Research Seminar "Craft of Comparisons"

2022/2023

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент социологии

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 1-4 модуль

Преподаватели

Зубалов Денис Юрьевич

Краснопольская Ирина Игоревна

Митрофанова Екатерина Сергеевна

Настина Екатерина Александровна

Романов Даниил Михайлович

Соболева Наталья Эдуардовна

Фабрикант Маргарита Сауловна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The idea of the research seminar "Craft of Comparisons" is to present the students the rich spectrum of comparative studies: from sociology and demography to economics, cultural studies and even linguistics. Students will get familiar with not only most important theoretical concepts but also learn the cutting-edge methodological approaches. The lecturers of the seminar are accomplished scientists with a solid research and teaching backgrounds. They will bring their own experience and examples to make the seminars richer and more practical.

Learning Objectives

• To be able to understand the difference between comparative research strategies in different scientific disciplines
• To be able to detect similar approaches of different disciplines in order to organise, conduct and analyse comparative research
• To be able to choose a correct theoretical and methodological approach for a planned research
• To be able to interpret the results and formulate the pivotal research findings

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Able to understand the difference between comparative research strategies in different scientific disciplines
• Able to detect similar approaches of different disciplines in order to organise, conduct and analyse comparative research
• Able to choose a correct theoretical and methodological approach for a planned research
• Able to interpret the results and formulate the pivotal research findings

Course Contents

• Gender inequality and diversity
• Values and labour market
• Interethnical marriages, ethnicity and language policy
• Comparisons of key sociodemographic characteristics
• Nationalities and values
• Cross-Regional Studies: Exploring Russia
• The influence of economic and demographic factors on reproductive behaviour
• Mixed methods strategy for comparisons

Assessment Elements

• Tests
  Short test assessing the knowledge and competences which students acquired after the seminars
• Short tasks
  Some teachers of the seminar prepared small tasks in order to make the forming of competences more effective

Interim Assessment

• 2022/2023 2nd module
  0.5 * Short tasks + 0.5 * Tests
• 2022/2023 4th module
  0.5 * Tests + 0.5 * Short tasks

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Advances in mixed methods research : theories and applications, , 2008
• Ages, generations and the social contract : the demographic challenges facing the welfare state, , 2007
• Alsos, G. A., Hytti, U., & Ljunggren, E. (2016). Research Handbook on Gender and Innovation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1359169
• Cross-linguistic influences in multilingual language acquisition, , 2012
• Education and the family : passing success across the generations, Feinstein, L., 2008
• Five Generations of Russian Constitutions: Russia as Part of the Western Legal Heritage. (2019). https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300113136.001.0001
• Gender in cross-cultural perspective, , 2005
• Integrating analyses in mixed methods research, Bazeley, P., 2018
• Introduction to behavioral economics : noneconomic factors that shape economic decisions, Just, D. R., 2014
• Pierre Bréchon, & Frédéric Gonthier. (2017). European Values : Trends and Divides Over Thirty Years. Brill.
• Tatiana Kossova, Elena Kossova, & Maria Sheluntcova. (2014). Estimating the Relationship Between Rate of Time Preferences And Socio-Economic Factors In Russia. European Research Studies Journal, (1), 39. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.ers.journl.vxviiy2014i1p39.68
• Базовые ценности-2008: сходства и различия между россиянами и другими европейцами : препринт, Магун В.С., Руднев М.Г., 2010
• Динамика трудовых ценностей экономически активного населения России, 1991-2004гг. Препринт WP3/20..., Магун, В. С., 2006
• Индивидуальные и страновые факторы гордости своей страной : автореф. дис. ... канд. социологических наук : 22.00.04, Фабрикант, М. С., 2017
• Ценностные установки представителей бизнес-сообщества и его модернизационный потенциал в современ... : дис. ... канд. социологических наук : 22.00.03, Соболева, Н. Э., 2013

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Arrighi, B. A., Pollitt, K., Nonn, T., Rogers, M. F., Reay, D., Mill, J. S., … Estrich, S. (2007). Understanding Inequality : The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender (Vol. 2nd ed). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=632280
• Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Globalization and Superdiversity: Toward Sociolinguistic Repertoires. (2017). Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsnar&AN=edsnar.oai.tilburguniversity.edu.publications.a953a209.d7e4.4b1f.8791.3cf581c09aa1
• Class and gender in Russian welfare policies : soviet legacies and contemporary challenges, Iarskaia - Smirnova, E., 2011
• Degrees of inequality : culture, class, and gender in American higher education, Mullen, A. L., 2012
• Kraus, P. A., & Grin, F. (2018). The Politics of Multilingualism : Europeanisation, Globalisation and Linguistic Governance. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1868797
• Social stratification : class, race, and gender in sociological perspective, , 2001
• Three generations, two genders, one world : women and men in a changing century, , 1998

Authors

• SOBOLEVA NATALYA EDUARDOVNA
• NASTINA EKATERINA ALEKSANDROVNA
• MITROFANOVA EKATERINA SERGEEVNA