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Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization, Second Day, April 25, 2011

The Laboratory for Comparative Social Studies hosted the international workshop «Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization» in Saint Petersburg on April 24-27 2011.

Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization, First Day, April 24, 2011

The Laboratory for Comparative Social Studies hosted the international workshop «Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization» in Saint Petersburg on April 24-27 2011.

Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization

The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research hosted the international workshop «Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization» in Saint Petersburg on April 24-27 2011.

The LCSS regular workshop

The regular working seminar of LCSS took place on April 21, 2011. It covered the discussion of economic experiments on the provision of public goods.

International Workshop "The Transition to Innovation-based Growth".

To Combine Experiment With Intervention And Field Studies

Peter Schmidt, Professor of sociology at the University of Giessen and a renowned expert in social psychology, who has become one of the heads of the HSE International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Studies, told us about the plans and key research topics of the laboratory.

International workshop "The transition to innovation-based growth"

April 8, 2011 the HSE Panel of experts № 5 and Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge have organized an international workshop entitled "The transition to innovation-based growth"

‘I Decided To Get Closer To Where Things Actually Happen’

Interview with Jean Guinet, participant of the XII International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, who will head the new Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies which was created last year at the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.

'Russia Has A Very Good Analytical Capability'

Interview with Ian Miles, participant of the XII International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Professor at the University of Manchester and Academic Supervisor of the Research Laboratory for Economics of Innovation which was created last year as part of the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.

The third regular seminar: "St. Petersburg and Shanghai at the reform period"

On April 14, 2011 at the third regular seminar of LCSS, Mikhail Chernysh, PhD, the Head of the Sector of Social Mobility at the Institute of Sociology of the RAS, reported about the most interesting results of the Russian-Chinese comparative study: “St. Petersburg and Shanghai at the reform period”, carried out in 2009.