2011. N 3

Limited research has examined the dynamics of social inequalities in health and the types of health risky behaviors. The article attempts to reveal the educative and income di?erences in self- assessment of health, alcohol and tobacco consumption, simultaneously studying the patterns of change of these di?erences in the post-soviet Russia.Data were obtained from the mass-survey, conducted in the frames of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), from the second round of annual polls held during 1994–2009 (excluding 1997), the age of the respondents being 26–70 years.The results show the link between self-assessment of health and position in social hierarchy: self- reported health of lower income and educational strata representatives varies signi?cantly of that of more wealthy and well-educated respondents. The e?ects of both the substantial economic growth of the decade of 2000, and the development of the medical services have been dramatically declined by the expansive alcohol and tobacco consumption in men and women of di?erent social strata. However this augmentation proved being more harmful to the less privileged groups.

In this article we continue to search of approaches to development of theory of practices and its application for the sociological analysis. We focus on the educational families strategies in relation to children. In particular, we consider the structure of the phenomenon of “practice”, and the concept of “social situation”. As a result of analysis there is a typology of educational practices in the families of rural municipal leaders and heads of agricultural enterprises.

The paper presents some qualitative analysis results of the Biographical collection obtained by Sociological Institute. The author examines the biographical narratives of two generations to find out the differences in value adaptation to social changes.

The subject of the article is retreatism as a conscious change of way of living, motivated by “escape” from the norms and values of the modern consumption society. Based on analysis of cases, examined concrete steps of changing way of living and everyday practices (in the context of basic norms, values and way of living in a consumer society). Raised the question of “norm / deviation” of retreatism as a life strategy.

The idea of creativeness seems to be trend in mentality of modern civilization. The article under¬lines both positive and negative consequences of contemporary “creative enthusiasm” in fields of political structures and cultural patterns — especially in current Russian obstacles. When “innovating product” are removal from “tested classiness” there is the danger of institutional and cultural deviations (resp. autarchy and postmodernism). Even the field of scientific, technologi¬cal and economical innovations (creativity) are not free from those rules which were born in classic epoch yet and which would be translated in sense of famous Volters’ aphorisms: “Use, but don’t misuse!”

The article contains the description of the main indicators which are calculated on the base of international databases. These indicators are used to evaluate an efficiency of scientists and scientific organizations and to compare the development of science in different countries. In the article are named the basic limitations that must be considered when using these indicators.

The paper reports a structural development of the coding and retrieval functions that constitute a core of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis. A result of proposed development is referred to as context-oriented coding tools that are composed with two main structural components. The first one, called thesaurus, is a set of concepts linked to one another by a collection of elementary relationships, each having the same structure and called context-fixed elucidation (CFE). CFE is a unit that provides an analyst with a means for denoting by a new notion a change of terms already incorporated by him in the thesaurus. The concept change is modeled within the CFE body by a relationship “one-to-many”. The thesaurus is to be drawn up by an analyst in a man-computer mode. The second component occurs as compiling algorithms that can compose unified tree-like graphs with concepts as nodes out of structurally unlinked CFEs gathered in the thesaurus. The graphs demonstrate the visibility and multiple inheritance relationships between the thesaurus’ concepts. The compilation of the conceptual graphs is considered a tool aimed to check up analyst’s reasoning. The proposed coding tools are thought of as a core of context-oriented qualitative data analysis. A conceptualization of an informant’s textual evidence is carried out by the author with help of a package that represents the structural and algorithmic proposals reported in the paper.