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(3.) the group on rural family problems;
(4.) the group on social problems of orphans;
(5.) the group on conditions of life of orphan children;
(6.) the group on the sociodynamics of culture;
(7.) the group on social planning forecasting;
(8.) the group on the democratization of science problems;
(9.) the group on cummunicative adequacy of polls,
(10.) the group on data acquisition methods;
(11.) the group on the application of mathematical methods;
(12.) the group on the preparation of analytical materials. laboratory: there is one laboratory
on the problems of the introduction of managerial innovations.
There are a number of scientific collectives organized by the institute:
(1.) a provisional scientific collective on the general problems of social structure with
groups on the sociology of education and the research of the genesis and structure of
bureaucracy;
(2.) a provisional scientific collective on the study of the development of the cooperative
movement in Russia, and
(3.) a provisional scientific collective on the social problems of alcoholism and drug abuse.
The institute maintains a Department in the city of Nizhnii Novgorod and a sector in the city
of Krasnoda.
Research thrusts: there are three main programs of institute-wide research concern:
(1.) Man in the process of restructuring social relations and the institutions of renewed socialism
under V. A. Iadov (1989-92);
(2.) Social processes under perestroika under V. A. Iadov (1989-92),
(3.) Theoretical and methodological problems and the history of sociology.
Personnel: Director Vladimir A. Yadov, since '88; Deputy Directors: Levikin, Ivan T., D.
Phil. S., since '81; Mansurov, Nikolai S., D. Phil. S., since '75; and Sbitov V. F.,
since '83.
1997 update: The Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of
Sciences has various groups that conduct survey research. The
largest, most experienced group is headed by Drs. Polina Kozyreva
and Mikhail Kosolapov. Dr. Kozyreva heads the Department of
Social Topology, reflecting her interest in the social structure of
society. She is the author of many articles on this topic. Dr.
Kosolapov heads the Department of Methods and Methodology. He is
the former vice president of Committee 33 (The Methodology and
Logic of Sociology) of the International Sociological Association,
and the vice director of the same committee in the Soviet Sociological
Association. He is the author of many scientific works on data
collection, measurement, sampling, conceptualization in empirical
sociology, and the analysis of data.
Drs. Kozyreva and Kosolapov have been involved in survey research for
twenty years. Prior to 1989, their surveys were normally based on
people in institutions such as factories and schools because surveys
of the general population were prohibited. When drawing samples of
territories became feasible in 1990, their group became one of the
first to undertake national surveys of the Soviet Union, or of entire
republics within the Soviet Union.
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