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International Workshop “The Varieties of Power in the Economy,” Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, NRU HSE, Moscow, Russia, July 2–3, 2020

International Workshop “The Varieties of Power in the Economy,” Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, NRU HSE, Moscow, Russia, July 2–3, 2020

Влияние нестандартных трудовых графиков на баланс между работой и жизнью (по данным Европейского социального исследования в России)

Широкое распространение нестандартных трудовых графиков (работа в вечернее и ночное время, а также в выходные дни) в контексте развития «экономики 24/7» актуализирует вопрос об оценке их влияния на качество жизни работников, в том числе на баланс между работой и другими сторонами жизни. Занятость в нестандартное время плохо вписывается в сложившиеся ритмы семейной и общественной активности, нарушая привычные паттерны социальной включенности. Это исследованиепредставляет собой оценку масштабов и последствий нестандартных трудовых графиков в России, опираясь на данные пятого раунда «Европейского социального исследования». Около двух третей российских работников регулярно трудятся вечером, ночью и/или в выходные дни, что является одним из самых высоких показателей среди европейских стран. Результаты регрессионного анализа говорят о том, что нестандартные трудовые графики негативно сказываются на восприятии людьмибаланса между работой и другими сторонами жизни. Чтобы почувствовать ухудшение баланса между работой и жизнью достаточно работать вечером/ночью несколько раз в месяц или один раз в месяц в выходные дни. Хотя результаты исследований свидетельствуют, что негативные эффекты нестандартных трудовых графиков проявляются с разной силой в зависимости от гендерных и семейных характеристик, мы не получили подтверждения того, что пол и наличие детей изменяют эффекты нестандартных трудовых графиков. Нестандартные трудовые графики, способные порождать серьезные социальные проблемы, заслуживают более пристального внимания научного сообщества и органов государственной власти. В частности, требуются дальнейшие исследования, включающие разнообразные индикаторы состояния здоровья, субъективного благополучия и социального самочувствия, применительно к различным категориям российских работников.

Патриотизм, лоббизм, демонстративность… Фреймирование импортозамещения в российских печатных СМИ

Цитирование: Казун А.Д., Дорофеева О.Е. (2019) Патриотизм, лоббизм, демонстративность… Фреймирование импортозамещения в российских печатных СМИ // Мир России. Т. 28. № 3. С. 132–154. DOI: 10.17323/1811-038X-2019-28-3-132-154
 В статье анализируется дискуссия в российской прессе по вопросу импортозамещения в период с августа 2014 по декабрь 2016 года. Отбор новостных сообщений производился с использованием базы печатных изданий «Интегрум». По итогам анализа 269 статей, опубликованных в «Российской газете», «Новой газете», «Комсомольской правде», «Коммерсанте», были выделены восемь основных фреймов, посредством которых конструировалась дискуссия: антизападный, патриотичный, «последствия», ностальгический, сентиментальный, «индивидуальные интересы», эгоистичный и демонстративный. Наиболее популярными оказались патриотичный фрейм и фрейм «последствия», при этом спектр используемых фреймов различался в зависимости от издания. На основании проведенного качественного анализа публикаций в СМИ был сформулирован список ключевых слов, которые использовались для определения места импортозамещения в сетевой повестке дня. Исследование совместных упоминаний этих слов в российской прессе позволил выделить три крупных кластера в публичной дискуссии по экономическим вопросам: экономико-политический, патриотично-эгоистичный и кластер протекционизма. По итогам исследования сделан вывод, что в дискуссии об импортозамещении сочетаются как экономические, так и политические аргументы, а СМИ, в свою очередь, часто прибегают к идеологическим конструктам для обоснования того или иного отношения к импортозамещению.

Конструирование образа антиалкогольной политики России в новостных медиа: риторика преодоления пьянства и контрриторические стратегии

Цитирование: Белова Ю.Ю. (2019) Конструирование образа антиалкогольной политики России в новостных медиа: риторика преодоления пьянства и контрриторические стратегии // Мир России. Т. 28. № 3. С. 155–175. DOI: 10.17323/1811-038X-2019-28-3-155-175
 В статье с позиций социального конструкционизма анализируются особенности создания новостными медиа образа антиалкогольной политики России. Тема исследования разворачивается от анализа риторики преодоления тяжелого пьянства как узкого аспекта алкоголизации населения к поиску стратегий контрриторики, связанных с антиалкогольными мерами государства. На основе результатов количественного (N=37903) и качественного (N=10002) контент-анализа тематических сообщений новостных медиа и их заголовков за 2016–2017 гг., произведенного с помощью информационно-аналитической системы «Медиалогия», построена авторская типология контрриторических стратегий в отношении антиалкогольной политики. Типология включает стратегии: 1) иронизации, связанной с высмеиванием мер преодоления алкоголизации населения, 2) вульгаризации, направленной на упрощение и искажение их смысла, 3) советизации, способствующей формированию ассоциативных связей современной антиалкогольной политики с горбачевской антиалкогольной кампанией, 4) мифологизации, культивирующей вымышленные представления об эффективности антиалкогольной политики, 5) гиперболизации, эксплуатирующей преувеличенные суждения о ней, 6) десакрализации, обесценивающей ее смыслы, и 7) патологизации, придающей сомнительность адекватности реализации антиалкогольных мер. Среди результатов исследования следует выделить анализ лейтмотивов сообщений новостных медиа и контрриторических стратегий, произведенный с помощью методологии П. Ибарры и Дж. Китсьюза. Сделан вывод, что используемая в СМИ контрриторика создает отчуждающий и даже катастрофический образ антиалкогольной политики. Результаты исследования свидетельствуют о наличии противоречия между риторикой преодоления тяжелого пьянства рестриктивными мерами и отчуждающим образом рестриктивной антиалкогольной политики государства. Основным выводом является то, что контрриторические стратегии, драматизирующие пути решения проблемы тяжелого пьянства, формируют восприятие фатальности процесса алкоголизации населения.

Королевство кривых зеркал: эволюция рынков нерегистрируемого алкоголя в России в 1980–2010-е годы

Вадим Валерьевич Радаев – доктор экономических наук, профессор, руководитель, Лаборатория экономико-социологических исследований, Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»; первый проректор, Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики». Адрес: 101000, Москва, ул. Мясницкая, д. 20. E-mail: radaev@hse.ru
 Цитирование: Радаев В.В. (2018) Королевство кривых зеркал: эволюция рынков нерегистрируемого алкоголя в России в 1980–2010-е годы // Мир России. Т. 27. № 3. С. 28–60. DOI: 10.17323/1811-038X-2018-27-3-28-60
 
 В работе анализируется эволюция разнородных рынков нерегистрируемого алкоголя в России с периода позднего социализма до наших дней. Особое внимание уделяется рынку домашнего алкоголя, рынку поддельной и фальсифицированной алкогольной продукции и рынку неучтенного алкоголя промышленного производства. Нелегальность этих рынков имеет разную подоснову, включая несоблюдение запретов на реализацию определенной продукции, нарушение прав на использование объектов интеллектуальной собственности или уклонение от уплаты налогов. На основе статистических, опросных и экспертных данных описываются разнородные рынки нерегистрируемого алкоголя и показывается, как меняется их комбинация по мере прохождения через четыре исторических этапа. Они включают (1) этап позднего социализма и жесткой антиалкогольной кампании (1980–1991 гг.), (2) этап либеральных реформ и резкого экономического спада (1992–1999 гг.), (3) этап консолидации государства и экономического роста (2000–2007 гг.), (4) этап экономической рецессии и новой алкогольной политики (с 2008 г. до настоящего времени). На каждом этапе на фоне меняющихся сложных констелляций политических, законодательных и экономических условий один из рынков активно развивался, в то время как другие оставались в неразвитом состоянии или отходили на второй план. Сначала доминировало потребление домашнего алкоголя (самогона); затем произошел всплеск контрафактного и фальсифицированного алкоголя; наконец, наблюдается экспансия рынка неучтенного алкоголя промышленного производства.
 Полученные данные свидетельствуют о том, что рынки нерегистрируемого алкоголя имеют тенденцию к расширению во времена экзогенных политических и экономических шоков. В периоды же относительной экономической стабильности и роста они сокращаются или, по крайней мере, остаются на прежнем уровне. В некоторые периоды рынки регистрируемого и нерегистрируемого алкоголя движутся в противоположных направлениях, в то время как в другие, более короткие, периоды они развиваются параллельно. Изменения в структуре рынков нерегистрируемого алкоголя сопровождаются периодическими переквалификациями продуктов, организаций и транзакций, когда оспариваются и смещаются границы между легальным и нелегальным. При этом отдельные нелегальные виды деятельности сохраняют в той или иной степени свою легитимность в силу двух дополняющих друг друга причин: неосведомленности или толерантности конечных потребителей и представителей госорганов, призванных осуществлять правоприменение. Границы между легитимным и нелегитимным, как правило, более неопределенные и меняются гораздо медленнее.

Cooperation in Rural Russia: Past, Present and Future

Alexander Sobolev – Doctor of Science in Economics, Professor, Russian University of Cooperation. Address: 12/30, V.Voloshina St., Mytishchi, Moscow Region, 141014, Russian Federation. E-mail: sobolev-alekc@mail.ru
 Alexander Kurakin – Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). Address: 11, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation. E-mail: akurakin@hse.ru
 Vladimir Pakhomov – Doctor of Science in Economics, Professor, Russian University of Cooperation. Address: 12/30, V.Voloshina St., Mytishchi, Moscow Region, 141014, Russian Federation. E-mail: vmpahomov@yandex.ru
 Irina Trotsuk – Doctor of Science in Sociology, Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Associate Professor, RUDN University. Address: 82, Vernadskogo Av., Moscow, 119571, Russian Federation. E-mail: irina.trotsuk@yandex.ru
 Citation: Sobolev A., Kurakin A., Pakhomov V., Trotsuk I. (2018) Cooperation in Rural Russia: Past, Present and Future. Mir Rossii, vol. 27, no 1, pp. 65–89. DOI: 10.17323/1811-038X-2018-27-1-65-89
 
 The authors consider cooperation as a specific, alternative form of economic organization to the standard business firm within a market economy, and focus on agricultural cooperation in Russia. First, the article engages with the key milestones of the history of cooperation in Russia: (1) the first attempts to establish cooperative organizations before the Russian Revolution (agricultural societies, agricultural partnerships and credit cooperatives) which gave the poor rural population a chance to improve living standards and ensured promising prospects for the long-term development of cooperation in all forms; (2) the dependent forms of consumer and production cooperation under the Soviet regime that deprived all collective forms of their true cooperative nature. In the second part of the article, the authors describe the current state of the cooperative movement in the Russian countryside and identify its basic features, such as opposition to family farming and the state capitalist tendencies of the concentration and vertical integration in the form of agroholdings; state rural cooperation policies which aim to promote and financially support small farming including the development of rural cooperatives; the number and types of cooperatives in the countryside; the reasons for debates on cooperation legislation; the viability of the main types of agricultural cooperatives (production, consumer, credit cooperation). Finally, the authors emphasize that cooperation in contemporary Russia does not fit the classic Western scheme of cooperative development and still has to overcome a number of substantial challenges (the soviet legacy, lack of bottom-up initiatives, the ideological and economic dominance of large-scale farming, poor academic expertise in the field of cooperation studies).

Interview with Ole Bjerg: “We Need to Put Things Back to Normal”

An interview with Ole Bjerg, an Associate professor at Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy (Copenhagen Business School), was conducted in May 2018 during his visit in Moscow. Prof. Bjerg has visited HSE and presented a Russian translation of his book Making Money: The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism [Bjerg 2014]. An interview was taken by Elena Gudova, a junior researcher at the Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, Higher School of Economics. During his presentation Ole Bjerg focused on the issue of introducing e-krona into Swedish monetary system and making money “full-fat” again. The initiative should give power in money emission back to Central Bank and put it under more transparency and control-we’ve been living in a world where commercial banks simply create money for too long. Bjerg suggests that interest toward money and finance is growing both in academia and among ordinary citizens in many countries. After the economic crisis of 2008-2009 it has become obvious that much of what is going on in the society is deeply connected to money, and the level of critical reflection has substantially increased. Bjerg applies Žižek’s (and Lacanian at the very beginning) lens of “the imaginary-the symbolic-the real” to different aspects of money and related phenomenon. Although the choice of theoretical approach might be unexpected, this is quite the way it should be. Theory is always a question of preference, and Žižek gives money analysis intrigue and surprise, while with Foucault “it’s always the butler.” The political reasons for financial crisis deal with the fact that central banks may favor the interests of financial sector prior to the general public. A systemic problem is debt, which is both a reason and an outcome of the money-making. According to Bjerg, debt is not only a powerful discipline instrument, but an obstacle for social change and development as well, as indebted individuals become more risk-averse with their life decisions. Still Bjerg concludes that the society should have money, but good money, normal money. Once people start publically talking about money problem, or maybe even ironize about it in different forms of art, it becomes a different sort of motivation and action, and normalization of money is possible.

Interview with Prof. Leon Kosals. The Police Acting in Russia Today are Consistent with Social, Economic and Political Conditions in the Country

Leon Kosals, tenured professor at National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE), was interviewed by Elena Berdysheva, Senior Research Fellow of Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology at NRU HSE, in January 2018. The interview focused a role of the police in economy which belongs to Prof. Kosals’s key research interests. He has been involved into police studies since the 1990s when the existing Soviet systems were broken. Militia and its relations with the society also were transformed. Under the weak state policemen, like others, had to survive. According to Porf. Kosals, police’s informal economic activities refer to main research areas for scholars from the former USSR and Eastern Europe, while others perceive them as marginal. The most popular issues which international researchers care about include the police and visual minorities, police violence, community policing, and digital technologies and communication’ effects on police culture, etc. Additionally, Prof. Kosals discusses interactions among different disciplines in the frameworks of police studies, including possible bridges between sociology and criminology. Prof. Kosals highlights fruitful partnership between social researchers, applying scientific methods to the law and crime, and policing as one of the important achievements of multidisciplinary studies.

Spill Your (Trade) Secrets: Knowledge Networks as Innovation Drivers

Theories of intellectual property take the individual inventor or the firm as the unit of innovation. But studies in economic sociology show that in complex fields where knowledge is rapidly advancing and widely dispersed among different firms, the locus of innovation is neither an individual nor a single firm. Rather, innovative ideas originate in the informal networks of learning and collaboration that cut across firms. Understanding innovation in this subset of industries as emerging out of networks of informal information-sharing across firms challenges traditional utilitarian theories of trade secret law — which assume trade secret protection is needed to prevent excessive private, self-help efforts to preserve secrecy. Doctrinally, knowledge network research suggests that the scope of trade secret protection in these industries should be narrow. In these industries, strong trade secret rights that grant managers tight control over employee-inventors’ informal information-sharing practices are bad innovation policy. Rather, optimizing trade secret law requires tailoring the strength of protection to match industry characteristics, narrowing trade secret scope in those industries where informal information-sharing networks play a prominent role. In turn, because industry types tend to cluster around geographic centers, the importance of tailoring cautions against current trends towards uniformity by federalizing trade secret law and favors state experimentalism in designing trade secret law and policy.

Интервью с Тома Пикетти: «Можно выгнать историю в дверь, но она немедленно вернётся через окно»

Thomas Piketty, Professor of Economics at the EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics, was interviewed by Olessia Kirtchik, Leading Research Fellow at the Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities at the Higher School of Economics. The interview was conducted during Prof. Piketty’s visit to Moscow in November 2015 when he gave lectures and introduced the Russian translation of his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Moscow: Ad Marginem Press, 2015). The Piketty's lecture at Higher School of Economics was arranged by the Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology (HSE) and the Franco-Russian Research Center in Moscow with support from the French Embassy and French University College in Moscow. In the interview, Prof. Piketty expressed his skepticism about economists’ tendencies toward using formal models. Early on, he recognized the limits of an economic approach that was applied in ignorance of history. This profoundly affected his future academic career. He admits that his successful research on inequality was possible only in cooperation with other social disciplines. In addition, Prof. Piketty talked about main ideas of his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century and its restrictions. In particular, he pointed out that there has been insufficient attention toward economic growth.In his opinion, in order to explain economic growth, one should take into account historical perspective and analyze government’s policies toward public education and the health system. The French economist also noted his intention to reconcile Karl Marx and Pierre Bourdieu’s conflicting views on a relationship between economic and cultural forms of inequality.

Нужно ли заниматься крупными темами в социологии? Семинар Лаборатории экономико-социологических исследований, 6 сентября 2016 г., Москва, Россия

The new season of weekly seminars of the Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology started on September 6, 2016. The department head and first vice rector of HSE, Vadim Radaev, was a speaker, and his presentation explored links between concrete empirical studies and “broad topics” in sociology. Radaev suggested looking for topics that are not separate from empirical findings and connect many subject areas. A draft research project was considered as an illustrative example. The point was to relate a decrease in alcohol consumption by Millennials (those born in 1982-1999) to larger-scale social shifts and potentially to the withering away of a “Soviet common man” from the position of a dominant social type. Alcohol consumption was chosen as an indicator because of its close relationship to multiple life spheres: healthcare, politics, economy, everyday communication, etc. The paradox is that despite enjoying favorable conditions for drinking, Millennials consume about two times less alcohol than previous generations. By applying a cohort analysis to illuminate this paradox, Vadim Radaev attributed it to massive sociocultural changes in post-Soviet Russia. The presentation included a lively discussion of both methodical issues and general methodological considerations. The discussion was carried out by laboratory researchers Elena Berdysheva, Dilyara Ibragimova, Anna Kruglova, Olga Kuzina, Andrey Shevchuk, and numerous HSE students.

Transactional and Relational Exchange in Supply Chains: Constitutive Elements and Main Factors

Drawing upon previous studies in economic sociology and relationship marketing, we distinguish between the transactional and the relational forms of interfirm market exchange and suggest an original typology of their constitutive elements, which are attached to the phases of the interfirm yearly contract cycle. An index of relational exchange is constructed to measure a degree of embeddedness in the supply chain relationships. Empirical data were collected by the author and the HSE research team in 2013 from a standardized survey in the grocery and non-food sectors in Russia. In total, 843 questionnaires were completed by the managers of retail companies and their suppliers. Research findings present the distribution of two types of market exchange and their constitutive elements. Prevalence of hybrid governance forms is demonstrated. Ordinal regression model is used to reveal the main factors that facilitate relational exchange.

Developmental Programs in Local Communities

This article analyses the impact of developmental programmes on social integration in two Hungarian small towns. It studies changing patterns of social integration in two settlements sharing similar endowments, with respect to a middle-sized Roma population living in segregated neighbourhoods. Drawing on recent studies in economic sociology, social integration is used as a proxy for socio-economic development and explained by differences in the transformation of local institutions. Divergences in institutional change influence the innovation capacity of communities and institutional change distributes authority among a variety of local and central state, non-state, for- profit and non-profit actors providing space for their association and forming the basis of an integrated local community. The main aim of the study is mapping the factors and mechanisms that shape and generate institutional change in support of social cohesion and development. Our cases explore that in the absence of such institutions, public goods are more likely to be appropriated by incumbents, which hinders the evolution of innovative solutions to socio-economic problems and weakens the developmental capacities of communities.

Ties That Bind: Ethnic Ties and New Venture Internationalization

We develop a nuanced perspective of the influence of social capital on the internationalization of new ventures, drawing from cluster studies in economic geography and migration studies in economic sociology. It is well understood that social ties influence the internationalization trajectory of new ventures. However, economic geography suggests that whether a firm is located within a cluster or not can have a significant impact on its networking behaviour. In a similar vein, studies on global migration suggest ethnicity plays a significant role in how people build social capital to gain tacit information and legitimacy across borders. We integrate these dimensions into the study of international entrepreneurship, and attempt to distinguish between the roles of ethnic and non-ethnic ties in new venture internationalization. Using survey data from 102 Indian software new ventures, we find a puzzling observation: While ventures outside clusters build more ethnic ties, it is ventures within clusters that are able to leverage such relationships for international growth. Furthermore, non-ethnic ties are found to be more significant for international growth than are ethnic ties. We follow up the quantitative analysis with an in-depth qualitative study to provide additional explanations. We discuss the implication of these findings for both theory and practice, and propose further research to explore the interaction of diaspora and network effects on new venture internationalization.

Практики правоприменения в России: правила игры de jure и de facto. Репортаж с XVI Апрельской международной научной конференции «Модернизация экономики и общества», 7–10 апреля 2015 г.

As part of the XVI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, HSE - Moscow, two sessions on economics and law were held 9 April 2015. The first session, Law Enforcement and Entrepreneurs, was chaired by a leading researcher from the Institute of Law Enforcement at the European University in St. Petersburg Kirill Titaev and the second session, Economic Analysis of Regulatory Bodies, was moderated by Andrey Shastitko, researcher from the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies, HSE Moscow. Speakers at the sessions included Irina Chetverikova (Institute for the Rule of Law at the European University at Saint-Petersburg), L. Bardin (Central Bar in Moscow), Anton Kazun (HSE), Zinaida Poghosova (HSE) and Elena Podkolzina (HSE), D. Tsytsulina (HSE - Nizhny Novgorod), Svetlana Avdasheva HSE), and Svetlana Golovanova (HSE - Nizhny Novgorod).The direction of the debate in the first session was partly formulated by Titaev, when he noted that more correct name for first session would be Law and Rational Choice. According to the Titaev, in this case, it is appropriate to speak about economic rationality, which is common to all parties involved in the process: the accused, the victim, judges and defendants. At the next session, the focus shifted to the discussion of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). Real decision-making practices and risks of introducing criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the organization were at the center of the debate. Both sessions highlighted the obvious challenge that often formal rules and their changes do not completely determine the situation, but may also be influenced by informal norms. The distinction between formal rules and informal norms is a key issue of economic sociology. The focus of both sessions was not only the formal rules in law enforcement system, but also real-life practices. Speakers described the logic of awarding judgment using the examples from different legal cases. They concluded that actions which seem illogical for an external observer (such as the refusal of companies to provide FAS evidence in their favor) often have their own internal rationality. Therefore, researchers need to know not only the laws, but also the informal norms. This problem has been widely discussed in recent years and definitely will be an important issue for future studies in economic sociology.

Состояние и перспективы развития рынка социологических исследований в России

The round table “Current State and Prospects of the Social and Market Research in Russia” was held April 4, 2014 as a part of the XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, HSE (Moscow). Two main presentations were made by Sergey Protsenko (South-Russian Research Center “Factor”; Association of Regional Sociological Centers “Group 7/89”) and Andrey Yakovlev (Institute for Industrial and Market Studies, HSE; Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (ARETT)). The round table chaired by Alexander Chepurenko (dean of the Faculty of Sociology, HSE) was also attended by Vasily Tokarev (Center “ANALYST”, Volgograd), Vladimir Zvonovsky (Social surveys fund, Samara), Alexander Demidov (GFK, Moscow), Oleg Dembo (“O+K”, international research association ESOMAR, St. Petersburg), Igor Zadorin (ZIRCON, Moscow), Stepan Lvov (Russian Public Opinion Research Center, Moscow), Vadim Radaev (Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, HSE, Moscow), etc. The main subject of the round table was the changes in the structure and development trends in the Russian sociological research market. Paradoxically, today sociological research industry in Russia remains poorly studied, despite the fact that its members are engaged in active exploration of other markets and services. As Alexander Chepurenko noted “The cobbler always wears the worst shoes.” This statement perfectly reflects the current situation of Russian sociologists who have little to say about the market size and the composition of members as well as about the general idea of the major problems faced by Russian research companies nowadays. The article represents the current state and main types of participants of Russian market for sociological research, describes the main trends as well as the key issues, challenges and solutions in the industry and provides the market prospects in the near future.

Relational Work and Economic Sociology

This paper attempts to clarify the concept of relational work for understanding economic life as proposed by Viviana Zelizer. To do so, it first compares the concept to similar notions used in other disciplinary fields. Second, it reinterprets some exemplary economic sociology studies by using the relational work lens to clarify the concept’s utility for empirical analysis. Third, it speculates about the place of relational work in the theoretical toolkit of economic sociologists, in particular its relation to embeddedness. The paper concludes by arguing for the utility of the concept to integrate structural, cultural, and power-focused analyses of economic life, to highlight the often-overlooked role of emotions in economic exchange, and to ground an alternative to rational action theory in economic sociology.

Третья летняя школа Лаборатории экономико-социологических исследований НИУ ВШЭ «Российская экономическая социология: проблемы и стратегии интернационализации». 6−11 июля 2011 г., г. Звенигород, Московская область, Россия

Третья летняя школа Лаборатории экономико-социологических исследований НИУ ВШЭ «Российская экономическая социология: проблемы и стратегии интернационализации». 6−11 июля 2011 г., г. Звенигород, Московская область, Россия

Вторая Летняя школа ЛЭСИ ГУ ВШЭ «Новые подходы к преподаванию экономической социологии» (Голицыно, 9—14 июля 2009 г.): интервью с В. Радаевым, М. Соколовым, Д. Стребковым

Вторая Летняя школа ЛЭСИ ГУ ВШЭ «Новые подходы к преподаванию экономической социологии» (Голицыно, 9—14 июля 2009 г.): интервью с В. Радаевым, М. Соколовым, Д. Стребковым

A Sociologia Econômica

Philippe Steiner's A Sociologia Economica is an introduction and an appreciation of economic sociology studies on markets. The author approaches works including from the issue of social construction of markets to explaining their workings to its cultural meaning in modern society. Through the analysis of those studies, the author advocates a complementary relationship between economic theory and economic sociology. Therefore, it has a textbook character, since it explains and systematizes a field of knowledge for beginners and, at the same time, it presents elements of original reflection on the field