Social Distances as a Feature of the Contemporary Russian Social Space

Belyaeva, Lyudmila; Moscow, Russia

doi:10.22363/2313-2272-2018-18-1-58-72

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“…A borrowed word combination, "social distance" (социальная дистанция) is not completely new in Russian media discourse, and its semantics encompass the "apartness/stand-offishness of an individual from a different culture/nation", "a gap between the well-off and the poor", as well as "a distance between people during a formal communication", which may refer to both literal and figurative distance. 2 Interestingly, this metaphorical term, which was formerly used to describe tendencies towards destabilization brought about by divisions in Soviet-Russian society, has narrowed its scope to denote "physical distance" alone (Belyaeva, 2018). The 2020 Covid pandemic brought a precise new meaning in this sense, the physical distance of 1.5-2 metres considered necessary to avoid spread of the disease.…”

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Poems in lockdown: Cultural aspects of English and Russian “coroneologisms”

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Davletshina

2022

Topics in Linguistics

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Thanks largely to the affordances of social media, the Covid-19 pandemic has provoked a glut of neologisms, loan-words, abbreviations, calques and other linguistic variants. The crisis was accompanied in most nations by social measures curtailing what have long been seen as fundamental liberties; hence, it has foregrounded the re-emergence of old controversies about individualism vs collectivism, the nature of personal freedom, the role of the state, the right to healthcare, the distribution of wealth, and so on. On the UK side, our study explores some emergent neologisms in English and Russian, especially implicit meaning in terms like “social distancing” and “lockdown”. We consider cross-cultural implications that relate to the way each national group conceptualized, and lived through, the experiences of lockdown. Linguistic practices may reflect deep-seated habits of being that characterize different countries, and thus our research may shed light on long-standing questions of national stereotypes. We look at some of the Covid-19 neologisms produced and/or used in British and Russian contexts, on the assumption that, by comparing these micro-linguistic practices, it is possible to learn something concerning the cultural realities of the countries in question, along the lines proposed in the works of Hofstede (2001) and Wierzbicka (2003).

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Poems in lockdown: Cultural aspects of English and Russian “coroneologisms”

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Davletshina

2022

Topics in Linguistics

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Entrepreneurial Potential of Belarus Citizens Living in Areas Contaminated by Radionuclides

Kargapolova

Лашук

2022

TSU Herald. Soc Econ Law Res

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This article analyzes the strategies in entrepreneurship of the citizens of the Republic of Belarus who currently live in the areas that were affected by the Chernobyl disaster. The empirical base consists of the results from the scientific research “To carry out a sociological assessment of the entrepreneurial potential of the territories affected by the Chernobyl disaster within the framework of the event ‘To conduct a sociological assessment of the factors, mechanisms and conditions of development of small and medium-sized businesses in the territories affected by the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’” of the State Program for elimination of the effects of the Chernobyl disaster for 2021-2025 (No. GR 20213172). Object of the present research is the adult (aged 16-59 years) population of the Republic of Belarus who lives in the areas affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Subject of the research is entrepreneurial activity of different socio-demographic and territorial groups of the population of the areas affected by the Chernobyl disaster as well as their evaluation of the conditions for small and medium-sized business development. The research resulted in identifying the hybrid nature of socio-economic systems of the regions under study as the employment structure combines market and non-market preferences and motivations with a slight prevalence of market ones. On the one hand, in a present competitive environment mixed economic systems that combine market and non-market structures have a greater chance of success. On the other hand, in such systems a strategic value is assigned to the need for strengthening of moral structures of a personality which allow to maintain balance between material and spiritual aspects of life. After all, the preponderance of material aspects leads to consumer sentiments that are difficult to satisfy. As a consequence, it results in the decline of fertility rates, environmental issues, and the increase of social tensions.

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Social Distances as a Feature of the Contemporary Russian Social Space

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Poems in lockdown: Cultural aspects of English and Russian “coroneologisms”

Poems in lockdown: Cultural aspects of English and Russian “coroneologisms”

Entrepreneurial Potential of Belarus Citizens Living in Areas Contaminated by Radionuclides

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