Irina Trotsuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 96357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irina Trotsuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irina |
| FAMILY NAME | Trotsuk |
| SIGNATURE | TROTSUK I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peoples' Friendship University of Russia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2279-3588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Digital trend in the development of communication between Russia’s authorities and population
In the contemporary information society, the state not only strives for but is often forced to develop a dialogue with citizens in the online space - on websites, portals, apps and social networks that have become an integral part of our everyday life. Personal appeals to officials have become online - instead of spending hours in state institutions, we quickly fill out special forms in electronic “reception rooms”, which gives rise to new forms …
Flat Earth
The article is an essay based on two recently published in Russian popular science books, both mentioning the flat Earth in their titles (although one only in its Russian edition) but for solving different research problems. The first book by V. Giacomotto-Charra and S. Nony The Flat Earth : Genealogy of a False Idea reconstructs the myth about the origin of the flat Earth myth and could not do without detailed characteristics of the essence and …
Main components of the sociological study of happiness
The search for answers to the question of what happiness is and what is necessary for it began in ancient times, but there are still no unambiguous findings. Ancient philosophers proposed various concepts of happiness, linking it with virtue, absence of suffering or life in accordance with reason - today these ideas are still shared to some extent but considered insufficient for understanding and finding happiness. First surveys on happiness date…
Tattoo as an object of sociological interest
Even with the most “naked” eye it is difficult not to notice the growing prevalence of tattoos in the Russian society (beyond any generational, gender, professional or social boundaries), which makes tattooing an important object of sociological analysis and requires identifying its subject field, since tattooing is such an ancient social phenomenon that it has long been the focus of interdisciplinary research (historical, anthropological, philos…
Is reliable sociological measurement of social well-being possible? The case of Ghana
The desire to improve living conditions and social well-being has always determined efforts of both researchers and reformers, especially since the last quarter of the 20th century, filled with different types of development ideas. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Agenda implies accelerating the pace of basic human development with “leaving no one behind”, focusing mainly on improving the standard of living. However, in the…
Some (relatively) new conceptual ‘frames’ supplementing the study of human capital in rural sociology
The article continues the authors’ thoughts about the necessary conceptual frameworks that would help rural sociology provide more reliable insights and data in the study of such a relatively new (in the conceptual-analytical perspective) social phenomenon as rural human capital. In the previous article, we presented a brief overview of such half-forgotten but still relevant theoretical foundations of rural sociology as agricultural economics, th…
Contemporary magical practices
Despite the claims of the contemporary society to progressive scientific rationality, it is difficult not to notice in our everyday life increasingly more manifestations of the “magic” in quite standardized forms, typical for the “consumer society”. The absence of an established sociological tradition for conceptualizing the magic and of the systematized empirical data for the study of its current forms explains the need for the reconstruction of…
Compendium of types of the “typological” in sociology
The article presents an attempt to review the collective monograph Typological Analysis in Sociology as a Diagnostic Procedure (G.G. Tatarova, N.S. Babich, G.P. Bessokirnaya, A.V. Kuchenkova; ed. by G.G. Tatarova, A.V. Kuchenkova. Moscow: FCTAS RAS, 2023, 358 p.), which summarizes many years of searches and findings of G.G. Tatarova with her students and colleagues in the subject field of typological analysis as a sociological method, meta-method…
Contemporary magical practices
The article continues the description of the state and development of the magical in the contemporary secular society. The absence of an established sociological tradition of conceptual understanding and empirical study of the magical explains the division of the text into two parts. The fi part presents a reconstruction of the stages of the “magical renaissance” as a stable social-cultural phenomenon in contemporary history and identifi the most…
The new Federal State Educational Standard and sociological imagination
The article presents some thoughts about the reasons for the current extreme concern of the Russian professional sociological community about the model of training proposed by the Federal State Educational Standard of the fourth generation. In the first part of the article, the author briefly summarizes general problems of higher education, which are typical not only for the Russian university system but also, to one degree or another, for most n…
T. Parsons’ “Societal Community” in G. Sciortino’s Theoretical-empirical Interpretation
Talcott Parsons’ structural functionalism is an obligatory structural element of works on the history and theory of sociology. On the one hand, such works postulate and explain his contribution to the development of the macro-sociological theorizing within the “paradigm of social facts” founded by Émile Durkheim (concepts of social fact, social institution, mechanical and organic social solidarity, objective scientific method, etc.). On the other…
A Few Methodological Notes Based on the Field Observations of Rural Human Capital in the Russia's Non-Black Earth Region
The article presents some methodological considerations on the possibilities and limitations of the qualitative approach (repeated case studies in the specific Rus sian region) for the sociological assessment of human capital. In the first part of the arti cle, the author considers the Russian tradition of rural studies as combining two analyti cal 'optics' - sociological/ethnographic observations of local realities based on various combinations …
A Few Words About (Un)certainty and Its Management in the Rural Part of the Contemporary Uncertain World
On the benefits of mythologies for sociological imagination
The article is a sociological review-reflection on the non-sociological book by P.A. Sapronov Mythology of Secular Culture (Saint Petersburg: Publishing House “Petropolis”, 2023. 380 pp.) and aims at proving the usefulness of ex-disciplinary reading for understanding one’s subject field. From the title of the book, it is obvious that it is interesting for the sociological reader for at least two reasons. First, secularization is clearly a sociolo…
Rural human capital in the conceptual optics
In explanatory dictionaries, “post” is interpreted either as a prefix that has the same meaning as the word “after” (the most obvious and well-known examples from the social sphere are post-imperialist or post-colonial (world), post-Soviet (period), post-socialist (countries), etc.), or as the first part of compound words, denoting what exists/happens based on the second part of the word (post-impressionism, postmodernism, post-industrial, etc.) …
Two and a half undeservedly forgotten conceptual foundations of rural sociology
Although Russian society is strongly connected with the countryside and has deep ‘rural roots’, agrarian issues have always been somewhat marginal in the national scientific tradition, mainly in its social-scientific branch. Today the situation seems to change due to at least two globally urgent issues - sustainable food-security patterns (agricultural production) and rural social/human capital - which increase both theoretical and practical inte…
Russians’ ideas of heroes and heroism
Despite an extensive list of the well-described aspects of heroism, this phenomenon is still understudied in sociology. Most of the projects and publications focus on identifying ‘heroes’ in public opinion or media discourse rather than on explaining why communities/societies ‘appoint’ some people heroes, and what is the conventional meaning of the word ‘hero’. Society has always paid close attention to the so-called ‘outstanding personalities’: …
The Other Kind of Utopia, Or How Social Justice Is Possible in the World of Those Loving One’s Non-Neighbor
Martha Nussbaum is a famous American philosopher and an incredibly prolific author who published more than twenty books and five hundred articles on a wide range of issues of “good living” — from the fragility of goodness and poetic justice, love of country and cultivating humanity to the intelligence of emotions and the new religious intolerance (and this is not an exhaustive list). Unfortunately, only two books have been translated into Russian…
Eschatological Conspiracy Theories
Book review: Shnirelman V. A a. (2022). Katechon. From Apocalypse to Conspiracy Theories, Moscow; Saint Petersb urg: Nestor–History, 424 p
Agroholding - Great and Terrible
Russia's Ways to Ensure Food Security (Control Food Prices) in 2020-2022, and Their Impact on Consumers
This year confirmed an ambiguous situation with food security in Russia. On the one hand, the government insists on the achieved sustainable food self-sufficiency/sovereignty: "Russia is self-sufficient in all basic types of food", "the level of food security in Russia is one of the most reliable in the world", "the Eurasian Economic Union has reached a level of self-sufficiency in most food products (grain, vegetable oils, pork, lamb, sugar, egg…
Utopias of Alexander Bogdanov and Alexander Chayanov
A science-based conversation about the current state of rural areas, prospects for rural human capital and trends in rural differentiation is impossible without the conceptual approaches and futuristic projects of great Russian agrarian scientists.The article presents an attempt of comparing such ideas of two outstanding social thinkers of the early 20th century -Alexander Bogdanov and Alexander Chayanov, focusing on their utopias as representing…
‘Core’ and ‘periphery’ of the concepts ‘happiness’ and ‘justice’
The article continues a series of publications based on the results of a long-term research project of the Sociology Chair of the RUDN University, which combines research and methodological study of the self-identification of Russian students in terms of happiness. At the current stage, two new ‘dimensions’ were added to the project: first, the contextualization of questions about happiness by the concept and elements of social justice (as its ‘e…
Unfair justice, or how social activism destroys the ideas of equality and ‘good society’
The article is a review of the book by Douglas Murray The Madness of Crowds (translated from English by N.A. Lomteva; Moscow: RIPOL classic, 2021. 480 p.). Although this does not follow from the title (as in the book by H. Pluckrose and J. Lindsay on the same topic and with the same estimates Cynical Theories. How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Genders, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody ), the book focuses on the idea …
Humanitarian Populism
Review of: Ely C. (2022) Russian Populism: A History, Bloomsbury Publishing. 254 p. Citation: Nikulin A., Trotsuk I. (2022)
Gender inequality in Russia’s rural informal economy
This article analyzes gender inequality in Russia’s rural informal economy. Continuation of unequal gendered roles in Russia’s rural informal economy suggests that tradition and custom remain strong. Gender differentials in time spent tending the household garden remain significant, as is the distribution of household tasks into gendered roles in ways that effect professional advancement for women. Land ownership is the domain of men, and women a…
The Russian Variant of Food Security
Russia’s political leaders have a different understanding of food security than traditional usage. The traditional usage of the term food security refers to access, availability, and nutritional aspects of food. According to the conventional application of food security, the vast majority of the Russian population is not food insecure by traditional measures. The Russian variant of food security connects food trade to national security. The Russi…
The importance of strong regional leadership in Russia
Belgorod oblast is a highly successful region in Russia. The economic successes in Belgorod stem from the dynamic leadership is provided by Yevgeny Savchenko for the past 24 years. Savchenko supports agroholdings and industrial agriculture, while also adopting policies that foster the growth of small-forms of farming and organic farming. Savchenko’s agrarian policies have led to the so-called Belgorod Miracle. The Belgorod experience shows that d…
Cooperation in Rural Russia
Alexander Sobolev – Doctor of Science in Economics, Professor, Russian University of Cooperation. Address: 12/30, V.Voloshina St., Mytishchi, Moscow Region, 141014, Russian Federation. E-mail: [email protected] Alexander Kurakin – Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Econ…
Pitirim Sorokin’s contribution to rural sociology
The whole of Pitirim Sorokin’s fascinating and difficult scientific life led to his fundamental works on urban–rural relationships being expressed in the terms ‘rural–urban continuum’ and ‘rurbanism’. However, only a few special studies have been devoted to different aspects of his biography and scientific interests. The legacy of Sorokin as a rural sociologist has not yet become a subject of special studies in Russian social science. This contri…
Utopian visions of contemporary rural-urban Russia
Rural Russia is undergoing changes in its agrarian economy and in its social and economic structure more generally in ways that differ greatly across the country’s numerous regions. This is due to both internal transformations of the last decades of post-Soviet transition and external causes related to processes of globalisation. The most visible of these changes is the growing concentration of large-scale agribusiness landholdings. This concentr…
Russia’s tilt to Asia and implications for agriculture in the Far East
As part of Russia’s strategic tilt to Asia, Russian policymakers hope to increase food exports to the Asia-Pacific region. This article analyzes prospects for increasing Russia’s penetration of Asian food markets by surveying initiatives to increase local food production in the Far East and efforts to attract investment into agriculture. Obstacles to increased market penetration are examined, including contradictory policy goals.Keywords: Russian…
Discursive Construction of Social Reality
Review: Van Dijk T. A. (2014) Diskurs i vlast': reprezentacija dominirovanija v jazyke i kommunikacii [Discourse and Power: Representation of Domination in Language and Communication] (in Russian), Moscow: Librokom, 344 p. ISBN 978-5-397-04375-5
The Problem of Violence in Russian Society
“In the vast spaces of the Great Russia there is all that is necessary for life... — meadows and territories are large, different minerals are countless”
Review of Prostranstvennyj potencial v strategii social'no-jekonomicheskogo razvitija Rossii [The Spatial Potential in the Strategy of Russia’s Socio-economic Development] (Moscow: Institute of Economics of RAS, 2011)
Discursive Construction of Social Reality
Review: Van Dijk T. A. (2014) Diskurs i vlast': reprezentacija dominirovanija v jazyke i kommunikacii [Discourse and Power: Representation of Domination in Language and Communication] (in Russian), Moscow: Librokom, 344 p. ISBN 978-5-397-04375-5
Marginality” of Textual Analysis
The second half of the twentieth century was marked by a wave of the so-called “turns” - “linguistic turn”, “narrative turn”, “biographical turn” and “visual turn”, which have led to an obvious shift in research interests and methodological choices in humanities and social sciences. The researchers from various disciplinary fields have admitted that, to understand the logic of different forms of knowledge, we have to examine their “textual” (narr…
Limits of the National Surveys Predictive Capabilities, or, The Future of America
Taylor p. (2014) The Next America: Boomers, Millennials and the Looming Generational Showdown, New York: Public Affairs, 288 p. ISBN 9781610393508
The Narrativity of the Visual; or, On the Uses of Non-sociological Reading
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Gender inequality in Russia's rural formal economy
Gender inequality in Russia's rural formal economy is examined using quantitative and qualitative data. Rural women continue to be underrepresented in farm managerial positions, and gendered income differences remain the norm. Rural women are underrepresented because they continue to have responsibility for most of the housework and child care. The traditional division of labor inside the household continues to dominate, thereby affecting women's…
Instead of a Review; or, What, and Thanks to Whom, Do We Know About a Man at War
This article was initially intended to be a review of War, a book by Arkady Babchenko published in 2015, but turned out to be more of an essay. On one hand, the purpose in publishing a book in 2015 about the two Chechen military campaigns may be questioned especially since Babchenko had previously published numerous texts about his recent experiences as a war journalist. On the other hand, War is full of sociological issues, which eliminates any …
When Methodology Beats Techniques; or, Why We Prefer Discourse and Narrative Analysis to Interpret Textual Data
Recently, textual analysis has become quite popular in social sciences in general, and in sociological studies in particular, partly due to the “narrative turn” that emphasizes the textual nature of all social practices and legitimizes their explanations through discourses that constitute social reality and identification models in contemporary society. Though content analysis has long ago proved its methodological and technical relevance to solv…
Еo remember or to forget
Помнить или забыть: значение выбора для прошлого и настоящего [Рец. на кн.] Ассман А. Длинная тень прошлого: Мемориальная культура и историческая политика / Пер. с нем. Б. Хлебникова. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2014
Russia’s tilt to Asia and implications for agriculture in the Far East
As part of Russia’s strategic tilt to Asia, Russian policymakers hope to increase food exports to the Asia-Pacific region. This article analyzes prospects for increasing Russia’s penetration of Asian food markets by surveying initiatives to increase local food production in the Far East and efforts to attract investment into agriculture. Obstacles to increased market penetration are examined, including contradictory policy goals.Keywords: Russian…
The Russian Variant of Food Security
Russia’s political leaders have a different understanding of food security than traditional usage. The traditional usage of the term food security refers to access, availability, and nutritional aspects of food. According to the conventional application of food security, the vast majority of the Russian population is not food insecure by traditional measures. The Russian variant of food security connects food trade to national security. The Russi…
Utopian visions of contemporary rural-urban Russia
Rural Russia is undergoing changes in its agrarian economy and in its social and economic structure more generally in ways that differ greatly across the country’s numerous regions. This is due to both internal transformations of the last decades of post-Soviet transition and external causes related to processes of globalisation. The most visible of these changes is the growing concentration of large-scale agribusiness landholdings. This concentr…
Political economy of agrarian change
Some Features of an Inspiring Book; or
Book Review: Eva Illouz. Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation (Cambridge: Polity, 2016)
The importance of strong regional leadership in Russia
Belgorod oblast is a highly successful region in Russia. The economic successes in Belgorod stem from the dynamic leadership is provided by Yevgeny Savchenko for the past 24 years. Savchenko supports agroholdings and industrial agriculture, while also adopting policies that foster the growth of small-forms of farming and organic farming. Savchenko’s agrarian policies have led to the so-called Belgorod Miracle. The Belgorod experience shows that d…
Gender inequality in Russia’s rural informal economy
This article analyzes gender inequality in Russia’s rural informal economy. Continuation of unequal gendered roles in Russia’s rural informal economy suggests that tradition and custom remain strong. Gender differentials in time spent tending the household garden remain significant, as is the distribution of household tasks into gendered roles in ways that effect professional advancement for women. Land ownership is the domain of men, and women a…
The search for a better world must be based on a thorough knowledge of geography”
A Guide to the Post-Soviet Agrarian Reform in Russia
Evaluation or Action? The Only Choice for Agrarian Studies
"Natural Altruism" or Forced Rationality? Proper, Expected and Real Behavior in (In)formal Economy
Methodological approaches to the study of Russian cooperation and "Theory and practice of cooperation" as an academic discipline
The article focuses on the theoretical and methodological problems encountered by the Russian scholars of cooperative organizations. The authors identify four basic methodological approaches to the cooperation phenomenon in the Russian academic tradition: (1) socio-reformist (or socio-ideological), (2) descriptive-monographic, and (3) economic-theoretical, with the first two being dominant. After a short discussion of the prospects and limitation…
Russia, Poland, and China
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Вопросы Коллективного Земледелия В Исследованиях Школы а.в. Чаянова (1913-1933), "Социологические Исследования"
Интеллектуальное наследие школы А.В. Чаянова принято связывать с исследованиями крестьянского хозяйства и его кооперативного развития. Работы организационно-производственной школы Чаянова многогранны. В них можно обнаружить оригинальные теоретические и эмпирические исследования коллективного и крупного аграрного производства, связанного со становлением колхозного строя. В серии исследований представителей данной школы – о социальной рентабельност…
Cooperation in Rural Russia
Alexander Sobolev – Doctor of Science in Economics, Professor, Russian University of Cooperation. Address: 12/30, V.Voloshina St., Mytishchi, Moscow Region, 141014, Russian Federation. E-mail: [email protected] Alexander Kurakin – Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Econ…
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