Article Category: sociology of family and gender


This article examines the practice of female genital mutilation in the Re-public of Dagestan. The secrecy of this issue requires empirical analysis. We aimed to review the data of empirical research in the Republic of Dagestan. The results of the study allow to reveal the problem of the existence of […]

Sirazhudinova S. V. Female genital mutilation in the Republic ...


The article is devoted to the analysis of gender regimes in welfare states from the angle of alarmist fatherhood discourse, which appeared in the 80s. Gender regime is a set of rules and norms which create stable expectations re-garding gender relations and assign specific rights and responsibilities to men and […]

Lipasova A. N. Fatherhood in gender regimes of the ...


One of the most actual problems in modern society is social orphanhood. This research refers to studies of the abandonments and neglect of children in Russia. In Russia the quantity of the newborn abandonment grows every year and makes 0,3—0,4 % of all newborn. The purpose of the article is […]

Samokhina K. I. The abandonments and neglect of children: ...



Trends in family/marital relations affect family formation in today’s society, including Russia. Couples living together without registration, also known as cohabitation, form an increasingly significant stage in building a marriage/family strategy. The paper deals with the emergence and spread of this phenomenon which was named “nubile cohabitation”. Quantitative data (obtained […]

Egorova N. Yu. Cohabitation in the marital strategies of ...