In today’s consumer society, the wine has gone from being the staple diet to become one of the signs that show the status of the subject, as a demonstration of high rank and taste, aspirations, status, lifestyle, in which having fun, the pleasure, is the fruit of knowledge. It’s a hobby, a...

This paper explores the relationships between values in the religious domain and values in other societal spheres. Starting from the general idea that the impact of religion on other domains in life has decreased, we assume 1) a differential impact of religion on the private and public domains;...

In de theorie van o.a. Parsons en M|nch wordt een typologie van waarden-patronen gepresenteerd op basis van de combinaties van twee dimensies, te weten: vrijheid versus gebondenheid, en gelijkheid versus ongelijkheid. Deze typologie van waarden betreft een indeling over maatschappijbeelden,...

Радикальные социально-экономические реформы в постсоветской России дают богатый фактический материал для исследований институциональных изменений....

Leadership is a matter that social scientists often are ambivalent about, but is important in knife-edge' situations and when people choose direction within wide-open possibilities. "Good leaders" need contexts that stimulate and discipline them, good "followers"/ collaborators, and ability to...

Social values/belief systems can be viewed as a stock of non-productive ideas that are collectively shared in a non-rivalrous way and evolve through experience/participation at the aggregate social level. While they are separate from the stock of scientific ideas that are essential to...

This is a review of modern Western publications on skill-oriented education. The relevance of the topic is due to the ongoing development of the Russian education model, and of the new generation of standards for the secondary school.