Gordey Yastrebov - Candidate of Sciences in Sociology, Senior Research Fellow, Laboratory for Comparative Analysis of Post-Socialist Development, National Research University-Higher School of Economics; Doctoral Student, European University Institute (Florence, Italy). E-mail:...

Tatyana Abankina, Ph.D. in Economics, Director of the Center for Applied Economic Research, National Research University -Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: abankinat@hse.ru Anna Krasilova, Ph.D. in Economics, senior researcher at the Laboratory for Comparative...

The authors discuss a conceptual framework of educational results contextualization, that is of account taken when formulating education policy of the fact of differentiating schools according to pupils social and economic characteristics, as well as according to the schools physical and human...

The article focuses on the problem of identifying real social groups in the contemporary Russian society. The data from all-Russian monitoring surveys are used to compare two social structure models obtained by alternative methods. One of the models is similar to that of the European...