IV international sociological conference "Continuing Grushin"

Let us inform you, that on the 27-28th of February, 2014
the IV international sociological conference "Continuing Grushin" will take place.

We invite teachers, graduate students and students of faculty of IGSUP for participation in the conference, and also in section " Manpower policy in public administration: is it reply to time calls? " (moderator is A.Turchinov). The registration is available on the official site of Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) http://wciom.ru/conference2014/

Conference keynotes:
1) a problem of trust to sociology;
2)  quality of sociological data; 
3)  new methodologies and technics of researches. 

The conference action plan (additions and specifications are possible):
I.  The plenary session devoted to the problem of trust to sociology. 

II. The Sections themes:
(1)  "Between science and management: socio-political forecasting as disputable territory of intellectual production"
(2)  "Regional and local elections 2013-2015: new inquiry, new rules, new strategy" 
(3)  "Methodologies of social inspections"
(4)  "The research of public opinion on social networks"
(5)  "Everything is learned in comparison. Experience of the international comparative researches" 
(6) "The moral order and aggression" 
(7)  "The market of researches in Russia: infrastructure, tendencies and prospects"
(8) the financial behavior in «digital era» as technologies change installations and practicians
(9) «Expedition as instrument of sociological and cultural and anthropological research»
(10) "Manpower policy in public administration: is it reply to time calls?"

III.  Round-table discussions: 
(1) "Versus "forming polls" sociology: technologies, borders, sanctions" 
(2) "Automation of mass surveys: modern methods, paperless technologies"
(3) «Automation of telephone surveys: modern approaches to data recording»  

 IV. Master classes of leading Russian and foreign scientists (I. Steinberg, M.Traugott, E.Ponarin).

V. The rewarding of winners of the 5th competition of student's works on sociology on a grant of Russian Public Opinion Research Center.

Following the results of conference the collection of the theses will be published. The most interesting materials will be published of the scientific magazine of Russian Public Opinion Research Center "Monitoring of public opinion:  economic and social changes". 
Participants of conference will receive special certificates.

For more details see the conference page on an official site of Russian Public Opinion Research Center in the section "Scientific Conferences" http://wciom.ru/conference2014/.
The Registration for conference is here http://wciom.ru/900/#top and is possible for the listeners till the 17th of  February, for speaker till the 3rd of February.