Boris Sokolov
Biographic Data
| ID | 243222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boris Sokolov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boris |
| FAMILY NAME | Sokolov |
| SIGNATURE | SOKOLOV B |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5151-8147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Is Societal Progress Muting the Expressivity of Negative Emotions? Evidence from Two Cross-national Studies
Contemporary theories of emotion emphasize the dual role of emotions as both personal experiences and communicative signals during social interactions. However, the impact of macro-level societal structures on emotional expression remains underexplored. This study investigates the expression-experience discrepancy for self-reported emotions across nations, focusing on how societal development relates to this discrepancy, which captures expressivi…
Mind the Gap: Perceived Economic Inequality and the Well-Being Gap around the Globe
The link between economic inequality and individual well-being has been gaining increasing research attention. This study examines this relationship using data from 71 countries with diverse national incomes, addressing three key research gaps: (1) incorporating measures of both perceived and objective economic inequality, (2) extending analysis to multiple components of well-being beyond happiness, including meaning in life, harmony, and spiritu…
Shifts in emancipative values during times of crises: Longitudinal evidence from the Covid ‐19 pandemic in Russia
Alongside collectivism–individualism, autonomy–embeddedness, and monumentalism–flexibility, emancipative values (EV) constitute one of the most powerful cultural markers of societal differences in economic development, demographic change, and levels of liberal democracy. However, the evolutionary emancipation theory's validity relies on the assumption that values crystallize in early adolescence and persist across the lifespan—a premise lacking r…
Wellbeing Dynamics Across Cultures During the Pandemic: A Five‐Country Exploration
Wellbeing levels have been a global concern during the COVID‐19 pandemic, but there is a lack of attention to invariance questions that allow a robust examination of wellbeing dynamics across cultures. Questions of temporal stability that are crucial for examining the impact of the pandemic on wellbeing have received even less attention. Some studies suggested that measures may not be stable after the onset of the pandemic. We examine invariance …
Demographic Attributes and Attitudes of Covid-19-skeptics in Russia
Individualism–Collectivism Differences Across 60 Russian Regions
This paper explores the cultural differences between Russian regions operationalized in terms of Minkov’s recent revision of Hofstede’s famous individualism — collectivism dimension (I-C). Using a large survey (N = 18,768) conducted in 2019-2020 and spanning 60 regions, we construct a cultural map of the Russian Federation illustrating withincountry variation in I-C. Our measure of I-C is based on respondents’ attitudes toward reproductive freedo…
Online Surveys in Nondemocratic Contexts: Evidence from Russia
How do non-probability online surveys perform in nondemocratic contexts? To address this question, we compared the data from two web surveys (WSs), conducted in Russia in 2018 and 2020, using opt-in panels, to the offline data from wave 7 of the World Values Survey (fieldwork in Russia 2017), round 7 of the Russian Social Survey (fieldwork in Russia 2018–2019), and the 2010 Russian Census data. We found that (a) WSs under-covered older, less educ…
Love beyond east and west: How cultural models of selfhood predict frequency of being in love
Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between being in love and subjective well-being
Love, culture, and well-being: How values moderate the link between relationship status and well-being across 57 countries
“Can forms speak from the spiritual world?” Rudolf Steiner’s Goetheanum and the Search for New Artistic Forms in the Early 20th Century
This article presents an examination of the architectural theory and practice of Rudolf Steiner. This concept is exemplified by two buildings of the Goetheanum and the architectural style of the Anthroposophical community in the Swiss village of Dornach. Steiner’s architectural theory was predicated on the spiritualization of forms, as he himself put it, on what he termed the “enchanted” (hinzaubert) wall. In this regard, the construction of the …
Environmental Attitudes and Emancipative Values: Evidence from the European Values Study
The focus of this article is on how social modernization, specifically the process of a gradual spread of emancipatory, or post-materialistic, value orientations, affects environmental attitudes in a comparative perspective. Based on the evolutionary theory of modernization developed by R. Inglehart and C. Welzel, we propose a sociological model of the formation of environmental attitudes that combines both micro- and macro-level perspectives and…
Is “regional culture” a meaningful concept? Cultural differences across 60 Russian regions
Purpose There is an increasing interest in the international management literature in cultural differences between in-country regions. Yet, the regions of any country may be merely political products and not necessarily cultural units. The goal of this article is to propose clear empirical criteria for deciding if a set of entities, such as a country's administrative regions, can be legitimate units of cross-cultural analysis and to test these cr…
Evolution of the Hofstede Model of Cultural Dimensions: Parallels Between Objective and Subjective Culture
Some 40 years ago, the Dutch social scientist Geert Hofstede laid the foundations of the science of modern cultural comparisons and created the most popular model of national culture that is still in use today across the world. Meanwhile, numerous issues with that model have been identified and the need for a thorough revision has become obvious. This article briefly explains Hofstede’s model and its issues and summarizes the existing revisions o…
Support for Emancipative Values in Russia during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In this article we analyze nationwide and individual trends in emancipative values in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the correlation between values and various personal COVID-19 pandemic experiences. Using panel data from 3 waves of a survey titled “Values in Crisis” we were able to identify a minor increase in support for choice values and an equally minor decrease in support for equality values between June 2020 and December 20…
Индивидуальный опыт первой волны пандемии Covid-19 и политическая поддержка в России (по материалам опроса “Ценности в кризисе”)
В статье исследуется, как индивидуальный опыт первой волны пандемии COVID-19 повлиял на отношение россиян к политической системе. Для этого используются данные онлайн-опроса, проведенного в июне 2020 г. в рамках международного проекта “Ценности в кризисе”. Размер выборки составил 1 527 респондентов. Выборка точно воспроизводит половозрастную структуру населения согласно материалам переписи 2010 г., но в ней недостаточно представлены люди с низким…
A Transposition of the Minkov-Hofstede Model of Culture to the Individual Level of Analysis: Evidence from Mongolia
After Hofstede proposed individualism-collectivism (IDV-COLL) as a dimension of national culture, numerous studies have used that name to refer to individual-level psychological constructs, based on theories and empirical operationalizations that are not necessarily compatible with the Hofstede tradition. This has created confusion. In this study, we investigate whether the two revised Minkov-Hofstede dimensions of national culture - IDV-COLL and…
Measurement Invariance of Liberal and Authoritarian Notions of Democracy: Evidence From the World Values Survey and Additional Methodological Considerations
This article offers a gentle introduction to the measurement invariance (MI) literature with a focus on its relevance to comparative political research. It reviews 1) the conceptual foundations of MI; 2) standard procedures of testing for MI in practical applications within the multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) paradigm; and 3) two novel approaches to MI, Bayesian approximate measurement invariance, and MGCFA alignment optimizat…
The Index of Emancipative Values: Measurement Model Misspecifications
This article reports evidence of misspecification of the measurement model for the index of emancipative values, a value construct used as a key explanatory variable in many important contributions to political science. It shows that the scale on which the index is measured is noninvariant across cultural zones and countries in the World Values Survey. In addition, it demonstrates that the current index composition mixes different value dimension…
Disillusionment and Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Pro-American to Anti-American Attitudes, 1993–2009
In the early 1990s, the Russian public held overwhelmingly favorable attitudes toward the United States; in recent years, attitudes toward the United States have been overwhelmingly unfavorable. Analysts often trace this dramatic change to (1) the emergence of Russian-American conflicts such as those in former Yugoslavia and (2) Russian leaders' attempts to escape blame for their country's failures by attributing them to a powerful external enemy…
Trial by Fire: A Natural Disaster's Impact on Support for the Authorities in Rural Russia
This article aims to explore the microfoundations of political support under a nondemocratic regime by investigating the impact of a natural disaster on attitudes toward the government. The research exploits the enormous wildfires that occurred in rural Russia during the summer of 2010 as a natural experiment. The authors test the effects of fires with a survey of almost eight hundred respondents in seventy randomly selected villages. The study f…
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The Tragedy of Child Life Under Bolshevism
Essay| July 01 1921 The Tragedy of Child Life Under Bolshevism Boris Sokolov* Boris Sokolov* *Dr. Sokolov is a leading member of the Socialist-Revolutionist Party, and was a delegate to the first All-Russian Constituent Assembly. Bike most of those delegates, he is now an exile from Russia. His article was written for the Volia Rossii, the organ of the Russian Constituent group, published in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and appeared in the issue of Fe…
Trial by Fire: A Natural Disaster's Impact on Support for the Authorities in Rural Russia
This article aims to explore the microfoundations of political support under a nondemocratic regime by investigating the impact of a natural disaster on attitudes toward the government. The research exploits the enormous wildfires that occurred in rural Russia during the summer of 2010 as a natural experiment. The authors test the effects of fires with a survey of almost eight hundred respondents in seventy randomly selected villages. The study f…
The Index of Emancipative Values: Measurement Model Misspecifications
This article reports evidence of misspecification of the measurement model for the index of emancipative values, a value construct used as a key explanatory variable in many important contributions to political science. It shows that the scale on which the index is measured is noninvariant across cultural zones and countries in the World Values Survey. In addition, it demonstrates that the current index composition mixes different value dimension…
Disillusionment and Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Pro-American to Anti-American Attitudes, 1993–2009
In the early 1990s, the Russian public held overwhelmingly favorable attitudes toward the United States; in recent years, attitudes toward the United States have been overwhelmingly unfavorable. Analysts often trace this dramatic change to (1) the emergence of Russian-American conflicts such as those in former Yugoslavia and (2) Russian leaders' attempts to escape blame for their country's failures by attributing them to a powerful external enemy…
A Transposition of the Minkov-Hofstede Model of Culture to the Individual Level of Analysis: Evidence from Mongolia
After Hofstede proposed individualism-collectivism (IDV-COLL) as a dimension of national culture, numerous studies have used that name to refer to individual-level psychological constructs, based on theories and empirical operationalizations that are not necessarily compatible with the Hofstede tradition. This has created confusion. In this study, we investigate whether the two revised Minkov-Hofstede dimensions of national culture - IDV-COLL and…
Online Surveys in Nondemocratic Contexts: Evidence from Russia
How do non-probability online surveys perform in nondemocratic contexts? To address this question, we compared the data from two web surveys (WSs), conducted in Russia in 2018 and 2020, using opt-in panels, to the offline data from wave 7 of the World Values Survey (fieldwork in Russia 2017), round 7 of the Russian Social Survey (fieldwork in Russia 2018–2019), and the 2010 Russian Census data. We found that (a) WSs under-covered older, less educ…
Is “regional culture” a meaningful concept? Cultural differences across 60 Russian regions
Purpose There is an increasing interest in the international management literature in cultural differences between in-country regions. Yet, the regions of any country may be merely political products and not necessarily cultural units. The goal of this article is to propose clear empirical criteria for deciding if a set of entities, such as a country's administrative regions, can be legitimate units of cross-cultural analysis and to test these cr…
Love beyond east and west: How cultural models of selfhood predict frequency of being in love
Environmental Attitudes and Emancipative Values: Evidence from the European Values Study
The focus of this article is on how social modernization, specifically the process of a gradual spread of emancipatory, or post-materialistic, value orientations, affects environmental attitudes in a comparative perspective. Based on the evolutionary theory of modernization developed by R. Inglehart and C. Welzel, we propose a sociological model of the formation of environmental attitudes that combines both micro- and macro-level perspectives and…
Evolution of the Hofstede Model of Cultural Dimensions: Parallels Between Objective and Subjective Culture
Some 40 years ago, the Dutch social scientist Geert Hofstede laid the foundations of the science of modern cultural comparisons and created the most popular model of national culture that is still in use today across the world. Meanwhile, numerous issues with that model have been identified and the need for a thorough revision has become obvious. This article briefly explains Hofstede’s model and its issues and summarizes the existing revisions o…
Support for Emancipative Values in Russia during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In this article we analyze nationwide and individual trends in emancipative values in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the correlation between values and various personal COVID-19 pandemic experiences. Using panel data from 3 waves of a survey titled “Values in Crisis” we were able to identify a minor increase in support for choice values and an equally minor decrease in support for equality values between June 2020 and December 20…
Measurement Invariance of Liberal and Authoritarian Notions of Democracy: Evidence From the World Values Survey and Additional Methodological Considerations
This article offers a gentle introduction to the measurement invariance (MI) literature with a focus on its relevance to comparative political research. It reviews 1) the conceptual foundations of MI; 2) standard procedures of testing for MI in practical applications within the multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) paradigm; and 3) two novel approaches to MI, Bayesian approximate measurement invariance, and MGCFA alignment optimizat…
The Tragedy of Child Life Under Bolshevism
Essay| July 01 1921 The Tragedy of Child Life Under Bolshevism Boris Sokolov* Boris Sokolov* *Dr. Sokolov is a leading member of the Socialist-Revolutionist Party, and was a delegate to the first All-Russian Constituent Assembly. Bike most of those delegates, he is now an exile from Russia. His article was written for the Volia Rossii, the organ of the Russian Constituent group, published in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and appeared in the issue of Fe…
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Trial by Fire: A Natural Disaster's Impact on Support for the Authorities in Rural Russia
This article aims to explore the microfoundations of political support under a nondemocratic regime by investigating the impact of a natural disaster on attitudes toward the government. The research exploits the enormous wildfires that occurred in rural Russia during the summer of 2010 as a natural experiment. The authors test the effects of fires with a survey of almost eight hundred respondents in seventy randomly selected villages. The study f…
The Index of Emancipative Values: Measurement Model Misspecifications
This article reports evidence of misspecification of the measurement model for the index of emancipative values, a value construct used as a key explanatory variable in many important contributions to political science. It shows that the scale on which the index is measured is noninvariant across cultural zones and countries in the World Values Survey. In addition, it demonstrates that the current index composition mixes different value dimension…
Disillusionment and Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Pro-American to Anti-American Attitudes, 1993–2009
In the early 1990s, the Russian public held overwhelmingly favorable attitudes toward the United States; in recent years, attitudes toward the United States have been overwhelmingly unfavorable. Analysts often trace this dramatic change to (1) the emergence of Russian-American conflicts such as those in former Yugoslavia and (2) Russian leaders' attempts to escape blame for their country's failures by attributing them to a powerful external enemy…
Measurement Invariance of Liberal and Authoritarian Notions of Democracy: Evidence From the World Values Survey and Additional Methodological Considerations
This article offers a gentle introduction to the measurement invariance (MI) literature with a focus on its relevance to comparative political research. It reviews 1) the conceptual foundations of MI; 2) standard procedures of testing for MI in practical applications within the multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) paradigm; and 3) two novel approaches to MI, Bayesian approximate measurement invariance, and MGCFA alignment optimizat…
Is “regional culture” a meaningful concept? Cultural differences across 60 Russian regions
Purpose There is an increasing interest in the international management literature in cultural differences between in-country regions. Yet, the regions of any country may be merely political products and not necessarily cultural units. The goal of this article is to propose clear empirical criteria for deciding if a set of entities, such as a country's administrative regions, can be legitimate units of cross-cultural analysis and to test these cr…
Evolution of the Hofstede Model of Cultural Dimensions: Parallels Between Objective and Subjective Culture
Some 40 years ago, the Dutch social scientist Geert Hofstede laid the foundations of the science of modern cultural comparisons and created the most popular model of national culture that is still in use today across the world. Meanwhile, numerous issues with that model have been identified and the need for a thorough revision has become obvious. This article briefly explains Hofstede’s model and its issues and summarizes the existing revisions o…
Support for Emancipative Values in Russia during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In this article we analyze nationwide and individual trends in emancipative values in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the correlation between values and various personal COVID-19 pandemic experiences. Using panel data from 3 waves of a survey titled “Values in Crisis” we were able to identify a minor increase in support for choice values and an equally minor decrease in support for equality values between June 2020 and December 20…
Индивидуальный опыт первой волны пандемии Covid-19 и политическая поддержка в России (по материалам опроса “Ценности в кризисе”)
В статье исследуется, как индивидуальный опыт первой волны пандемии COVID-19 повлиял на отношение россиян к политической системе. Для этого используются данные онлайн-опроса, проведенного в июне 2020 г. в рамках международного проекта “Ценности в кризисе”. Размер выборки составил 1 527 респондентов. Выборка точно воспроизводит половозрастную структуру населения согласно материалам переписи 2010 г., но в ней недостаточно представлены люди с низким…
A Transposition of the Minkov-Hofstede Model of Culture to the Individual Level of Analysis: Evidence from Mongolia
After Hofstede proposed individualism-collectivism (IDV-COLL) as a dimension of national culture, numerous studies have used that name to refer to individual-level psychological constructs, based on theories and empirical operationalizations that are not necessarily compatible with the Hofstede tradition. This has created confusion. In this study, we investigate whether the two revised Minkov-Hofstede dimensions of national culture - IDV-COLL and…
“Can forms speak from the spiritual world?” Rudolf Steiner’s Goetheanum and the Search for New Artistic Forms in the Early 20th Century
This article presents an examination of the architectural theory and practice of Rudolf Steiner. This concept is exemplified by two buildings of the Goetheanum and the architectural style of the Anthroposophical community in the Swiss village of Dornach. Steiner’s architectural theory was predicated on the spiritualization of forms, as he himself put it, on what he termed the “enchanted” (hinzaubert) wall. In this regard, the construction of the …
Environmental Attitudes and Emancipative Values: Evidence from the European Values Study
The focus of this article is on how social modernization, specifically the process of a gradual spread of emancipatory, or post-materialistic, value orientations, affects environmental attitudes in a comparative perspective. Based on the evolutionary theory of modernization developed by R. Inglehart and C. Welzel, we propose a sociological model of the formation of environmental attitudes that combines both micro- and macro-level perspectives and…
Wellbeing Dynamics Across Cultures During the Pandemic: A Five‐Country Exploration
Wellbeing levels have been a global concern during the COVID‐19 pandemic, but there is a lack of attention to invariance questions that allow a robust examination of wellbeing dynamics across cultures. Questions of temporal stability that are crucial for examining the impact of the pandemic on wellbeing have received even less attention. Some studies suggested that measures may not be stable after the onset of the pandemic. We examine invariance …
Demographic Attributes and Attitudes of Covid-19-skeptics in Russia
Individualism–Collectivism Differences Across 60 Russian Regions
This paper explores the cultural differences between Russian regions operationalized in terms of Minkov’s recent revision of Hofstede’s famous individualism — collectivism dimension (I-C). Using a large survey (N = 18,768) conducted in 2019-2020 and spanning 60 regions, we construct a cultural map of the Russian Federation illustrating withincountry variation in I-C. Our measure of I-C is based on respondents’ attitudes toward reproductive freedo…
Online Surveys in Nondemocratic Contexts: Evidence from Russia
How do non-probability online surveys perform in nondemocratic contexts? To address this question, we compared the data from two web surveys (WSs), conducted in Russia in 2018 and 2020, using opt-in panels, to the offline data from wave 7 of the World Values Survey (fieldwork in Russia 2017), round 7 of the Russian Social Survey (fieldwork in Russia 2018–2019), and the 2010 Russian Census data. We found that (a) WSs under-covered older, less educ…
Love beyond east and west: How cultural models of selfhood predict frequency of being in love
Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between being in love and subjective well-being
Love, culture, and well-being: How values moderate the link between relationship status and well-being across 57 countries
Is Societal Progress Muting the Expressivity of Negative Emotions? Evidence from Two Cross-national Studies
Contemporary theories of emotion emphasize the dual role of emotions as both personal experiences and communicative signals during social interactions. However, the impact of macro-level societal structures on emotional expression remains underexplored. This study investigates the expression-experience discrepancy for self-reported emotions across nations, focusing on how societal development relates to this discrepancy, which captures expressivi…
Mind the Gap: Perceived Economic Inequality and the Well-Being Gap around the Globe
The link between economic inequality and individual well-being has been gaining increasing research attention. This study examines this relationship using data from 71 countries with diverse national incomes, addressing three key research gaps: (1) incorporating measures of both perceived and objective economic inequality, (2) extending analysis to multiple components of well-being beyond happiness, including meaning in life, harmony, and spiritu…
Shifts in emancipative values during times of crises: Longitudinal evidence from the Covid ‐19 pandemic in Russia
Alongside collectivism–individualism, autonomy–embeddedness, and monumentalism–flexibility, emancipative values (EV) constitute one of the most powerful cultural markers of societal differences in economic development, demographic change, and levels of liberal democracy. However, the evolutionary emancipation theory's validity relies on the assumption that values crystallize in early adolescence and persist across the lifespan—a premise lacking r…
Psychology (13 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (6 works)