State budget organization of the Komi republic “Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin”.

On October 22, the methodists of the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin Alexander Kanev and Evgenia Chipsanova took part in the videoconference “Cultural platform of modern education: disciplinary approach VS cultural and artistic practices”. The videoconference was held at the Syktyvkar State University after Pitirim Sorokin and gathered scientists from Syktyvkar and Saint-Petersburg, who presented their vision of contemporary cultural problems of education in Russia.

On October 15-16 the Director of the Center “Nasledie” O.Y. Kuzivanova took part in the All-Russian scientific-practical conference “V Sukharevsky Readings”. Sociologists from Moscow, Saransk, Saratov, Samara, Yoskar-Ola, Ulyanovsk, and Yekaterinburg gathered in Saransk, in the Institute of Regional Studies, where the conference was held, to discuss problems of regional differentiation and consolidation of social space in Russia.

A regular meeting of the debating club at the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin took place on the 8^th of October, 2015. The topic was chosen uneasy: “Corruption in Russia: a permanent or temporary phenomenon”. Students of the Institute of History and Law Roman Shelayev and Roman Osipov and students of the Institute of Social Technologies of the Syktyvkar State University after Pitirim Sorokin Yulia Polyakova and Victoria Suntsova decided to understand this issue. Young people insisted that corruption in Russia is ineradicable, the girls argued that this phenomenon is temporary.

The regular issue of the journal “Nasledie” was released, in which the latest research of the heritage of Pitirim Sorokin were published.

The full-text version of the journal is available on the link: http://rksorokinctr.org/images/nauka/asledie_06_2015compresse.pdf

We regret to inform you that Peter Pitirimovich Sorokin, the eldest son of the famous sociologist Pitirim Sorokin, passed away.

Peter Pitirimovich, like his father, was a scientist, but in another field he was a physicist. He conducted his research in the field of lasers and received several prestigious prizes on physics.

We express our deep condolences to the family of P.P. Sorokin and his brother Sergei Pitirimovich.

The Center “Nasledie” represents the third volume of the Collected works of Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin – “Crime and Punishment, Feat and Reward”.

The full-text version of the book is available on the link: http://www.rksorokinctr.org/images/nauka/prestuplenie.pdf

As part of the monitoring the situation in the sphere of interethnic relations for 2014, the Center “Nasledie” monitored the situation in the sphere of interethnic and interconfessional relations, identifying risks and perceived conflicts for 2014. Based on the data of the sociological survey conducted in all the municipalities of the republic, the main conflict factors and the general state of interethnic relations are described.

On June 29, 2015 in Krohal V Republican youth educational forum “Innovatika: Krohal 2015” was opened. Over 5 days more than 400 participants, experts and volunteers from all cities and districts of the republic actively worked at 13 educational platforms. This year, one of the platforms of the youth forum was held under the slogan: “We are together” and was dedicated to strengthening interethnic peace and harmony in the Republic of Komi. Activities within the the framework of this program were prepared jointly by the Ministry of National Policy of the Republic of Komi, the House of Friendship of Peoples of the Komi Republic and the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin.

2015 is declared the Year of Patriotism in the Republic of Komi. The leading conceptual setting of events that fill the Year of Patriotism is the understanding of Russian patriotism as a spiritual guide and the most important resource for the development of modern Russian society.

The works of our outstanding countrymen – V.P. and V.V. Nalimov, K.F. Zhakov, P.A. Sorokin abound in beautiful ideas that do not become obsolete and can be actualized in modern times. The Komi republican institute for the development of education together with the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin is launching in 2015 a contest of creative projects among pupils and teachers “Komi Land Thinkers: reading in the new way".

We bring to your attention a note by a researcher from St. Petersburg, Marina Lomonosova, dedicated to the preparations for the elections to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly. This note reveals some points of P. Sorokin's biography, related to his role in these events. You can see the documents on the link: http://www.rksorokinctr.org/images/nauka/uchhhsobrrrr.pdf