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Embodiment: Thoughts From An Existential-Analytical Perspective

Stankovskaya, Elena - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014

Modern culture has a keen in interest in the embodiment and comprehensive psychological approaches of conceptualizing … embodiment and enrich them with other investigations in this sphere. The central argument is that the theory of four fundamental … motivations developed by Langle is a useful way to comprehend the complexity of embodiment. This paper discusses the four levels …

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Are banks peer disciplined? Evidence from post-crisis Russia

Semenova, Maria; Andrievskaya, Irina - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2012

Market discipline is usually studied in the retail or the corporate deposit markets, while the interbank loan market is disregarded. Banks' abilities to exert market discipline are taken for granted, as they are expected to have the expertise to assess correctly the riskiness of other banks....

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Informal loans in Russia: credit rationing or borrower’s choice?

Semenova, Maria; Rodina, Victoria - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

This paper examines the strategies of Russian households for choosing either the formal or informal banking sector as a source of credit. We aim to learn why households refuse to become clients of a bank and prefer to instead raise funds by borrowing from individuals – friends, colleagues,...

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Consumer Expectations Of Russian Populations: Cohort Analysis (1996–2009)

Ibragimova, Dilyara - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014

The research deals with the analysis of consumer expectations of Russian population, which are mediated by many socio-demographic characteristics: income, age, education, place of residence, sex, etc. The paper points up the influence on variable “age” because it is rather complex itself....

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Money management in russian families

Ibragimova, Dilyara - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

This paper reports the findings of an all-Russian cross-sectional representative survey (N=1600) that was carried out by HSE in 2011. It investigates money management in Russian families. Pooling is the most common money management style, however, the choice of budget management system does not...

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Post-socialist anomie through the lens of economic modernization and the formalization of social control

Swader, Christopher; Kosals, Leon - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

This paper inquires into how economic modernization impacts normative regulation by spurring, on the one hand (a) formal media of normative regulation (also known as formal social control) in the spheres of politics, economics and interpersonal relations and, on the other hand, (b) informality...

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Constructing Identities And Boundaries: Fashion And Clothing Of Working And Middle Class Youth In Contemporary Russia

Kuleva, Margarita I. - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2015

Clothing and fashion play significant role in the process of ageing, and help put bodily experiences in the context of culture. It is especially important for young people as social subjects, who are starting to become independent but do not have sufficient experience and social competences to...

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Grounded and Normative Dimensions of National Pride in Comparative Perspective

Fabrykant, Marharyta; Magun, Vladimir - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2015

The objective of this paper is to describe cross-country similarities and differences in national pride and to explain national pride variations on the individual and country levels. The analysis in this paper is applied to different measures of national pride, with some of them being relatively...

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Corruption and social values: do postmaterialists justify bribery?

Kravtsova, Maria; Oshchepkov, Aleksey; Welzel, Christian - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014

Using World Values Survey data from dozens of countries around the world, this article analyzes the relationship between postmaterialist values and attitudes towards bribery in a multi-level framework. This is an inherently interesting and under-researched topic because the various propensities...

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Measuring Adolescent Individual Values With Rating And Constant-Sum Scales

Podolskiy, Dmitriy - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014

The main goal of the studies described in this article is to examine the relationship between a) the extent of the differences of the value hierarchy for adolescents revealed by different methods and b) the risk factors for problem behavior. The first study is tests the hypothesis that larger...

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