Coming from a low-income, uneducated family can affect a child’s language
skills, resulting in underdeveloped, ungrammatical speech, which hinders academic
performance and limits one’s chances of success in life. However, parents can
help a child offset the effects of a negative family background, according to Kirill
Maslinsky, research fellow at the Laboratory of Sociology in Education and Science,
HSE campus in St. Petersburg.
September 18, 2015
The processes of globalization should have
contributed to reduced inequality in the world. In reality, however, the
situation looks differently, with income inequality in the populations of developing
economies growing. To correct this, the level of education of low-skilled
workers must be increased, said Eric Maskin, Chief Research Fellow at the HSE
International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis and Nobel Laureate in
Economics for 2007.
September 16, 2015
Creating totally new and exclusive products, business models and technology solutions is not always necessary in today's innovative economy; it is often sufficient to use the knowledge and inventions already available worldwide, according to professor Mikhail Shushkin and associate professor Sergey Alexandrovskiy, researchers at the Department of Marketing, Faculty of Management, HSE Branch in Nizhny Novgorod.
September 15, 2015
Children of labour migrants from Central Asia don’t
want to preserve their ethnic
self-definition, i.e. to speak their native language and follow their
cultural traditions. They try to distance themselves from people of their
ethnic identity and become fully locals. Both Russian schools and parents
further this process, concluded Raisa Akifyeva, senior lecturer at the St.
Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities Department of Sociology, as
a result of her research.
September 10, 2015
It is increasingly common for scientists to
engage the general public in dialogue and involve people in research rather
than communicating with them in a haughty or condescending manner. We are
witnessing the hybridization of research institutes: researchers are more
actively collaborating with the media, civil society, and the customers for
research, HSE Associate Professor Roman Abramov and Senior Lecturer at the
Department for the Analysis of Social Institutions Andrei Kozhanov noted in an
article.
September 09, 2015
Encouraging entrepreneurship, providing social support services and
helping people find jobs are all part of a new ‘social contract’ programme
introduced across Russia to assist poor families in becoming financially
self-sufficient. Using formal contracts to encourage low-income people to
engage in economic activity is proving to be more effective than welfare
handouts, according to researchers of the HSE Centre for Studies of Income and
Living Standards.
September 08, 2015
Over the past two decades, the average life expectancy in Russia has increased by 2.3 years for women and 1.4 years for men, according to a recently published paper based on the WHO's Global Burden of Disease (GBD) assessment – a major epidemiological study by a group of international experts, including Vasily Vlassov, Professor of the HSE Department of Health Care Administration and Economy.
September 03, 2015
Parents of school students in Moscow tend to believe that test assignments in two major final exams—the Basic State Exam (BSE) and the Unified State Exam (USE)—are too complex and teachers fail to properly prepare students for the finals; this negative attitude, which appears to be a widely-held stereotype not necessarily supported by evidence, is formed long before the exams come round. However, according to a study by Alina Pishnyak and Natalia Khalina, once the exams are over, families no longer consider them so hard to pass.
August 28, 2015
The opportunity to find an interesting and well-paid job, a comfortable socio-cultural environment, and friendly and professional contacts in the new location are all essential factors for graduates of universities from Russian regions who are planning to move to another city. Saida Ziganurova, Research Assistant at the HSE Center for Institutional Studies, studied the migration potential among young professionals.
August 25, 2015
Many young employees of museums, art centres and galleries, libraries and
publishing houses move up the career ladder fairly fast, yet workplace success
comes at a cost, forcing them to work beyond normal hours and outside formal
job descriptions. Nevertheless, employees of cultural institutions are prepared
to make the extra effort to help their organisations survive, according to
Margarita Kuleva, lecturer at the Department of Sociology, HSE campus in St.
Petersburg.
August 21, 2015
By choosing education for their children, parents tend to perpetuate
social inequalities. While educated middle-class parents invest in their
children's future by selecting the best possible school and becoming actively
involved in the educational process, working-class families often feel they
cannot afford to choose and instead, send children to the nearest school,
expecting them to make it on their own, according to Larisa Shpakovskaya,
Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, HSE Campus in St.
Petersburg.
August 18, 2015
Overall, Russians tend to be satisfied with their country's health care
system, particularly when they do not need to deal with it; however, those with
recent first-hand experience of healthcare often complain about the lack of
professionalism and the decline in free medical services, according to Sergey
Shishkin, Head of HSE's Department of Health Care Administration and Economy,
and Natalia Kochkina and Marina Krasilnikova, sociologists with the Levada
Centre, in their paper Health Care
Service Availability and Quality as Assessed by the Russian Public.
August 12, 2015