International Not Only in Name
The International Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (LCSR) was established in 2010 in the first wave of a competition for government mega-grants to attract major academics from abroad to Russian universities. The famous American sociologist and political scientist Ronald Inglehart, Founding President of the World Values Survey and professor at the University of Michigan, became the laboratory’s first Academic Supervisor.
HSE Professor Christopher Swader Discusses His New Book
Christopher S. Swader is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Sociology and a Senior Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research at the HSE in Moscow. He also serves as Program Director for the new International Master’s Program in Comparative Social Research. Professor Swader sat down with HSE News Portal Editor Marina Selina to discuss his recently published book — The Capitalist Personality: Face-to-Face Sociality and Economic Change in the Post-Communist World.
The International Master’s Programme in Comparative Social Research
The HSE Faculty of Sociology and the Laboratory of Comparative Social Research are delighted to announce the opening of the International Master’s Programme in Comparative Social Research, which is geared toward ambitious students wanting to build careers as sociologists in academia and research institutions.
Deadline for abstract submission - November 15