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The Faculty of sociology
Department of Sociology is one of 19 departments of the St. Petersburg State University. The Faculty is located in a wing of the Smolny Convent.
The Faculty is one of the leading educational and scientific centers of sociological education, theoretical and applied researches in Russia and it continues the tradition of Russian sociology, laid by P.A. Sorokin.
History of the Faculty
The faculty was established in 1989 based on Department of Applied Sociology, Faculty of Economics. The structure of the department initially consisted of three departments, they are now - eleven.
The first dean of the faculty was Asalhan Olzonovich Boronoev. In 2000 Nikolai Genrikhovich Skvortsov became a dean.
Originally the faculty located at the 10th line of Vasilevsky Island, in the building of the preparatory department of St. Petersburg State University. Classes were partly held in the Faculty of Geography.
In 1991 faculty moved into the wing of Smolny Convent, where he is situated until nowadays. Since then the expansion of faculty areas had been proceeding gradually.
Originally sociology and labor economics were trained on the faculty, later the Social Anthropology and Social Work added, and in the 2000s, connected with the needs of the market, the “Applied Computer Science in sociology” and “Organization of work with young people” appeared. Since 1998 the graduates of sociology faculty receive a bachelor's degree. Since 1999, graduates - bachelors and specialists - have an opportunity to continue studying as Masters.
Since 1994, November 14 is celebrated on the Faculty as the day of sociologist .
In 1998 the “Sociology Department” and the “Research Institute of Comprehensive Social Research” associated into one. That is how the UC Sociology was created, later, the Federal Centre of Excellence "Sociology" (Center for Continuing Education in sociology and social work) was added to this Centre.
In 2000, the Department held the first All-Russian Congress of Sociology.
History of the Smolny convent.
Smolny Convent of the Resurrection (Voskresensky), located on Ploschad Rastrelli, on the bank of the River Neva consists of a cathedral and a complex of buildings surrounding it, originally intended for a convent.
This convent was built to house Elizabeth . Then she decided against entering monastic life and accepted the offer of the Russian throne and work on the convent continued with her royal patronage.
The convent's main church, a blue-and-white building, is considered to be one of the architectural masterpieces of the Italian architec Francesco Bartolomeo Rasstrelli, who also created many other major St. Petersburg landmarks.
The Cathedral is the centerpiece of the convent, built by Rastrelli between 1748 and 1764. The projected bell-tower was to become the tallest building in St. Petersburg and, at the time, all of Russia. Elizabeth's death in 1762 prevented Rastrelli from completing this grand design.
When Catherine II assumed the throne the construction of the convent rapidly ran out. The building was only finished in 1835 by Vasiliy Stasov with the addition of a neo-classical interior to suit the changed architectural tastes at the time. The Cathedral was consecrated on 22 July 1835. The church was closed by the Soviet authorities in 1923.
Today, Smolny Cathedral is used primarily as a concert hall and the surrounding convent buildings house various offices and government institutions. In addition, the faculties of sociology, political science and international relations of the Saint Petersburg State University are located in some of the buildings surrounding the cathedral.
The nearby Smolny Institute is named after the convent.
Branches.
Branches are allocated by function or by forms of learning.
At the Department there are such offices of specialties:
General Sociology
Labour Economics
Social Anthropology
Social Work
Applied Computer Science in Sociology
Sociology of youth and youth policy
In accordance with the form of training, students can study full-time, part-time (evening) and correspondence courses. Students in any specialty and forms of training learn on budget or fee base. There are about 1300 students on the faculty. Now faculty is also organizing distance learning programs.
Departments
Currently, the faculty has the following departments:
1. Department of Applied and Industrial Sociology. Was founded in 1984, on the Faculty of Economics. Later the Department of Sociology was based on it. The head is prfessor V.G. Ovsyannikov.
2. Department of Theory and History of Sociology. Was established in 1989. The Head of it is professor of Academy of Natural Sciences, Honored Scientist of Russia A.O. Boronoev.
3. Department of Social Management and Planning. Established in 1989. Head - Doctor of sociological sciences L.T. Volchkova.
4. Department of Social Analysis and Mathematical Methods in Sociology. Established in 1990. Head – A.N. Soshnev.
5. Department of Sociology, political and social processes. Established in 1990. Head - Doctor of sociological sciences, Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation V.D. Vinogradov.
6. The Department of Economic Sociology. Established in 1994. Head - Doctor of sociological sciences Y.V. Veselov.
7. Department of Sociology of Culture and Communication. Established in 1997. Head - prof., V.V. Kozlovsky.
8. Department of Theory and practice of social work. Established in 1997. Head - prof., V.N. Kelasyev.
9. The department of cultural anthropology and ethnic sociology. Established in 1997. Head - prof., Doctor of sociological sciences A.I. Kuropjatnik.
10. Department of Comparative Sociology. Established in 2004. Head - prof., Doctor of sociological sciences N.G. Skvortsov.
11. Department of Sociology of youth and youth policy. Established in 2005. Head - prof., Doctor of sociological sciences A.A. Kozlov.
Ther are over 300 employees on the faculty, from which 130 are teachers (professors, associate professors, senior lecturers, assistant lecturers, doctors and candidates of sciences).
Magistracy
Magistracy on Sociology faculty was opened in 1999. Training is carried out in different programs:
1. Contemporary Sociological Theory
2. History of foreign and domestic sociology
3. Sociology of Social Changes
4. Sociology of Management
5. Economic Sociology
6. Sociology of Culture
7. Sociology of Politics and International Relations
8. Sociology of communications
9. Modern methods and techniques in the study of social problems
10. Gender Studies
11. Public Health
12. Studies in European Societies
13. Sociology of work and entrepreneurship.
Post-graduate and doctoral
Postgraduate studies and doctoral studies are conducted in the following specialties:
Theory, Methodology and History of Sociology
Economic sociology and demography
Social structure, social institutions and processes
Sociology of culture and spiritual life
Sociology of management
Political institutes, ethnopolitical conflict studies, and national political processes and technologies
Two dissertation councils for doctoral and master's theses are working there.
International relations
Training and development of education is impossible without the accounting of international experience. During its existence, the Faculty was a member of three European projects TEMPUS-TACIS program, in which his partners were the universities of Germany, Austria, Britain, France and Portugal. There are exchange programs for student. Students, undergraduates, postgraduates, doctoral students have the opportunity to receive scholarships to study abroad. There is also an International Center for Researches in the social sphere on the faculty.
Relations with Europe.
Through inter-university agreements, in which the subjects reflected sociological themes, Department of Sociology, State University cooperates with universities in France - Lille Institute of Political Science, University of Strasbourg, the University of Grenoble 2, Portugal - Lisbon University, UK - University of Warwick, Poland - Warsaw University, the University of Wroclaw , Finland - University of Turku, Helsinki, etc. As a rule, the best graduates each year continue their education at Central European University (Budapest). There are good conditions for learning during the semester or academic year at universities in Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, etc.
Most SPBU’s students learn English. Periodically, lectures are given by foreign teachers. In one of the master's program (Studies in European Societies) is conducted in English language.
Relations with Germany and Austria.
Faculty has close partnerships with the University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, higher vocational school, the faculty of humanities, social sciences and educational Magdeburg University Otto-von-Guericke, Institute of Sociology, Open University Hagen, Free University of Berlin, University of Vienna and the University of Hamburg, Leipzig, Salzburg, Erfurt.
With the view of the scientific cooperation in the social sciences, development of sociology and education, as well as the expansion of international scientific contacts the Russian-German Centre for Social Sciences was established in the Department. Students have an opportunity to learn German. A contest for a scholarship under the program of German Academic Exchange Service is held on a regular basis. A program on "Teaching Sociology in German," collaborate with the Center of German and European Studies. Senior students and graduates in the social sciences have the opportunity to learn more on retraining program "Society, economy and culture of Germany."
Relations with United States.
There are student exchange programs with Franklin College, School of Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Relations with Asia.
On the faculty there are:
Russian-Chinese Center for Comparative Social, Economic and Political Studies. It was created in 2004.
Institute of Eastern and Western societies. Created in 2004. The Institute promotes the implementation of educational and research projects related to the case study companies of the Asia-Pacific region, including the Korean society, and their comparison with Western societies as a promising area of development of sociology and other social sciences taught in the department. Korean language is taught there. There are student exchange programs with Sunlin College (South Korea).