Elena Berdysheva

• National Research University Higher School of Economics

Strong motivation to selfcare is assumed by design of contemporary healthcare policy. However, both western and Russian studies show motivational deficit and inattention to prevention care among population. Actual paper examines the problem of motivation as a relational choice. Opposing to the view on motivation as a part of individual will, we con...

Earning has been traditionally prescribed to male identity, while housekeeping management to the female. The opening of the labor market for women partly weakened gender inequality and the connection between gender and economic performance. However, that decision only opened a “male” economic role for all and kept the “female”-governing household e...

On the data of 63 in-depth interviews conducted in crisis 2014–2017 and post-crisis 2018–2019 and analyzed in the framework of sociological cognitivism and the new economic sociology, the article reconstructs semantic logics being used by Russian consumers when they interpret money prices. It is assumed that in a market society, reactions to prices...

Leon Kosals, tenured professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE), was interviewed by Elena Berdysheva (NRU HSE). The interview focused on his research regarding the role of the police in the economy. Kosals has been involved in police studies since the 1990s when the existing Soviet system collapsed, transform...

The article discusses the price perception of Russian consumers. The data gathered from in-depth interviews with economically active residents of Moscow demonstrate that the interpretation of price can be thematized according to four main categories: “not to be deceived,” “prices are watched by the clever not the poor,” “people like me buy at such...

Using qualitative data, this study explores Russians' reactions to increases in consumer prices caused by the current economic crisis. The financial turbulence has reinforced doubts about the fairness of market prices and the overall legitimacy of the market order in Russia. Suspicion and cynicism about the State and seller behavior become the main...

The article demonstrates that crimes that come to the attention of the criminal police have varying worth in the eyes of Russian policemen and, consequently, attract unequal efforts. The worth of crimes is closely related to the criteria for evaluation of police performance. The data derived from 12 in-depth interviews with Russian police officers,...

This article decomposes the perception of prices by Russian consumers. The data of in-depth interviews with economically active residents of Moscow demonstrates that the interpretation of price can be thematized according to four main areas: "not to be deceived," "it is not a poor person who checks prices, but a smart one," "people ‘like me’ buy at...