Consumer confidence surveys are regularly conducted in more than 50?countries, including Russia. Most of them measure how optimistic or pessimistic consumers are with respect to the economy in the near future and test the predictive power of CSI components. Only a few studies analyze the...

In the book “Returning to Capitalism in order to Escape Crises” (“Revenir au capitalisme pour eviter les crises”) P. Salin, professor of Economics at University Paris-Douphine, provides his analysis of the 2007–2009 financial crisis with the purpose to develop general conceptualization...

This article focuses on the “domestication” of hard disk drives’ technologies and the development of data recovery market in Post-Soviet Russia. Drawingon 3,5 years ethnographic research with one data recovery service center in Moscow, as well as on 12 in-depth narrative semi-structured...

The article argues that economic sociologists underestimate the problem of consumers’ price perception in their studies while it may be used as an effective key to the social orders of modern markets. Sociological studies of consumers’ price perception are very few and mostly performed at...

This article focuses on the contrasting urbanisms that characterize the two cities of Heihe and Blagoveshchensk on the Sino-Russian border. Since 1990, with the bulk of international trade taking place on the Chinese side, Heihe has rapidly developed into a modern town; by contrast,...

Corruption as social phenomenon is studied by a variety of disciplines?? anthropology, criminology, development theory, economics, political science, psychology, sociology. Each of them has developed its own scientific traditions associated with different methods of collecting and analyzing...

The article is devoted to consumer choice-making in markets of funeral services, influence of social networks on market transactions, and role of emotions in the indicated processes. Choice-making in markets of funeral services is considered in terms of social interaction. Physical death of an...

Analyzing the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey data of 2006–2009 years, the author reveals three groups of consumers which differ in their shopping practices: those who buy food (1) only in traditional stores, (2) only in modern stores, (3) in modern and traditional stores. The article...