Социс 2010 №2 SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES monthly No. 2 (310) 2010 Founded 1974 CONTENTS SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIETY ZHUKOV V.I. World-wide crisis: economy and sociology of global processes p. 3-10 VIDOEVICH Z. Social inequalities, democracy and development p. 10-19 POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY KRUKHMALEV A.E. Plutocracy as a phenomenon of transforming Russia p. 20-29 ANURIN V.F., SADULINA A.M. Bureaucracy: views from ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ p. 29-38 ZAZULINA M.P., SAMSONOV V.S. Collisions in reforming local rural governance (an expert study) p. 38-44 ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY STREBKOV D.O., SHEVCHUK A.F. Freelancers in Russia’s labor market p. 45-56 BESSOKIRNAYA G.P. Dynamics of values and motives for work p. 56-64 VORONOV V.V. Economic consciousness and value orientations among higher school graduates in Latgalia (Latvia) p. 64-68 SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE IL’IN A.N. Mass culture and subculture: the general and the specific p. 69-75 ZAMIATIN D.N. Heritage image in culture. Methodological approaches to studying the notion of heritage p. 75-82 SOCIOLOGY OF EDUATION KLIUCHAREV G.A. Corporate and departmental education: specifics, effectiveness and outlook p. 83-92 POPOVA I.P. Extra professional education impact on the situation or workers in varying social and professional groups p. 92-100 EFENDIEV A.G., BALABANOVA E.S. Professional careers of management department graduates p. 100-110 SOCIOLOGY OF FAMILY PATSIORKOVKY V.V., PATSIORKOVSKAYA V.V. Households and family in rural Russia p. 111-118 TIKHOMIROVA V.A. Social moods and value orientations in a young family p. 118-125 GOL’TSOVA E.V., LESHCHENKO Ya.A. Factors of social environment as determinants for marriage and birth rate p. 125-130 HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY GRIFFIN L. Historical sociology, narrative and event-structure analysis. 15 years later p. 131-141 BAIYYR-OOL M.S. A unique case of vertical mobility p. 141 ACADEMIC EVENTS – REFLECTING ON A NEW BOOK – BOOK REVIEWS – BOOKS IN BRIEF - CONTENTS