Browsing by Author "Barbashin, Maksim"

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Imitation Modeling and Institutional Studies
(2017) Barbashin, Maksim
"This article discusses the use of imitation modeling in the conduct of institutional research. The institutional approach is based on the observation of social behavior. To understand a social process means to determine the key rules that individuals use, undertaking social actions associated with this process or phenomenon. This does not mean that institutions determine behavioral reactions, although there are a number of social situations where the majority of individuals follow the dominant rules. If the main laws of development of the institutional patterns are known, one can describe most of the social processes accurately. The author believes that the main difficulty with the analysis of institutional processes is their recursive nature: from the standards of behavior one may find the proposed actions of social agents who follow, obey or violate institutions, but the possibility of reconstructive analysis is not obvious. The author demonstrates how the institutional approach is applied to the analysis of social behavior. The article describes the basic principles and methodology of imitation modeling. Imitation modeling reveals the importance of institutions in structuring social transactions. The article concludes that in the long term institutional processes are not determined by initial conditions."
Institutsionalnaya demokratiya i sotsialnye dilemmy: opyt postsovetskih transformatsiy [Institutional Democracy and Social Dilemmas: the Experience of Post-Soviet Transformations]
(Saarbrucken, Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011) Barbashin, Maksim
This book examines the institutional foundations of democratic processes in the Post-Soviet transition era and demonstrates the importance of institutional regulation in social dilemmas for stable democratic development. It is difficult to define how modern democratic regimes depend on institutional factors. Such factors are not thoroughly researched by public intellectuals, and some of them are unknown. In many cases, institutional processes are ignored, not because of ill bad intentions, but due to the methodological impossibility of complex research. Taking into account the importance of understanding institutional character of democracy for social knowledge development and improvement of socio-political practice in Russian conditions to construct stable political foundations for modernization reforms, one needs to study social dilemmas which can help researchers understand the institutional features of contemporary democracy in a globalized world. This monograph is for sociologists, philosophers, political scientists and all those who are interested in understanding democracy and institutions in contemporary society
Institutsional’naia teoriia etnichnosti [An Institutional Theory of Ethnicity]
(Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, 3, 112-127, 2016) Barbashin, Maksim
The article examines methodological aspects of applying institutional approaches in research on ethnicity. An institutional analysis, as the author points out, is instrumental in moving research from the level of studying the history of an ethnic group onto the level of exploring its structural development. The application of an institutional approach helps us to cast a new perspective on a variety of issues such as reproduction of ethnicity, ethnic conflict, subethnic groups, ethnic development, etc. The author argues that the study of ethnicity should be brought into the context of individual behavior within the institutional space of a group, and that ethnology should adopt an institutional theoretical stance in order to fully realize the methodological potential of neo-institutionalism
Instituty i etnogenez: institutionalnoe vosproizvodstvo etnicheskoy identichnosti v lokalnyh soobshchstvah [Institutions and Ethnogenesis: Institutional Reproduction of Ethnic Identity in Local Communities]
(IPO PI Southern Federal University Press, 2014) Barbashin, Maksim
For most Post-Soviet states, including Russia, the institutional tasks of constructing a stable nationhood is real and urgent. Resolving this is complicated not only by economic, cultural and political transitions, but also by the ambiguity and complexity of ethnogenesis in the transformed socio-political space. The importance of understanding institutional reproduction of ethnic identity for social knowledge and socio-political practices in Russia, are taken into account. These factors are important to create stable social measures of preventive and practical influence, against ethnic separatism and ethnoreligious extremism. The author addresses questions, which are not researched will in contemporary science. This monograph is for sociologists, philosophers, anthropologists, teachers of the humanities and social sciences and all those who are interested in understanding ethnicity and ethnogenesis in contemporary society.
Instituty i identichnost: metodologicheskie vozmojnosti teorii institutsionalnogo raspada v sovremennyh sotsialnyh issledovaniah [Institutions and Identity: Methodological Opportunities of the Theory of Institutional Disintegration in Contemporary Social Studies]
(Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 2014, XVIII, #4(75), 178-188, 2014) Barbashin, Maksim
The methodological opportunities of theory of institutional disintegration developed by the author and the implication of the theory in social studies are analyzed. The problem of institutional transformation is one of the main theoretical problems in new institutionalism. The author believes that social institutions describe acceptable and unacceptable social behaviors for social actors, and institutional disintegration is the result of the gradual evolution of norms and rules of behavior. Institutional disintegration starts as the result of the growth of default rules. Like lawyers who use situational variety, the potential for overestimation, and any ambiguity in unclear formulations, social actors use a broad set of ‘softening’ reasons of failures to observe norms, and select rules that are regarded as deviations by the majority of the population. In this article, identity is considered a product of social institutions, and the result of institutional disintegration. The theory explains how “inner” transformation of rules of behavior impacts on identity development, and how identity development impacts on institutional processes. Analyzing the methodological advantages and problems of such an approach, the author concludes that the theory of institutional disintegration has some methodological perspectives in social studies. The author believes that identity studies can help social researchers to understand not only problems of identity development, but also difficulties attached to institutional processes in the modern world.
Instituty vysshego obrazovaniya i sotsialnye dilemmy: komparativnyy analiz rossiyskoy i amerikanskoy obrazovatelnoy sistem [The Institutes of the Higher Education and Social Dilemmas: Comparative Analysis of the Russian and American Higher Education Systems
(Pedagogy and Education, #2(10), 151-158, 2013) Barbashin, Maksim
In the article, the institutional processes in the higher education system both in Russia and the USA are analyzed. Higher education is necessary for civic development, because democratic society needs educated citizens to participate in the resolution of actual state tasks. A proposed aim of institutional reform in the Russian university system is to transit to innovation-based education at par with leading universities (similar American ones). Thus, one needs to take into account the institutional features of the American system of higher education. Using the propositions of comparative analysis and new institutionalism, the author analyzes key institutions and their implementation in the Russian education sphere. The author concludes that national education peculiarities must be taken into account when implementing academic and educational institution reforms. Not accounting for these, will not lead to innovative and world-level education, and professional training quality improvement.
Metodologicheskie vozmojnosti “Blumingtonskoy shchkoly” i perspektivy razvitiya sovremennogo neoinstitutsionalizma [Methodological Opportunities of the ‘Bloomington School’ and Perspectives of Contemporary New Institutionalism
(Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 2014, XVIII, 1, 98-112, 2014) Barbashin, Maksim
This article analyzes institutional processes involved in the development of the Bloomington School. Such processes are closely connected to the conceptual and methodological heritage of Elinor Ostrom, and her colleagues and students. The author underlines the importance of a new institutional methodology in contemporary economic thought, in studies of social dilemmas, common-pool resources, collective actions and identity. In the author’s opinion, by using new institutional methodology, studies at the Bloomington School have attempted to solve the problem of stable socio-economic development of traditional societies. The article suggests that future development of the Bloomington School depends on further defining social dilemmas and common-pool resources, studies of institutional stability and disintegration and transformations of institutions from dynamic equilibrium with positive nested externalities to dynamic non-equilibrium
Optimalnye institutsionalnye strategii i identichnost v usloviyah neopredelennosti sotsialnyh dilemma (na primere binarnyh igr) [The Optimal Institutional Strategies and Identity in Uncertainty of Social Dilemmas: Binary Games]
(Journal of Institutional Studies, 6(4), 116-136., 2014) Barbashin, Maksim
In this article, optimal institutional strategies of social agents in game uncertainty, and in models of matching and marriage are analyzed. The author believes that game theory analyzes the “inner” rationality of individual interactions. Game theory aggregates a lot of social interactions to some choices, and analyzes uncertainty of behavioral variants as an understandable and stable pattern of regular interactions. The author concludes that institutional analysis of game situations is necessary for discrening key social and cognitive challenges that social agents face in everyday life. Identity construction helps social agents find solutions in social dilemmas. Therefore the analysis of game behavior should include studies of identity space.
Teoriya Institutsionalnogo Raspada: Kontseptualnyy Potentsial i Metodologicheskie Ramki [The Theory of Institutional Disintegration: Conceptual Potential and Methodological Frameworks]
(2016) Barbashin, Maksim
"The methodological opportunities and conceptual frameworks of theory of institutional disintegration developed by the author and the implication of the theory in market studies are analyzed. The problem of institutional transformation is one of the main theoretical problems in new institutionalism. The author believes that social institutions describe acceptable and unacceptable economic behavior for economic agents, and the institutional disintegration is the result of the gradual evolution of norms and rules of behavior. Institutional disintegration starts as the result of the growth of default rules. In the article, institutional exceptions are considered to be a product of institutional disintegration and the behavioral foundations of new markets. The theory explains how 'inner' transformation of rules of behavior impacts on market development and market behavior of economic agents. Analyzing the methodological advantages and problems of such approach, the author comes to the conclusions that the theory of institutional disintegration has some methodological perspectives in institutional economics and market studies."