Vol. 4 No. 3 (2026): Russia’s Directions. The Journal of Russian Social Research and Ethnography

Published: 2026-08-25

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Methodology and methods of social research

• Content Analysis in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

  Sergey Еnin (Author)

  9-43

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• AI in the Workplace: The Current State of Research in the Social Sciences

  Daria Talakauskas (Author)

  44-67

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Research on human-animal interaction

• Living Near Here, or How Sociologists Study Animals. An introduction to the category

  Dmitry Rogozin (Author)

  69-79

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• Co-presence without communication: tactics for avoiding verbal interaction with dog owners while walking your dog

  Maxim Kotelnikov (Author)

  80-95

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• Between Instrument and Victim: The Laboratory Animal in Biomedical Discourse

  Elizaveta Chashchevaya (Author)

  96-114

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• Research 404: What Have We Learned About Ourselves, Science, and Anthrozoolological Methodology by Studying Relocants

  Sofya Lopatko, Petr Ivanov (Author)

  115-133

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Sociology of Science

• Fundamental sociology as a research project. Public talk with Pavel Stepantsov

  Alexander Filippov (Author)

  135-167

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• Pragmatic regimes of sociologists’ sense-building. Experiments in existential sociology

  Artem Shobyrev (Author)

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Reviews

• Kazenin K., Starodubrovskaya I. Between Tradition and Modernity. Life of North Caucasian Rural Communities in the Post-Soviet Era. Moscow: Khamovniki Foundation for Support of Social Research; Common Place, 2025

  Lubov Ovchintseva (Author)

  203-205

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• Hertz, N. The Loneliness Paradox: A Global Study of Humanity’s Growing Disconnection and Its Consequences. Translated from English by A. Pitizin. Moscow: Eksmo, 2024

  Varvara Beskhmelnitsyna (Author)

  206-209

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• Mazzucato, M. Rent in the Digital Age. Moscow: Gaidar Institute Press, 2026

  Damir Davletov (Author)

  210-213

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