Gevorg Poghosyan

There are scientists whose names are associated with the formation of a school of thought or even of an entire scientific discipline. Professor Yadov was one of these – a pioneer during the Soviet era, whose scholarly work and research efforts decisively shaped Soviet sociology. Since the 1960s Yadov’s scholarly works have had a formative influence on several generations of Armenian and Soviet sociologists. His three famous monographs Man...

The social transformations at the end of the 20th century, following the breakup of the Soviet Union, inaugurated a new historical era. Post-Soviet countries involved in the process of social modernization have experienced serious developmental difficulties. The “modernization rebound” and deindustrialization represent a common stage of post-Soviet development. The problem lies in the exclusion of ethno-cultural processes from models of modernization. In...