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Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета

In recent years, within Russian medical anthropology and sociology there has been an increasing interest in the research direction “Medical Choice”. In this regard, the methodology of studying the treatment decision-making process suggested by the American anthropologist L. Garro is&...

Stigmatization of people living with HIV is the main obstacle to status disclosure. The main difficulties in the study of stigmatization are the difficult access to stigmatized individuals and the effect of the interviewer. Online forums are an important source of data for&#...

Social sciences today are very sensitive to public health problems, a fact which leads to the emergence of new research areas and discussions about new varieties of social problems. In this article, the author engages with the phenomenon of bipolar disorder, which the m...

The article is devoted to consideration of the issues of a “turn to biology” in modern social sciences. It is discussed how reasonable is the use of this term, and which new issues and phenomena have appeared in the field of social sciences because of this...

Editorial

The article outlines the conceptual foundations of the sociology of property when it is institutionalized within the framework of domestic economic sociology. It is noted that Marxist sociology and political economy became the theoretical and methodological basis of this new direction...

This article relates V. Ya. Yelmeev’s original and innovative argumentation and development of applied sociology as a specific function of Sociology. It is connected with application of sociological laws and principles to particular social problems in order to solve them. Such un...

V. Elmeev in the memory of followers

Looking for new voices abroad. Review of Lu Xun forum in Germany

The article examines the USSR’s economic assistance strategy to Afghanistan on the threshold of the Soviet Troops’ withdrawal on the basis of recently declassified data from the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History. The main aspects of the Soviet economic as...

The 1930-s are known as a turning point in the history of Hausa literature of Northern Nigeria. It was a time during which a new form of creative writing, prose fiction, emerged. The present article analyzes one of the first creative works of Hausa literature ...

This article deals with the structure of the poetry of hidden meaning (dhvani), giving a brief review of the key traditional Indian aesthetic values and poetical standards typical of Sanskrit lyric poetry of the classical period. The close-up study of the poetry of hidd...

The paper considers the subject of communication and loneliness raised in the novel “One Sentence Is Worth Ten Thousand” (2009) by Chinese writer Liu Zhenyun (b. 1958). In this novel, Liu Zhenyun describes in detail the feelings of common people who are in the endl...

The article provides an overview of the modern Egyptian novel of Mohammad Rabie. It is a dystopian piece that presents an alternative story of events that could have taken place after the Egyptian Revolution that took place in the country in January 2011. Rabie dra...