This book is published in Moscow with the financial support of J

This book is published in Moscow with the financial support of J. and C. MacArthur foundaion. An agreement with the pubishing house INION RAN has been achieved. The volume of 450 pages has the following structure:

Social policy and social work in a changing Russia

Edited by Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov

Introduction

Part 1. Research methodology

1. The main concepts: social problems, social policy and social work

2. Professionalization of social work in Russia: perspectives for sociological studies

3. Feminist analysis of social policy

4. Organizational development of social services in transition period

Part 2. Social politics and social change – Soviet and post-Soviet periods

2.1.Welfare state in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia

2.2. Representation of social problems in Russian mass media in 1990s

2.3.Geronotological pathway in the labyrint of social politics

2.4.Family policy and child protection in retorics of oficial documents

2.5.Social policy towards the disabled

2.6. Gender aspects of disability

2.7.Gender and social politics in official discourse of International Women’s Day, 1918-2001 ãã.

2.8. Social work in school – the Russian case

Part 3. Ethnographies of social services

3.1. Ethnographical methods in studying social settings

3.2. Municipal center for helping family and children

3.3. Center for social services

3.4. Nursing home

3.5. Boarging school for children with disabilities

3.6. Rehabilitation center for children with disabilities

3.7. Bureau for medical-social expertize

3.8. Crisis center for women

Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendix