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Christopher S. Swader

• Faculty of Sociology: доцент
• Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (HSE Branch in Saint-Petersburg): Senior Research Fellow

Education and degrees

Thematic Interests

• Individualization and Intimacy
• Values
• Social-Psychology
• The Life Course
• Sociology of Family
• Sociology of Sexuality
• Economic Sociology
• Social Change and Modernization

Teaching

Current:

2011-12, 2010-11, 2nd Module, MA level: "Individualization and Intimacy."

2011-12, 2010-11, 3rd Module, BA level: "Social Change and the Life Course."

Previous: 

Summer 2008, 2009, 2010.  B.A. seminar: "Historical Sociology." University of Bremen.

Winter 2009: ‘Didactics Workshop’ for Ph.D.’s (with M. Schreier). BIGSSS.

Winter 2008-9, 2009-10.  B.A. seminar: "Exploring Critical Theory." University of Bremen.

Winter semester.  B.A. seminar in social theory: "Modernization Theory: Focus on Individualization." University of Bremen.

На русском языке

на русском языке

Scientific Presentations

2011. "The Commodification of Intimacy? The Case of Compensated Dating in Russia." Paper presented at conference of the European Sociological Association, Geneva, September, 2011.

2011. "Contemporary Doctoral Education Reform: Russia, Germany, and the Ango-American Model," invited presentation at the Summer School of the Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, 10 July 2011.

2011. “Contemporary Education Reform in the Context of the German-Influenced Russian Higher Educational System,” invited presentation at the Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology (EMPAS), University of Bremen, 27 January, 2011.

2010. “The Ideology of Reform, Ambivalency, and Everyday life in Post-Socialist Germany and Russia,” invited presentation at “Analyzing Social and Economic Inequalities in the Context of 20 Years of National Economic System Transformation” Conference in Ekaterinburg, Russia (Russian Academy of Sciences). 15 to 19 November, 2010.

2010. “Explaining Normlessness and Value Change in the Post-Communist World.” Paper presented at 2010 annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) in Philadelphia, Temple University, 24 June to 26 June, 2010.

2009. “Adaptation as ‘Selling out’? Capitalism and the Commodification of Values in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Germany.” Presented at 2009 annual meeting of SASE in Paris, Sciences Po,  16 July to 18 July, 2009.

2009. “Valuations of interpersonal relationships in post-socialist Russia and Eastern Germany.” Invited presentation, Landmark 1989: Central and Eastern European societies 20 Years after the System Change, GESIS, Berlin, 2 to 4 April, 2009.

2008. “On the Genesis of Intimate, Incidental, and Sociopathic Evil.” Paper, "Persons, Intimacy and Love" conference. Salzburg, Austria. March, 2008.

2007. "A Tale of Three Cities: Post-communist Family Values from an Intergenerational Perspective."  Paper presented at 102^nd American Sociological Association annual meeting in New York.   11 to 14 August, 2007.

2007. “Changing Social Values in China.”  Invited presentation for group of China-focused graduate students at the University of Minnesota.  11 May 2007.

2007. "Transformation to a Market Economy and Changing Social Values in China, Russia, and Eastern Germany."  Invited presentation.  Life Course Center, University of Minnesota.  25 April 2007.

2007. "Can Cognitive Dissonance Explain Post-Communist Value Change?"  Paper presented at 17^th annual conference of the Sociology Research Institute (SRI), University of Minnesota, 21 April 2007.

2007. "Intimate Social Values and Economic Transformation: An Interpretation of Qualitative Interviews from Russia, China, and Eastern Germany."  Paper presented at "1^st Global Conference - Persons, Intimacy and Love: Probing the Boundaries." Salzburg, Austria. 20 to 22 March, 2007.

2006. "The Transformation to a Market Economy and Changing Social Values in Russia, China, and Eastern Germany."  Invited presentation, Center for Empirical and Applied Sociology, University of Bremen.  29 November, 2006.

2006. "On Family, Work, Money, and Morals: An Exploration of Intergenerational Value Differences in China."  Paper presented at 101^st annual meeting of the ASA, Montreal, August 11^thto 14^th, 2006.

2006. "Money versus Mensch: Why Do Value Conflicts Emerge Within Individuals?" Paper presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in Trier, Germany,  30 June to 2 July, 2006.

2006. "Modernization and the Individualization of Values," presentation delivered for student club in connection with 2^nd Joint Workshop on "Changing Values, Changing Welfare States: on the European Dimension of German and Turkish Social Policy" held at Bosphorus University in Istanbul from 24 to 26 May, 2006.

2006. “The Individualization and Desocialization of Values in the Post-Communist World.” Invited presentation for Moscow's Higher School of Economics sociology department, April 25^th, 2006.

2005. "Social Values and the Transformation to Free-Market Capitalism." Paper presented within the 1^st Joint Workshop on "Changing Values, Changing Welfare States: on the European Dimension of German and Turkish Social Policy" at Bremen University from 26 through 28 October, 2005.

2005. “On Value Change and Capitalism,” two invited lectures for sociology M.A. students of Shanghai University, September 2005.

2005. “Theorizing Social Value Shifts and Normlessness in Post-Communist Countries from Structural Economic Change,” Paper presented at 100^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Philadelphia from August 13^th to 16^th, 2005.

2005. "Theorizing Social Value Shifts and Normlessness in Post-Communist Countries from Structural Economic Change."  Paper presented at the 2005 conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in Budapest, 30^th June through 2^nd July 2005.

2005. “Free-Market Transformation and Changing Social Values in China, Russia, and Eastern Germany.”  Poster presented at the “Social Justice” conference of the Graduate School of Social Sciences at the University of Bremen in March 2005.

Graduate-Level Academic Supervision

Dissertation Advisory Committee, BIGSSS, Hilal Galip (2011, Determinants of Subjective Well-being in Transition Countries).

MA Advisor, HSE Faculty of Sociology, Ekaterina Kuldina (2012, APC Analysis of Post-materialist Values Among Russian Youth).

Research Projects

2011-2012. «The Commodification of Intimacy within Post-Soviet Space: The Case of Compensated Dating in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus», collective “Teacher-Student” research project, grant awarded by the Scientific Fund of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics.

2011-2012. (with Leon Kosals). "Informal Relationships and Modernization in Transformation Countries and Beyond," Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (Scientific Advisor: Ronald Inglehart), Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg.

Publications

2012 (forthcoming). CS Swader. The Capitalist Personality. New York: Routledge.

2011. CS Swader. “Linking Normlessness and Value Change in the Post-Communist World.” Studia Sociologia,56 (1): 63-94. http://studia.ubbcluj.ro/arhiva/abstract_en.php?editie=SOCIOLOGIA&nr=1&an=2011&id_art=8853

2011 (In Russian). CS Swader, EA Bounich, OV Strelkova, A. E. Sutormina. "Commodification of Intimate Relationships in Postsoviet Space: Compensated Dating in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus" („ Коммодификация интимных отношений на постсоветском пространстве: «свидания за вознаграждение» в России, Украине и Белоруссии.“). Ekonomicheskaya Sociologia, 12 (2). March 2011: 149-154.

2010. CS Swader and H Yuan. "On Family, Work, Money, and Morals: Intergenerational Value Differences in China." Chinese Journal of Sociology, 30 (4): 118-142.

2010. CS Swader. "Homo Sovieticus in Interpersonal Relationships Before and After the Collapse of Communism" in H. Best and A. Wenninger (Eds.) Landmark 1989: Central and Eastern European Societies Twenty Years After the System Change. Münster: LIT Verlag. 62-79.

2009. CS Swader. “Adaptation as ‘Selling out’? Capitalism and the Commodification of Values in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Germany.” Journal of International Relations and Development, 12, 387-395.

2009. CS Swader. "Inequality, Markets, and the Life Course" in WR Heinz, J Huinink, and A Weymann (eds.), The Life Course Reader. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.

2009. WR Heinz, J Huinink, A Weymann, and CS Swader. "General Introduction" in WR Heinz, J Huinink, and A Weymann (eds.), The Life Course Reader. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.

2009. WR Heinz, J Huinink, and A Weymann (eds.), in cooperation with CS Swader, The Life Course Reader. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.

2009. CS Swader. “Intimate Social Values and Economic Transformation: An Interpretation of Qualitative Interviews from Russia, China, and Eastern Germany” in A Cervantes-Carson and B Oria (eds.), Intimate Explorations: Readings Across Disciplines.  Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press.

2008. CS Swader. "Transformation to a Market Economy and Changing Social Values in China, Russia, and Eastern Germany”. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Bremen, 2008. Retrieved from http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-diss000111872

2007. CS Swader.  “The Lost Years: Assessing Family Change in St. Petersburg, Russia, between 1983 and 2003.”  Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 38(2): 317-36.