Sociology (Books in English)

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The book presents the results of the research in the field of speech formation in relation to the practice of FLT (Foreign Language Teaching) in Russia.

Special attention has been paid to the new problems in linguistics and teaching methods which have arisen in a new Russia --- when the era of international... (More)

The monograph presents a coherent account of the major technological changes starting from the emergence of Homo sapiens until present and outlines the prospects of technological development in the next 30-60 years.

What determines a society's transition from one level of development to another? One... (More)

The almanac is helpful for those who study interdisciplinary macroproblems as well as for specialists working within specific trends, and also for those who to a greater or lesser extent are interested in the evolutionary problems of astrophysics, geology, biology, history, anthropology, linguistics;... (More)

The times of “Pure History” when historians were only interested in the deeds of kings and heroes passed long ago. A more and more important role is played by new directions in historical research that study long-term dynamic processes and quantitative changes. This kind of history can hardly develop... (More)

This almanac initiates a series of edited volumes dedicated to various aspects of the application of mathematical methods to the study of history and society. It comprises articles that apply mathematical methods to the study of various epochs and scales: from deep historical reconstruction to the pressing... (More)

Human society is a complex nonequilibrium system that changes and develops constantly. Complexity, multivariability, and contradictions of social evolution lead researchers to a logical conclusion that any simplification, reduction, or neglect of the multiplicity of factors leads inevitably to the multiplication... (More)

Human society is a complex nonequilibrium system that changes and develops constantly. Complexity, multivariability, and contradictions of social evolution lead researchers to a logical conclusion that any simplification, reduction, or neglect of the multiplicity of factors leads inevitably to the multiplication... (More)

Human society is a complex nonequilibrium system that changes and develops constantly. Complexity, multivariability, and contradictoriness of social evolution lead researchers to a logical conclusion that any simplification, reduction, or neglect of the multiplicity of factors leads inevitably to the... (More)

What are the problems and dilemmas that confront man in the age of science? Will he be able to control the rapid course of scientific and technological progress or will he become a victim of scientistic manipulations? How does science relate to humanistic principles.

The author examines the problems... (More)

Until quite recently, cultural evolution has commonly been regarded as the permanent teleological move to a greater level of hierarchy, crowned by state formation. However, recent research, particularly those based upon the principle of heterarchy --- л...the relation of elements to one another when... (More)

Issues of formation and evolution of the early (archaic) state continue to remain among those problems which have not found their generally accepted solutions yet. Contributors to The Early State , Its Alternatives and Analogues represent both traditional and non-traditional points of view on the evolution... (More)

This book is devoted to a comprehensive study of radical mass forms of social protest, as an independent phenomenon with its own laws, and technologies for managing this phenomenon in the political struggle. This phenomenon is formed by a whole range of types of social protest and confrontation in society:... (More)

The human history has evidenced various systems of hierarchy and power in different spheres of social life. The relations of hierarchy and power penetrate the whole of social life but naturally they are most visible in the political sphere. The careful study of each particular case of such relations... (More)

The human history has evidenced various systems of hierarchy and power in different spheres of social life. The relations of hierarchy and power are relevant for every sphere as they penetrate the whole life of a society and represent a sort of framework for an individual's activity. The cultural sphere... (More)

The human history has evidenced various systems of hierarchy and power in different spheres of social life. The relations of hierarchy and power penetrate the whole of social life but naturally they are most visible in the political sphere. The careful study of each particular case of such relations... (More)

In this book, for the first time in world scientific literature, the category of “force” is presented as an attribute of matter alongside motion, space, and time. This enabled the author to develop a different approach to solving the problem of the Big Bang, give a new formulation of the border between... (More)

The problems of love, family and state are topics that are widely discussed both in the West and in Russia. This essay, however, differs from all previous research work in that Alex Battler elevated the well-known words “love,” “family” and “marriage” to the level of concepts. This enabled the author... (More)

In the monograph based on the principles of mesoeconomics, institutional theory, game theory, and theory of active systems, an approach is developed to explore the impact of a mesoeconomic system structure on this system agents’ performance.

The general patterns of the agents’ competition in hierarchical... (More)

This issue of the almanac aims at filling the gap in the mega-evolutionary research. The Editors believe that the present Almanac, which brings together scientists working in different areas of the vast evolutionary field, will hopefully make a contribution to this process.The contributions to this volume... (More)

The Proceedings of Institute for Systems Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences (ISA RAS) presents some new theoretical results in the fields of macrosystem analysis, mathematical modeling, deterministic and stochastic dynamics, numerical methods, optimization and games.

This scientific journal also... (More)

The Proceeding of ISA RAS presents some new theoretical results in the fields of macrosystem analysis, mathematical modelling, deterministic and stochastic dynamics, numerical methods, optimization and games.

The book also contains articles dedicated to the solution of some applied problems in economic,... (More)

The Proceeding of ISA RAS presents some new theoretical results in the fields of macrosystem analysis, mathematical modelling, deterministic and stochastic dynamics, numerical methods, optimization, and games.

The book also contains articles dedicated to the solution of some applied problems in economic,... (More)

The Proceeding of ISA RAS presents some new theoretical results in the fields of macrosystem analysis, mathematical modelling, deterministic and stochastic dynamics, numerical methods, optimization, and games. The book also contains articles dedicated to the solution of some applied problems in economic,... (More)