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Civil Society, Social Change, and a New Popular Education in Russia - From Comrades to Citizens

English · Hardback

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This book explores social change and changes to civil society in Russia, focusing especially on education.


List of contents

List of figures
List of tables
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Introduction


  1. Civil society, social change and a new popular education.

  2. Values in Russian education.

  3. Educational strategies of the affluent and of the poor.

  4. The social and personal benefits of literacy and learning.

  5. Professional education, training, and privatization.

  6. Youth at risk: Do sport and physical recreation help?

  7. Social capital and the survival of rural Russia.

  8. Religion, the state and civil society.

  9. Migration, ethnicity, and Russian nationhood.
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

W. John Morgan is professor emeritus, University of Nottingham; honorary professor, School of Social Sciences, and Leverhulme emeritus fellow, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data, and Methods, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom. He is also D.Sc. (hc), Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Irina N. Trofimova is senior research fellow and Dr. Sci. (Politics), Centre for the Sociology of Education, Science and Culture, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Grigori A. Kliucharev, is professor and Dr. Sc. (Philosophy), and head of the Centre for the Sociology of Education, Science and Culture, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. He is also editor in chief of the journal Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniia (Sociological Studies).

Summary

This book explores social change and changes to civil society in Russia, focusing especially on education.

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