This book investigates rapid societal change in Russia during the early 1990s. The story of the anthropologist (author) and the people he studied reveals cultural similarities and differences between them. Russians and Latvians taught the author about the Soviet Union, its people, and its cultures. Formal axiology provides a novel way to access their changing values. Hartman Institute Axiology Studies (HIAS) is a scholarly project of the R.S. Hartman Institute, which is devoted to the study, development, and application of the formal axiology initiated by Robert S. Hartman. The Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) is an international scholarly program, founded in 1992 by Robert Ginsberg, that publishes philosophical books in all areas of value inquiry, including social and political thought, ethics, applied philosophy, aesthetics, feminism, pragmatism, personalism, religious values, medical and health values, values in education, values in science and technology, humanistic psychology, cognitive science, formal axiology, history of philosophy, post-communist thought, peace theory, law and society, and theory of culture.
Author(s): Gary G. Gallopin
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 384
CONTENTS......Page 8
EDITORIAL FOREWORD......Page 12
PREFACE......Page 14
One. INTRODUCTION
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Two. CONTEXT: HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE FIELDWORK......Page 32
Three. A GLIMPSE OF A DYING EMPIRE: U. S. S. R., JULY 1991......Page 62
Four. SOCIAL NETWORKS IN ACTION: RIGA, LATVIA......Page 106
Five. NEGOTIATING LIFE: LENINGRAD, RUSSIA......Page 158
Six. VALUES AND THEIR COST: RUSSIA’S HIDDEN SIDE......Page 206
Seven. THEORY AND METHOD: VALUES, AXIOLOGY, AND SOCIAL NETWORKS......Page 244
Eight. STRESS ANALYSIS: THE HVP IN THE FIELD......Page 268
Nine. VALUE ANALYSIS: THE IMPACT OF PERESTROIKA......Page 300
WORKS CITED......Page 350
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 358
INDEX......Page 360
