Formal Borders and Cross-Border Interactions: Country – Region – Municipality
... relationships between territories while altering social practices.
Currently, the redistribution of functions among borders of different levels, known as re-bordering and de-bordering, is taking place around the world. On the one hand, the collapse of states and the subsequent fragmentation of the political map have transformed some administrative borders into national boundaries. On the other hand, the barrier function of some other borders has diminished owing to regional integration. Political reforms ...
Georges Gurvitch and Sergey Hessen on the Possibility of Forming Social Unity
... century saw European philosophical thought becoming increasingly interested in the sociological extension of the idea of law. From the viewpoint of the sociology of law, law is formed in the process of social interactions and is not sanctioned by the state. Sergey Hessen and Georges Gurvitch base their conceptions of social law on the sociology of law in the 1920s and 1930s. They start a polemic in the pages of the journal Sovremenniye zapiski (Contemporary Notes). Although they differ radically in ...
Bogdan Kistiakovy’s Project of “State of the Future” as Synthesis of the Ideas of Liberalism and Socialism
... the principles behind attributing concrete thinkers to this movement. The article emphasises the inconsistency of classifying Kistyakovsky’s socio-philosophical concept as liberal. The analysis performed is based on Kistyakovsky’s model of the ‘state of the future’ — a project of a socialist rule-of-law state developed by Kistyakovsky at the turn of the 20th century. The article identifies distinct Marxist analogies and parallels in the contents of this project. The ‘state of the future’ ...
The state-civil identity among the student youth of the Russian Federation: theoretical and applied aspects
... the level of state-civil identity of student youth in some federal districts is given, which turned out to be possible thanks to the use of the mass survey method. As a result, it was revealed that the study participants demonstrate a high level of state and civic identity. The focus-group method has shown its consistency in studying how this value orientation in the political consciousness of student youth develops. For the research participants, statehood is the semantic identity category....
