Academic freedom and international standards in higher education: Contestation in journalism and political science at Moscow State University

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Butterfield ◽  
Ekaterina Levintova
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
International Standards ◽  
State University ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Curricular Materials ◽  
Moscow State University

Recently two new departments, the School of Broadcast Journalism and the Department of Political Science, were created at Moscow State University while leaving the two traditional departments that engendered them intact. The result has been a contestation over academic freedom, standards, and the very definition of both disciplines at Russia’s premier university. The new departments are both closely associated with United Russia, the dominant political party in Russian politics and the political movement designed to promote the priorities and policies of Prime Minister and former President Vladimir Putin. This paper examines the self-definition of each of the four departments by means of open-ended, semi-structured interviews with faculty and content-analytic examination of curricular materials, including syllabi and assigned readings. We conclude that the newer departments are somewhat more attuned to certain aspects of the international standards of both disciplines, but demonstrate little adherence to key ethical and pedagogical norms, leaving them more susceptible to political influence.

Contradictions and challenges of Eurasian integration: ways to overcome

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Елена Худоренко ◽  
Elena Hudorenko ◽  
Михаил Кротов ◽  
Mihail Krotov ◽  
Мария Валовая ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
State University ◽  
National Economies ◽  
Moscow State University ◽  
Eurasian Region

The monograph edited by L. E. Slutsky "Contradictions and challenges of Eurasian integration: ways of overcoming" is the contribution of the staff of the Department of international relations and integration processes of the faculty of political science of Moscow state University. M. V. Lomonosov in understanding the prospects and contradictions of Eurasian integration. For those interested in the problems of development of national economies of the Eurasian region and modern trends of Eurasian integration.

scholarly journals Protestivity and civic activism in youth: problems and contradictions

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 01051
Author(s):  
Irina V. Polozhentseva ◽  
Galina N. Yulina ◽  
Tat’yana L. Kashchenko ◽  
Vitaly V. Kalita
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
State University ◽  
Civic Activism ◽  
Network Interaction ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Moscow State University ◽  
Protest Activity

The present study combines a theoretical analysis of youth protest as a special social phenomenon and the results of an empirical study. Based on the empirical study conducted by the authors in the Moscow State University of Technology and Management (First Cossack University), an analysis of the protest activity of youth (students) in the 2010s is conducted. The authors rely on a set of methodological approaches and methods of analysis: conceptual, behaviorist, and socio-cultural approaches, as well as the network approach aimed at understanding the basic constructs of the digital age and digital communications as a new social reality. The authors develop the method of discourse analysis to demonstrate the protest activism being contingent on the rapidly changing conditions. The modern definition of protest is analyzed. The term protestivity is introduced and its heuristic value is substantiated. The distinction between civic activism and protestivity is drawn. The authors explore the preconditions for the formation of protest: youth lumpenization, deprivation (inconsistency between the increased social expectations of young people and the real possibilities for their realization). The manifestations of youth protestivity in the modern conditions increasingly acquiring the structure of network interaction are studied. It is concluded that the repertoire of youth protestivity in a digital society is modifying. The article demonstrates that positive (constructive) forms of protest activity contribute to the formation of a conventional form of interaction between youth and authorities. Involvement in positive forms of activism stops the natural potential of youth protest. The future largely depends on what status the authorities assign to youth.

scholarly journals Nouns Formed with -ism Suffix as a Type of Nominalization in Modern Russian Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-124
Author(s):  
Zhang Shuchun ◽  
Olga V. Kukushkina
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
State University ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Syntactic Function ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Syntactic Derivation ◽  
Moscow State University ◽  
Modern Russian

In the article Russian nouns formed with -ism suffix, often containing borrowed roots from other Indo-European languages, are analyzed from the perspective of their syntactic function as nominalization. As nominalization regarded in linguistics as a type of pure syntactic transformation (or “syntactic derivation” according to the definition of Jerzy Kuryłowicz), the -ost’ suffix as a word-formational formant for syntactic derivation is well acknowledged and described. As a contrast, the studied group of nouns with -ism suffix is seldom associated with or regarded as deadjectival nominals in previous works and dictionaries. Our analysis based on explanatory and morpheme dictionaries has shown, the motivational correlation between nouns with -ism suffix and adjectives are described in multiple ways, often contrasted one another. For instance, -isms are described in the morpheme dictionary (Lopantin, Ulukhanov 2016) as deadjectival nouns, while in the Shvedova dictionary as non-derivatives, motivating adjectives of quality. In addition, the seme ‘quality’ is also described variously in the two dictionaries – directly or using synonyms with different formants. The analysis of word-usages of -isms was conducted with the corpus “Russian Newspapers of the End of the XX Century”, developed by the Laboratory for General and Computational Lexicology and Lexicography (Lomonosov Moscow State University). The analysis has shown that the diagnostic context automatically differentiate the usage of -isms as nominalizations are the dependent names of the “feature carrier”, which as a result of nominalization has been moved from the position of subject to a dependent attribute.

scholarly journals Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
N. S. Fedorkin ◽  
N. V. Karpova
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
State University ◽  
Priority Areas ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Moscow State University

This article is devoted to the history of the Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes of the Faculty of Sociology at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The stages of the organization and formation of the Department, the processes of teaching formation and methodological activities, which have occurred over the thirty-year history of the Faculty of Sociology, are considered, and the priority areas of the professors research works are outlined.

scholarly journals About the round table “Lobbyism as an informal political institute: problems, national models, mechanisms and technologies”

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 99-101
Author(s):  
Article Editorial
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Round Table ◽  
State University ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
National Models ◽  
Democratic Systems ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Moscow State University

On April 27, 2018 at the Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes of the Faculty of Sociology of Moscow State University, a round table was held on the theme “Lobbyism as an Informal Political Institute: Problems, National Models, Mechanisms and Technologies”. The purpose of the round table was to discuss topical issues of lobbying as an informal political institution, a structural element of the mechanism of democratic systems. The analysis of the problem involved the consideration of lobbyism in historical, social, political, economic, cultural and methodological aspects. Current section proposes readers series of publications of those authors who participated in the round table, prepared on the basis of their speeches and sum-maries of the discussion materials.

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