scholarly journals Where is Trauma Society Heading? A book review: Toshchenko Zh.T. Obshchestvo Travmy: Mezhdu Evolyutsiei i Revolyutsiei (Opyt Teoreticheskogo i Empiricheskogo Analiza). [Society of Trauma: Between Evolution and Revolution (Experience of Theoretical and Ap

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-201
Author(s):  
Valentin G. Nemirovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Trauma Society ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This review evaluates the monograph which follows up the cycle of seminal works on the controversial issues of social changes written by the prominent Russian sociologist — Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences RAS Zh.T. Toshchenko. His focus is on understudied aspects of the concept of a “trauma society”. This concept characterizes the situation of a specific modality, an intermediate option between the evolutionary and revolutionary paths of development. The concept of “sociology of life”, which has been repeatedly used by the author, is advantageous in terms of the theoretical understanding of this situation. Using solid statistical data, the monograph shows the apparent insufficiency of such concepts as “democratic and authoritarian path of development” when it comes to describing the evolution of any country. It is difficult to disagree with the author’s opinion, which states that these are ineffective as criteria for social progress or regression. Of undoubted interest for specialists is the typology of modern societies of trauma that is given in the work. This typology is based on the factors that have generated a socially traumatic situation. The monograph pays special attention to the manifestations of trauma in Russian society. The author’s extensive use of the results of representative empirical studies is an important advantage of the work. The monograph reveals the precise contours of an innovative academic project, which serves as a fundamental basis for further researching the complicated and poorly studied phenomenon of “society of trauma”.

Book Review: Toshchenko Zh.T. Trauma Society: Between Evolution and Revolution (The Experience of Theoretical and Empirical Analysis). Moscow: Ves’ Mir, 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 152-159
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Krivosheev
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Trauma Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Research ◽  
Further Development

The review reveals the basic conceptions elaborated by one of the major Russian modern sociologists Zh.T. Toshchenko in his new research. The reviewer argues that the book’s author thoroughly examines the various methodological grounds for identifying the essential characteristics of social dynamics. At the same time, the reviewer focuses on the further development of the theory of modern society, proposed by the book’s author. Thus, Zh.T. Toshchenko, who spent many years researching social deformations, formulates an important concept – the concept of a society of trauma as the third modality of social development along with evolution and revolution. The book offers a fundamentally new view of social life, there is a holistic, systematic approach to all its processes and phenomena. The reviewer concludes that the new book of the social theorist Zh.T. Toshchenko is a significant contribution to sociological theory, since it develops ideas about the state and prospects of Russian society, gives accurate assessments of all social processes.

scholarly journals Precariat: from a proto-class to a new class. Review of the monograph of Zh.T. Toshchenko

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-224
Author(s):  
S. V. Kozin
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
New Class ◽  
The Past ◽  
Clear Vision ◽  
Number Of Classes ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

As you know, the study of the past, present and such a vague future of society (and its number of classes) still attracts the gaze of many representatives of the scientific academic society (including colleagues in the sociological workshop). This article is a review of the monograph of corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Zh.T. Toshchenko “Precariat: from the proto-class to the new class”, published in 2018 by “Nauka” publishing house. The monograph allows the reader to feel how rapidly the socio-class structure of foreign, Soviet, and then Russian society was changing. In it, Zh.T. Toshchenko clearly reflects the historical aspects of the development and functioning of a new social class — the “precariat”. The conclusion is proved that the precariat does not have a clear vision of its future, confidence in the security of its personal life and the guarantee of a quiet old age at the end of employment. An impressive number of foreign and domestic statistical data further confirms the conclusions of reasonable Zh.T. Toshchenko. In the future, the author of the monograph explores the consequences of the existence and functioning of this new social-class phenomenon.

Down's Syndrome and Institutionalization

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-166
Author(s):  
Albert P. Scheiner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Down's Syndrome ◽  
Down’S Syndrome ◽  
York Academy ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Affected Child ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The Family ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The book review by Hans Zellweger, M.D. in the December 1971 issue of Pediatrics of the New York Academy of Sciences' monograph on Down's Syndrome presents some very controversial issues in reference to the institutionalization of retarded children. Dr. Zellweger advocates that "parents have to be convinced that the separation is for the benefit of the affected child and not only for the rest of the family." I am afraid that I also would have to be convinced of the appropriateness of this course of action.

scholarly journals Changes in Value Orientations in Serbia, 2003–2018 . Patriarchy, Authoritarianism and Nationalism

Südosteuropa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-431
Author(s):  
Irena Petrović ◽  
Marija Radoman
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Ethnic Nationalism ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public

AbstractThe authors analyze the changes in value patterns—patriarchy, authoritarianism and nationalism—in Serbia in the context of the social changes that have marked the postsocialist transformation period. They focus on the extent and intensity of two sub-patterns within each of these three basic value patterns: private and public patriarchy, general and specific authoritarianism, organic (natural) and ethnic nationalism. The conclusions about changes in these value patterns are drawn on the basis of three empirical studies conducted in 2003, 2012, and 2018. They show the prevalence of private patriarchy, general authoritarianism, and organic (natural) nationalism over their counterparts. Private patriarchy has weakened, which is largely to be explained by the significant structural changes in Serbia. On the other hand, support of general authoritarianism and organic (natural) nationalism has been on the rise, which clearly mirrors the unfavorable economic and political situation in the country.

«Russia, Russia! Keep Yourself, Keep it!..» Book review: Essays on the History of Russian Custodians (‘Khranitel’stvo’

2021 ◽  
pp. 367-370
Author(s):  
Boris Yu. Aleksandrov ◽  
Olga Ye. Puchnina
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Precise Definition ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Russian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Original Phenomenon ◽  
The 19Th Century

The ideas of conservative modernization of Russian society are currently very relevant. However, the concept of «conservatism» in modern discourse is very ambiguous, and most importantly, not fully relevant to the complex of domestic socio-political and religious-philosophical ideas that have developed since the existence of the Old Russian state. A much more precise definition in this regard is the concept of “Khranitel’stvo”, which organically developed in the Russian tradition almost until the end of the 19th century and which is a unique and original phenomenon of the intellectual culture of Russia. On the basis of large historical and theoretical material, the authors of the monograph study the ideological origins, essence and evolution of «Khranitel’stvo» as a specific socio-political direction of Russian thought.

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