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Lecture by Professor Martin Everett (University of Manchester) "Social Network Analysis: A Brief History and Overview"

08.03.2014
More than half a century has passed since a group of sociologists and anthropologists announced the creation of a new language for describing the social structure, in which “groups”, characterized by certain attributes, superseded communications between individuals and organizations. The development of mathematical theories of networks supplemented this language with a formal method for analyzing empirical information, presenting alternatives to traditional statistics.
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Lecture by Roland Robertson (University of Aberdeen, UK) "Reconfiguration of the World in the Perspecitive of the Global Field"

27.02.2014
The contemporary sociological dictionary is obliged to Roland Roberston for the development and the popularization of the terms globalization and glocalization. In 1968, Roberston put forth a thesis that the sphere of culture has a decisive meaning for the categorization of the world, and began to develop the theory of globalization, which allows the conceptualization of the not only as a structure of changes, but also as changes that originate at the level of the consciousness of individuals.
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Counterdemocracy. Politics in the Age of Mistrust

09.02.2014
Pierre Rosanvallon is a professor at the Collège de France and one of the leading authorities on European political theory, as well as a specialist in history and the theory of democracy. His research interests include the history of political thought, forms of civilian political participation, realistic analysis of contemporary politics, and the structural difficulties and crises of democratic government. He is also a social critic and public intellectual insistent on the necessity of new institutional forms of democracy and new practices of political participation under the world’s current conditions.

Lecture by Loet Leyesdorff, professor (University of Amsterdam) "International Academic Collaboration at the Global Level"

02.07.2013
Which countries most often produce scientists and researchers who collaborate on articles and patents? How is the global system of international cooperation constructed? With the proliferation of means of social network analysis, these relations are easily visualized though the construction of network maps of international collaborations. Despite the simplicity of the approach, the study of these networks can lead us to serious conclusions.
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International conference "Democracy: between the national and the global"

24.06.2013
Being a hegemonic doctrine in the world politics, “democracy” does several things at the same time: it legitimizes the status quo of parliamentary republic, allows for imperialist interventions of NATO and US into affairs of periphery countries, and eventually provokes movements for “real” democracy, such as the global wave of protests in 2011-2012.
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