Margarita Sergeevna Astoyants
Research interests:
social exclusion (inclusion), social orphanhood, youth social problems
Research projects:
Socio-cultural determination of the personal characteristics of juveniles in conditions of deprivation
Social orphanhood: conditions, mechanisms and dynamics of exclusion (socio-cultural interpretation)
The Changing Dynamics of Political Discourse About Orphans in Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods
Social orphanhood: strategy and prospects of a social inclusion
Teaching:
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Visual sociology
the direction of sociology studying the social and cultural phenomena through a prism of visual images and representations (photos, movies, advertizing and so forth).
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Methodology and methods of a sociological research
Purpose of studying of discipline is to arm the student with methodology, a technique and technique of sociological researches, to develop at him practical skills and abilities in the field of the analysis of specific social problems by polling methods, to help to become focused on researches in further professional activity