at Laboratory of Comparative Social Research (LCSR)

The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (LCSR) studies norms and values at the international level, which includes comparing data within regions and classes in Russia as well as between Russia and other countries. It also analyzes and compares the results of different waves of World Value Survey. The key goal of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research is the evolution of quantitative comparative studies and instrumental analytical methods of large data sets in Russia.

The LCSR was established in the Higher School of Economics, a National Research University, in November 2010. The focus of the research is on comparative studies of social change – the analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal data based on World Values Survey (WVS) data. The WVS study includes about 100 countries all over the world. The participants in this project are numerous research centers and scientists across the globe. The academic supervisor of the LCSR, Ronald F. Inglehart is also the founder and the president of the World Value Survey organization during 1988-2013. Christian Welzel, an LCSR professor, is President (emer.) and Vice-President of World Values Survey Association, Stockholm (Sweden).

My talks at LCSR in Russia:

“Marketization and Prejudice Toward the Unprofitable: An Application of Institutional Anomie Theory“, (held on April, 11th 2018 at the 8th International Workshop “Quantitative Research of Social Changes Across the World“ of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research in Moscow, Russia.) 

“Progress Report on: Institutions and Marketized Mentality – a Multilevel Analysis of Institutional Anomie Theory Assumptions”, (held at the 4th International Conference on Cultural and Economic Changes in Cross-National Perspective of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research on November, 11th 2014 in St. Petersburg, Russia.)

“Institutions and Marketized Mentality – a Multilevel Analysis of Institutional Anomie Theory Assumptions” by Hövermann/Groß, (held at the 4th International Workshop on Social and Cultural Changes in Cross-National Perspective: Values and Modernization of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research on March 28th, 2014 in Moscow, Russia.)