazir, Nazir Ahmed (2024) - Hence, this study has extended its support to situation trait- relevance principle (Tett et al., 2021) and situation-strength effect (Judge & Zapata, 2015). High conscientiousness appeared to have had an exceptional adaptive value during the pandemic (Aschwanden et al., 2021). Keywords: behavior; citizenship; conscientiousness; covid-19; effect; et al; healthcare; job; journal; ocb; pandemic; personality; relationship; stress; study; trait

• Theatrical Dialogue in the Digital Age: From Director’s Theatre to the Theatre Onscreen by Nemchenko, Lilia M. (2020) - Thus, theatre audiences do not witness acting that mimics real-life role-relationships, but rather a real living human being performing a chain or a bundle of actions, which serves the same function for performance as tricks in the circus. During their heyday, radio plays attracted far larger audiences than traditional live theatre performances. Keywords: actors; art; audience; cinema; communication; dialogue; director; live; meyerhold; new; performance; radio; screen; stage; television; text; theatre
• Transformation of Museum Communication through Art Mediation: The Case of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art by Kochukhova, Elena S. (2019) - In all likelihood, participants have a strong impact on art mediation, but we should not forget that there are art mediators too, not only viewers. D. Malikova defines art mediation as a method of educational work, she also describes its place in the system of educational activities of art museums, highlights the key characteristics of this method by comparing them with traditional practices of museum education (Malikova, 2015). Keywords: art; art mediation; audience; biennial; communication; contemporary; experience; mediation; mediators; museum; ural; visitors; years

• Arseniy Kumankov (2020). Voina v dvadtsat' pervom veke [War in the 21st Century]. Moscow: Higher School of Economics Publishing House by Sultanov, Danis M. (2020) - 548–552 549 normative potential of just war theory – even in its more ‘elaborate’ form – to address the realities of new wars. In the chapters devoted to modern war (Chapter 2 and 4), a more critical approach to classical just war theory is adopted. Keywords: theory; war; warfare; wars
• Michael Goodhart (2018). Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World. Oxford University Press by Kokin, Daniil (2019) - In the final chapter (Taking Responsibility for Injustice), Goodhart describes various ideas to consider the problem of systemic injustice “like hunger, poverty, and sweatshops – injustices originating in complex social systems, structures, and processes” (р. 206) and responsibility for it. Following from that, the primary aim of the book, as Goodhart puts it, “is to do better with respect to injustice – to do better in making sense of it and in bringing theory to bear on it in ways that might help to advance the work of people struggling against injustices of all kinds” (р. 8). Keywords: goodhart; injustice; theory

• Confucianism as the Axiological Basis for China’s Management Model by Piskunova, Larisa; Lu, Jia Jin (2018) - It’s very interesting to note that, when there are two employees, both of who are not loyal, Chinese business leaders prefer the one with lower capability; however, if they are both loyal, Chinese leaders prefer employees who are more capable. The relevance of this study is also connected with the interest of Chinese people themselves in pragmatising the intellectual tradition in their search for axiological bases of rapid contemporary social and economic change. Keywords: business; china; chinese; confucianism; confucius; employees; leaders; legge; man; management; master; people; person; superior

• Fluid Intelligence Test Scores Across the Schooling: Evidence of Nonlinear Changes in Girls and Boys by Tikhomirova, Tatiana N.; Malykh, Artem S.; Malykh, Sergey B. (2022) - The Present Study This cross-sectional study aimed to examine changes in fluid intelligence test scores over all years of schooling from grades 1 to 11. In the second phase, the means and ranges of fluid intelligence test scores for the samples of girls and boys for each year of schooling were calculated. Keywords: age; boys; differences; fluid; girls; intelligence; schooling; scores; years

• Post-Protestantism: Contemporary Exclusions, Critical Theology and Reformation 500 in the Context of the Phenomenon of the “Emerging Church” by Denysenko, Anatoliy (2017) - While Luther, Calvin and other reformers were known for their openness to the new, advocated dialogue with the modern world, accepted the challenges of the cultural paradigm of their time, and even in some areas were ahead of the curve, post-Soviet Protestants tend to dwell in the past, living off the legacy of Christians who suffered for their faith during the times of the USSR. The origins of the term “emerging church” are derived from the so-called Emergent Village, a group of churches that began to coalesce in the 1990s due to a general sense of disillusionment and disappointment in the regular church institutions of the late 20th century. Keywords: church; post; protestantism; reformation; soloviy; theology
• Carlo Invernizzi Accetti (2015). Relativism and Religion: Why Democratic Societies Do Not Need Moral Absolutes by Menshikov, Andrey (2017) - Moreover, Invernizzi Acetti claims “that it is not only possible but necessary to be a relativist about one’s own relativism - which implies that positing such a form of relativism as the philosophical foundation for the legitimacy of democratic institutions amounts to a way of grounding their legitimacy not in a figure of the absolute, but in something that is inherently relative; that is, relativism itself” (p. 213). The claim that without absolute moral truth political society will degenerate into tyranny or totalitarianism does not actually give us an answer to the questions whether the absolute moral truth exists, whether it can be known, and whether it can be grasped uniformly and unanimously. Keywords: church; democracy; freedom; relativism

• The Importance of Green Practices to Reduce Consumption by Zakharova, Olga V.; Glazkova, Anna V.; Pupysheva, Irina N.; Kuznetsova, Natalia V. (2022) - Some researchers have studied the citizens’ involvement in functional public practices at the institutional level and the private sector (Ermolaeva & Rybakova, 2019), the factors and the conditions for Russians’ engagement in separate waste collection practices (Shabanova, 2019). [“Dirty village” and “littered city” (common waste management practices in different communities)]. Keywords: adaptive; collection; communities; consumption; green; growth; n.d; people; posts; practices; recyclables; tyumen; waste; waste collection

• Orwellian Doublespeak: Dialogicality and the English Language by Beavitt, Thomas (2021) - Prodding several of these metaphors to confirm that they are indeed dead, Leith channels Orwell to show that these constitute examples of “writing that isn’t paying attention to what it’s saying”, i.e., excluding the reader by undervaluing his or her attention. In order to validate or reject the ironic usage of the term “Orwellian” as applied in the context of contemporary English language scientific communication, the following research question arises: Are we currently living in an Orwellian dystopia? Keywords: beavitt; english; language; orwell; reader; writing

• Philosophical Pursuits in Dance Practice of the 21st Century: Body Concepts by Kozeva, Maria; Brandt, Galina (2018) - KEYWORDS body concept, dance body, freedom, unconscious, social criticism, illusion, deviant body The art of performance dance in the 20th century is undergoing a transformation to encompass values, concepts, and styles that contrast with the traditional principles of classical art dance. Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman – the American pioneers of modern dance – “blew up” traditions through their observations of the basic dance processes revealed in the body, in its physical reality and deep mental processes. Keywords: art; ballet; body; century; dance; form; idea; movement; new; performance; person

• Between Сrypto Art and Copyright: NFT Tokens as Tools for Confirming the Authenticity of Art Objects by Kartasheva, Anna A.; Trubina, Marya A. (2024) - Once easily accessible to all, digital art poses a unique challenge in the realm of collecting: how does one collect something that can be effortlessly replicated and shared? 508–525 509 Introduction The evolution of art has always entailed the exploration of new forms of artistic expression, and crypto art has become a pioneering direction in digital art, particularly in the realm of exclusive ownership of digital objects. Keywords: art; artists; blockchain; copyright; crypto; crypto art; digital; game; new; nfts; ownership; technology; tokens; trubina; value; works

• Jean-François Caron (2020). Contemporary Technologies and the Morality of Warfare: The War of the Machines. London: Routledge by Vedernikov, Georgy A. (2020) - The third chapter focuses on the ability of modern military technologies to discriminate between combatants and non-combatants (civilians) during military operations. The following three chapters cover the critique and arguments brought up by scholars and wider public against the use of modern military technologies. Keywords: author; caron; technologies; use; weapons
• Reactualisation of Triadology in Polemics with Postmetaphysics by Lavrentiev, Andrey V. (2021) - It is in in this polemical context that the monograph addresses the main issue of Christian theology—the relation of God to the creation. Christian theology turned into “all too human” historical and philological criticism, anthropological hermeneutics, and sentimental moralising (p. XV). Keywords: author; christian; davydov; god; theological; theology
• Duncan McDuie-Ra (2015). Debating Race in Contemporary India. Palgrave Macmillan by Malu, Bhasker; Rajan, Santhosh Kareepadath (2022) - The author then, contrasts the differences in the narratives around racism in metropolitan India and its ignorance in the militarised Northeastern region. One, racism is considered a phenomenon that needs to be fixed in metropolitan India and marginalises the borderland. Keywords: author; india; northeast; racism

• Representing the Powerful Principle of Virtue Ethics: Commitment at Workplaces by Tripathy, Mitashree (2022) - The current paper explores the importance of commitment as powerful principles of virtue ethics and also emphasizes the limitation of employee commitment mostly focusing on blind commitment. Employee commitment and motivation: A conceptual analysis and integrative model. Keywords: actions; aristotle; character; commitment; desires; employees; ethics; good; motivation; organization; press; studies; virtue; virtue ethics; workplace

• The American Anti-Vaxxer COVID Dead: A Dynamic Chronicle of Failed Sacrifices by Strenski, Ivan (2023) - I suggest that one way to weigh the quality of Red-COVID sacrifices is by measuring the quality of performance. Crucially, in what ways do Red-COVID sacrifices succeed and, in what ways, do they fail at being sacrifices, as far as Hubert and Mauss have laid it out? Keywords: andersen; anti; covid; covid deaths; dead; deaths; elites; gop; hubert; leonhardt; mauss; pandemic; patrick; process; red; sacrifice; texas; trump; vaccine; vaxxers; workers

• Editor’s Note by Stepanova, Elena A. (2019) - The article draws examples from different regions in the world, namely, the threats to Amazon rainforest, rhino poaching in RSA, on one hand, and improvement of air and water in Europe, on the other hand, and discuss ecological issues in the light of “de-industrialization” of so-called “advanced industrial societies”, which in practice was the industrial relocation from there to other regions all over the globe. Based on interviews with the employees of several Slovenian companies, the authors review different knowledge-sharing mechanisms and models and explain the reasons of choosing cognitive model as the foundation for the empirical part of the research, which is aimed at studying “the correlation between intergenerational differentiation and knowledge-sharing motivation, that is, the willingness of employees of different age groups to share their knowledge”. Keywords: knowledge; paper; sharing

• Heidegger in Russian Philosophical Thought: History of Reception and Current Interpretations by Lebed, Ekaterina S. (2022) - i uroki politicheskikh transformatsii XX veka [Philosophical attitude of M. Heidegger and lessons of political transformations of the 20th century], D. Goncharko focuses on a more poignant question—that of Heidegger’s political views. The author concludes that poetry becomes a secularized political discourse in later Heidegger (p. 205). Keywords: heidegger; philosophy; reception
• Jonathan Floyd (2017). Is Political Philosophy Impossible? Thoughts and Behaviour in Normative Political Theory. Cambridge University Press by Kokin, Daniil (2018) - Thus, Floyd claims that it is about (and of) political philosophy, particularly its deepest foundational principles. He comes to the ambiguous conclusion that political philosophy is impossible to do and impossible to avoid doing. Keywords: floyd; philosophy

• Exploring the Factors Influencing Tourist Destination Loyalty: A Case Study of Homestay Entrepreneurs in Thailand by Muangmee, Chaiyawit; Sawangcharoen, Kanakorn; Pongvatnanusorn, Veerapan; Chaitorn, Thun; Kassakorn, Nuttapon; Saqib, Shahab E. (2023) - Accepted 2 November 2023 Published online 27 December 2023 ARTICLE Exploring the Factors Influencing Tourist Destination Loyalty: A Case Study of Homestay Entrepreneurs in Thailand Chaiyawit Muangmee Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand Kanakorn Sawangcharoen Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand Veerapan Pongvatnanusorn Estate Expert co., Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand Thun Chaitorn Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Thailand Nuttapon Kassakorn Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand Shahab E. Saqib Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; Chulalongkorn University, Thailand ABSTRACT This research aims to explore the image of the homestay entrepreneurs through service marketing mix, tourist satisfaction, and tourist loyalty toward homestay entrepreneurs and find their tourist destination loyalty model. The results showed that the image of the homestays in Samut Sakhon province, service marketing mix, tourist satisfaction, and tourist loyalty toward homestay entrepreneurs in Samut Sakhon province were mostly at © 2023 Chaiyawit Muangmee, Kanakorn Sawangcharoen, Veerapan Pongvatnanusorn, Thun Chaitorn, Nuttapon Kassakorn, Shahab E. Saqib Chaiyawit.m@bsru.ac.th, uttweb@hotmail.com, veerapanpong@gmail.com, thun.ch@ssru.ac.th, nuttapon.k@bsru.ac.th, shahabmomand@gmail.com https://changing-sp.com/ mailto:Chaiyawit.m@bsru.ac.th mailto:uttweb@hotmail.com mailto:veerapanpong@gmail.com mailto:thun.ch@ssru.ac.th mailto:nuttapon.k@bsru.ac.th mailto:shahabmomand@gmail.com Changing Societies & Personalities, 2023, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. Keywords: entrepreneurs; homestay; image; loyalty; marketing; mix; province; sakhon; samut; satisfaction; service; thailand; tourist; tourist loyalty; tourist satisfaction; variables

• Preventing Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Barbarism in the Present and in the Future through Art: Using the Example of the Play “The Investigation. Oratorio in 11 Songs” by Peter Weiss by Keune, Oliver (2021) - Der Dramatiker Peter Weiss Oratorio in 11 Songs” by Peter Weiss Oliver Keune Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia ABSTRACT 75 years have passed since the liberation of Auschwitz, but racism, nationalism and xenophobia (including anti-Semitism) are still widespread; in fact, due to an increasingly solipsistic policy of international leaders, hostility against those who don’t match race, religion, culture or sexual orientation is even experiencing a renaissance. Keywords: auschwitz; camp; die; frankfurt; german; hell; holocaust; investigation; new; peter; play; right; theatre; translation; verlag; weiss

• Analyzing an Emerging Genre: H-Pop and Contemporary India by Gopinath, Swapna (2024) - He https://changing-sp.com/ mailto:swapna.gopinath@fulbrightmail.org 544 Swapna Gopinath traveled with these H-Pop artists, Hindu artists who managed to grow widely popular. Political Hinduism is widely considered and defined as Hindutva ideology, emphasizing on the Hindu pride for a nation identified as the Hindu nation. Keywords: hindu; hindutva; india; pop

• Ivan Strenski (2022). Muslims, Islams and Occidental Anxieties: Conversations about Islamophobia. Ethics International Press Ltd. by Stepanova, Elena A. (2022) - In turn, Yannick calls into question such essentializing generalizations, due to their tendency to eliminate the complexity and diversity of Islam communities, to make simplifying generalizations about complex things, and to pretend to know the fundamental nature of Muslims. The main point of the conversation in first chapters is essentialism—namely, an essential set of Muslim fundamental beliefs and practices that have always been found in Islam and among Muslims. Keywords: islam; muslim; yannick

• Hate, Politics, Law: Critical Perspectives on Combating Hate (2018). Thomas Brudholm & Birgitte Schepelern Johansen, eds. Oxford University Press by Menshikov, Andrey S. (2019) - In the US, in the aftermath of the civil rights movement, it was hate crimes that draw the attention of the public and legislature rather than hate speech. If the public agenda will continue to revolve around hate and measures against it rather than “structural embedding” of hate speech and hate crimes, we are probably fighting a losing battle. Keywords: hate; love; violence

• Review of International Research on Ethical and Psychological Barriers to Reproductive Donation by Symaniuk, Elvira E.; Polyakova, Irina G.; Kvashnina, Elena V. (2020) - In another work of de Lacey (2007, p. 1757), it is shown that provisional donors and discarders differ in terms of their interpretation of embryos, that is, embryo donors relate more to the “metaphor of pregnancy termination” while those who discard embryos emphasize the adoption metaphor. As for the practical implications of the contemporary studies described above, they demonstrate the need for clear guidelines for reproductive donors. Keywords: barriers; decision; doi; donation; donors; egg; embryos; reproduction; research; sperm; surrogacy

• Bennett E., Berndt G. M., Esders St., Sarti L. (Eds.) (2021). Early Medieval Militarisation. Manchester University Press. by Nazarov, Andrey D. (2022) - Therefore, it is difficult to agree with Guy Halsall, who wrote in the final essay that early medieval militarisation was not so much a process as a discourse (pp. 340–341). While no author disputes the militarisation of early medieval societies, the collection gives no answer to the question of its extent or scope. Keywords: militarisation; military; roman; volume

• Renata Summa (2021). Everyday Boundaries, Borders and Post Conflict Societies. Palgrave Macmillan by Slepchenko, Denis V. (2023) - Cultural boundaries, often imperceptible in everyday life, become readily apparent in the course of conflict development. Following the conflict, the division in terms of political borders vanished but persisted in terms of social boundaries. Keywords: boundaries; conflict; everyday

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