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The All-Russian Conference IV Novosibirsk Scientific Readings in Memory of Academician T.I. Zaslavskaya “Time of Change: Individual and Group Choice in Response to New Challenges” was held on October 17-19. The event was organized by Novosibirsk State University and the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The readings were held in the form of a series of six thematic round tables, the program of which was formed on the basis of participants’ applications: “Socio-economic relations and inequalities in modern Russia”, “Subjects of territorial relations: interests, behavior, interaction”, “Urban spaces and communities: transformation , development, conflicts”, “Dynamics of the labor market and employment in the context of digitalization and economic transformation”, “Spatial mobility and connectivity: what flows make space unified?” and “Development and preservation of human capital: trends, practices, factors.” Scientists from universities and institutes in several regions of Siberia and the Urals, as well as leading universities in Moscow, took part in them. Researchers from the Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics (Novosibirsk), Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, Higher School of Economics, Moscow State University presented their reports. . M.V. Lomonosov, Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ekaterinburg), Ural Federal University named after. the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (Ekaterinburg), Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology SB RAS (Ulan-Ude), Khakass State University named after. N.F. Katanova (Abakan). The majority of nonresident conference participants were researchers from Moscow universities. Representatives of several scientific organizations traditionally participate in the conference.

At the opening of the conference, the dean Faculty of Economics, NSU, candidate of sociological sciences Tatyana Bogomolova spoke about the history of the Novosibirsk economic and sociological school. Associate Professor of the Department of General Sociology of the Faculty of Economics of NSU, Head of the Department of Social Problems of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Production of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Olga Fadeeva spoke about rural (agrarian) research, which is the “calling card” of the Novosibirsk economic and sociological school.

The conference was held in a mixed format, but most of the presentations were in person. About 60 participants presented their reports, including not only experienced researchers, but also students, postgraduates and interns of university laboratories. The organizers of the scientific readings deliberately did not single out their presentations in a separate section, recognizing the relevance of the research of young sociologists and economists. Thus, the reports were made by NSU master’s students – Daria Ivanova (“Public conflicts in the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok: participants’ ideas about justice and prospects for their rapprochement”) and Rinat Galiullin (“Modern urban segregation: conceptual foundations of analysis”).

— Currently, research on urban problems is becoming one of the prominent areas, and at our conference a large block of speeches was devoted to the subjects of urban relations and urban conflicts. Reports were also presented on economic inequality, territorial relations, social aspects of the use of space and infrastructure, population migration, and the accumulation of human potential in a certain territory. Many messages were devoted to problems associated with digitalization, including relations in the labor market. It was discussed how moving many of the processes associated with registering unemployed status or finding a job into the digital space cuts off some job seekers and makes it easier for others to access them. Concluding our conference, we discussed how, due to digitalization, the data with which sociologists work is paradigmatically changing, and what new requirements arise for assessing their relevance, validity and other data quality criteria. On the one hand, we made sure that we were working on the current agenda and presented our research at the conference, on the other hand, we made new contacts, since researchers with whom we were not previously familiar responded to our invitation to take part in the Readings this year – said the head of the department of general sociology of the Faculty of Economics of NSU, leading researcher at the Institute of Economics and Organization of Industrial Production SB RAS Tatyana Cherkashina.

The participants’ attention was drawn to the report on the study by young researchers from the Higher School of Economics Kirill Chertenkov, Olga Rodina and Mikhail Balaban “What determines the desire to move? Results of questionnaire surveys in 10 regions of Russia”. No less interesting was the report by another postgraduate student of the Higher School of Economics, Georgy Stalinov “Practices of self-organization of couriers, taxi drivers and truck drivers”.

For the fourth time, representatives of the Center “Institute for Social Analysis and Forecasting” of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration took part in the scientific readings. This year, senior researcher Sofia Korzhuk spoke about the study “The Well-being of Foster Families: Obstacles and Ways to Achieve”, conducted jointly with leading researcher Alla Makarintseva. Alla Makarintseva herself gave a report “Factors of Intentions Regarding the Third Child: What Does the Analysis Show Using Machine Learning Methods”. She conducted the study of this problem jointly with senior researcher Alexandra Burdyak. Ekaterina Seredkina presented a report “Child Benefits as a Tool for Reducing Child Poverty in Russia: Microsimulation Analysis” about the study that she conducted together with Marina Kartseva and Polina Kuznetsova.

A highlight of the IV Novosibirsk Scientific Readings was the presentation by Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Department of Economic Sociology at the Higher School of Economics Vadim Radaev on the topics: “Crisis in Modern Education” and “Non-Standard Consumption: Characteristic Features, Causes and Consequences”.

— The conference program was designed in such a way that the participants not only listened to the reports, but also discussed them with each other. And according to the feedback from those present, the organizers succeeded in this. Our Moscow colleagues who took part in the online readings showed interest in this format of communication and actively participated in the discussion of their colleagues’ presentations. This is very important for us, because the same processes look and manifest themselves differently from Moscow and Siberia. It seems to me that at the past conference we laid the foundations, if not for joint research, then certainly for fruitful scientific communication, — said Tatyana Cherkashina.

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