Zhanna Chernova

National Research University Higher School of Economics | HSE · Faculty of Sociology, Saint Petersburg

The article examines the reproductive decisions of Russian urban middle‐class women. We look at women’s lives in the context of Russian pronatalist family policy and the official conservative gender ideology of 2019–2020. Based on biographical interviews with 35 young women, we focus on working mothers. The sample is composed of middle‐class mother...

The article is devoted to the analysis of ideas of women belonging to three generations about their rights. Women’s rights are considered as part of the concept of gender citizenship, which includes ideologically and institutionalized ideas about normative gender contract for women, as well as their own meanings and values that they attribute to th...

Russia is undergoing a reform of its child welfare system. The general aim of the reform is deinstitutionalization. This implies fundamental changes at the ideological and institutional levels to redesign the system of residential care for children left without parental care and to develop a system of family placement. Based on expert interviews, t...

The article aims at the analysis of children’s perception of the changes in their lives due to the loss of a biological family and moving to a foster family. We analyze how children experience and subjectively perceive their foster family life experience. On the base of children biographies we build typical life trajectories, which are shaped in in...

Современная корпоративная среда в контексте текучей современности по З. Бауману в большой степени определяется уровнем свободы: гибкостью, мобильностью, новыми технологиями и средствами массовых коммуникаций. Возникает практика повсеместного использования сетевых подключений в рабочей и личной сфере, обозначаемая понятием «гиперконнективность». Гип...

Meri Kulmala – Dr., Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies/Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland. Email: meri.kulmala@helsinki.fi Michael Rasell – Dr., School of Health & Social Care, University of Lincoln, UK. Email: mrasell@lincoln.ac.uk Zhanna Chernova – Dr. Sciences...

The article deals with the analysis of St Petersburg middle-class parents' perception of urban space. The city is presented as a space of conflict of different actors fighting to define their place in the city, its optimal use and the boundaries between child and adult spaces. The paper is based on the empirical research results (analysis of interv...

This article considers the professionalization of parenthood as one of the key tendencies in contemporary Russian parenting culture. Parenting culture is a set of care practices that are embedded within the certain meanings and ideological contexts of both a particular social group and society in general. Professionalization can be conceptualised a...

Research on urban young people in Russia employed in business shows how issues of gender, career, and family relations affect reproductive behavior. It suggests that in Russia young adults are characterized by a pragmatic egalitarianism as a way to map out marriage and reproductive strategies, as well as to achieve a balance between family and work...

"Soviet" fatherhood may be analyzed as a particular type of parenthood, with its own discursive elements and specifics. The gender policy of the Soviet state was neither consistent nor coherent and was at times discriminatory—part of an official policy, enshrined in law, to mold new exemplars of masculinity and femininity.

This paper analyzes contemporary Russian family policy, focusing on the state's ideological orientation and the political measures it has taken with regard to the family as a social institution. Documents representing official and normative discourse of family policy in contemporary Russia serve here as data for the study. The paper identifies stag...

Используя концептуальный аппарат социологии знания, авторы анализируют условия производства различных версий социологического образования. Основное внимание уделяется национальным образовательным стандартам и их влиянию на разработку учебных планов на региональном уровне. На основе эмпирических данных выделены два типа стратегий формирования учебны...