ection Chair:   

Gennady V. Osipov, Academician of the RAS, Director of the HSCSS MSU. 

Section Structure:  

1. Contemporary Social Transformations: Factors, Conditions, and Outcomes.  

  (Chair: Irina B. Orlova, Professor, D.Sc. in Philosophy, Head of the Department of Sociology of Knowledge at HSCSS MSU).  

2. Constructing the Image of Russia: Theoretical, Methodological, and Practical Aspects.  

  (Chair: Vladimir L. Schultz, Corresponding Member of the RAS, Head of the Department of Social Construction, HSCSS MSU).  

3. Sociology of New Media and Digital Methods for Analysing Social Processes in New Media.  

  (Chairs: Alexander A. Grebenyuk, D.Sc. in Economics, Deputy Director for Research, HSCSS MSU; Igor S. Ashmanov, Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Head of the Department of Digital Sociology, SCSS MSU, President of JSC ‘Kribrum’; Alexander S. Velikikh, Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of Knowledge, HSCSS MSU; Anastasia S. Maximova, Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of Knowledge, HSCSS MSU).  

4. Socio-Economic Aspects of Contemporary Migration Processes.  

  (Chairs: Olga D. Vorobyova, D.Sc. in Economics, Professor of the Department of Demography, HSCSS MSU; Victoria Yu. Ledeneva, D.Sc. in Sociology, Head of the Department of Ethnodemographic and Integration Processes, Centre for Social Demography, ISPR RAS, Professor of the Department of Sociology of Knowledge, HSCSS MSU).  

5. Socialisation of Russian Youth in the Context of a Changing Reality: Norms and Deviations.  

  (Chairs: Oleg V. Sorokin, Ph.D. in Sociology, Deputy Director for Extracurricular Activities, HSCSS MSU, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of Knowledge, HSCSS MSU; Ksenia S. Kriventsova, Postgraduate, HSCSS MSU).  

6. Current Trends of Russia’s Demographic Development.  

  (Chairs: Vladimir A. Iontsev, D.Sc. in Economics, Professor, Head of the Department of Demography, HSCSS MSU; Yulia A. Uzkaia, Ph.D. in Economics, Deputy Director for Academic Affairs, HSCSS MSU, Associate Professor of the Department of Demography, SCSS MSU). 

7. Social Aspects of Economic Processes. 

  (Chair: Alexander S. Smakotin, Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology and Management of Public Processes, HSCSS MSU).  

8. Management in the Information Society.  

  (Chairs: Sergey S. Slabov, Ph.D. in Sociology, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology and Management of Public Processes, SCSS MSU; Kira V. Reshetnikova, Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor of the Department of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, HSE, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology and Management of Public Processes, HSCSS MSU).  

9. Human Resource Management in the Digital Civilisation.  

  (Chairs: Viktor D. Krivov, D.Sc. in Economics, Head of the Department of Sociology and Management of Public Processes, HSCSS MSU; Viktor V. Krupenkov, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Sociology and Management of Public Processes, HSCSS MSU).  

10. Sociology of Religion: Values, Beliefs, and Identities.  

  (Chairs: Natalia S. Zimova, Ph.D. in Sociology, Associate Professor of the Department of Social Construction, SCSS MSU; Egor V. Fomin, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Sociology of Knowledge, HSCSS MSU).

11. Artificial Societies.  

  (Chairs: Valery L. Makarov, Academician of the RAS, D.Sc. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Head of the Department of Knowledge Economy; Yuri N. Maximov, D.Sc. in Economics, Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Knowledge Economy, HSCSS MSU; Alexander G. Pisarenkov, Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor of the Department of Knowledge Economy).  

12. Political Sociology.  

  (Chair: Maria S. Ivchenkova, Ph.D. in Sociology, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Sociology, ISPR RAS, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of Knowledge, HSCSS MSU).  

13. Sociological Projects for Aspiring Researchers (Section for 10th–11th Grade Students).

  (Chairs: Alexander. A. Grebenyuk, D.Sc. in Economics, Deputy Director for Research, HSCSS MSU; Maria Yu. Drobysheva, Assistant Lecturer of the Department of Sociology of Knowledge).

Conference Secretary: Maria Yu. Drobysheva  

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