Contact information

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Address: 12 Petrovka Street, office 182, Moscow, Russia, 107031

Primary activity at the CFS: Head of the Cultural Sociology Research Group

Other professional activities:

Faculty Fellow , Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University

Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy, Higher School of Economics

Lecturer, the Department of Sociology, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

Research interests:

• Social theory
• Cultural sociology
• Theory of the sacred
• Methodology of social research
• Sociology of technology
• Sociology of education

Teaching Courses:

• Theories of the sacred
• Methodology of social research
• Contemporary social theories
• Ecology

Main publications

Kurakin, Dmitry. Literature as a Meaningful Life Laboratory // Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science, 2010. Ò. 44. ¹ 3.  

Kurakin Dmitry at al. The Reality of Education and Research Realities [book]. (Realnost obrazovania I issledovatelskie realnosti. Izdatelsky dom GU-VSE, M., 2010).

Kurakin, Dmitry. Towards late-Durkheimian Program in Cultural Sociology: The “Elementary Forms” Perception in Sociological Thought (Na puti k pozdnedurkgeymianskoy programme kultursociologii: percepcia “”lementarnyh form” E. Durkgeyma v sociologicheskoy mysli // Sociologichesky zhurnal. ¹3. 2009).

Kurakin, Dmitry. Public opinion survey as an "epistemology engine": cyberpunk styled sociology (Massovye oprosy kak “epistemicheskaya mashina”: sociologia v stile “kiberpank” // Sociologicheskoe obozrenie. Tom 8. ¹3. 2009. Pp. 92-102.)

Kurakin, Dmitry. Symbolic Classifications and the “Iron Cage”: the Two Perspectives of Theoretical Sociology. (Simvolicheskije klassifikatsii I “Zheleznaya kletka”: dve perspectivi teoreticheskoy sociologii. / Sociologicheskaya teoriya: istoriya, sovremennost, perspectivi. Almanakh gurnala “Sociologicheskoye Obozrenie”, SPb, "Vladimir Dal", 2008. Pp. 537-567.)

Kurakin, Dmitry et al. Sociological research in education: from metaphor to interpretation (Sociologicheskie issledovania v obrazovanii: ot metafory k interpretacii // Voprosy obrazovania. ¹4. 2008).

Kurakin, Dmitry et al. Life-long learning development cross-regional analysis (Kross-regionalny analiz razvitiya nepreryvnogo obrazovania // Voprosy obrazovania. 2007. ¹ 2).

Kurakin, Dmitry. Metaphor Conflict or Rearguard Actions of Humboldt University. (Konflikt metaphor, ili Arjergardniye boi Gumboldtovskogo universiteta // Otechestvenniye zapiski. N.3 (30). 2006.)

Kurakin, Dmitry et al. Accessibility and Quality of General Education in Russia [book] (Dostupnost' kachestvennogo obschego obrazovanija v Rossii: vozmozhnosti i ogranichenija. M.: Logos, 2006).

Kurakin, Dmitry et al. Sociological aspects of monitoring research: methodology, methodic, practice (Sociologicheskie aspekty monitoringa: metodologia, metodika, praktika // Monitoring nepreryvnogo obrazovania: instrument upravlenia I sociologicheskie aspekty. M., MAKS-Press, 2006).