Volunteer Work in Russian Society and Russian Sociology

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Bibliographic Data

ID12819223
AuthorsNatalia Khvorostianov (0000-0002-0966-3519, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume23
Issue2
Pages136-152
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1562-2495 • E-ISSN: 1684-1581
PublisherFederal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.19181/socjour.2017.23.2.5162
OpenAlexW2734041066
LanguageEN
Citations received1

The author presents three models of volunteer work (utilizing critical analysis of Russian and foreign research as a basis) which compete for prominence in the Russian public consciousness. These three models — traditional, Soviet and democratic — correspond semantically with three intersecting concepts in the Russian discourse — “charity”, “dobrovolchestvo” (which literally translates to “volunteerism”) and “volunteer work”. They act as independent cultural and ideological concepts and symbolize the more or less probable scenarios of Russian civil society development. However, since the results of recent empirical studies conducted by Russian sociologists lean towards the “Soviet” model, studying the latter has become an important task. Qualitative retrospective empirical studies of Soviet experience which “somewhat resembles volunteering” (millions of Russians are carriers of said experience) can be useful not only when it comes to forming a deeper understanding of modern Russian volunteering, but also when it comes to its development

Civil society · Consciousness · Democracy · Empirical research · Epistemology · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Russian culture · Russian federation · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Law · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia

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