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O. A. Karmadonov

 

 

 

Dr OLEG KARMADONOV

 

Irkutsk, Russia
Phone: +7(3952) 526-137 (h),

+7(3952) 200-137 (w)

Fax: +7(3952) 200-205

E-mail: karmado@yandex.ru

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

2013 – Present

 

Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Irkutsk State University (ISU), the Department of Public Administration at the ISU, Irkutsk, Russia

 

  • Supervise the scientific work of the Institute’s staff, and perform a variety of administrative and teaching duties
  • Teach classes: “Sociology in a Changing World”, “Social Theory”, “Survey Methods and Data Analysis in Public Administration”
  • Teach special courses for post-graduate students: “Symbol in Society, and in Social Analysis”, “Social Integration and Social Reproduction”
  • Advise and direct student’s class schedules and research projects
  • 80 published works, including seven monographs, three edited volumes, and twenty three articles in the internationally refereed academic journals
  • Area of expertise includes: social theory, policy analysis, social solidarity and identity construction, political sociology, sociology of education, psychology of social transformation, sociology of symbolic forms, social stratification

 

2003 – 2013

 

Professor, Head of the Department of Public Administration, Institute of Social Sciences, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia

 

 

 

2001 - 2003

 

Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology, Irkutsk State University

 

 

 

1994 - 2001

 

Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology, Irkutsk State Technical University

 

EDUCATION:

 

Irkutsk State University Doctor of Sciences in Social Philosophy (“Symbol as an Object of Social Analysis”), 2004

 

Irkutsk State University PhD in Sociology (“The Social Function of a Symbol”), 1997

 

Irkutsk State University with Honors in Modern History, 1994

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENT:

 

Budapest, Central European University, the Curriculum Resource Center’s workshops in Course Design, Teaching Methodology, Curriculum Development, and Course and Faculty Evaluation, 2012

 

Budapest, Central European University, the Curriculum Resource Center’s session on “Cultural Policies in a Globalized World”, 2011

 

Moscow, Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Workshop “Strategies of Regional Development”, 2007

 

Budapest, Open Society Institute, Center for Policy Studies, Series of Methodological Seminars on “The Problems of Social Policy in Changing Societies”, 2002 –2003

 

Vienna, Center for Higher Education Research and Information at the Open University (UK), Association of the Commonwealth's Universities, Methodological Seminar “The Role of Higher Education in Social Transformations”, 2002

 

Moscow, Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Trainee, Certificate, 2001

 

Warsaw, Central-European University, the Curriculum Resource Center’s session on “Sociology in Transition Societies”, 2000

 

Budapest, Summer Methodological University, Central European University Certificate, Political Sociology (the course “Conflict Transformation: The Transcend Approach”), 1999

 

St Petersburg, Winter Methodological University Certificate, Social Psychology, 1998

 

Yaroslavl, Summer Methodological University Certificate, Cultural Anthropology, 1997

 

 

 

RESEARCH GRANTS:

 

  1. Grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, research project: “Social Integration and Social Reproduction of the Contemporary Russian Society”, 2014-2016
  2. Grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, research project: “The Resources of Consolidation of Russian Society: An Institutional Analysis”, 2010-2012
  3. Fellowship from the Fulbright / Kennan Program (The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC), research project: “Social Contract and Social Corruption: The Specifics of a ‘New Social Partnership’ in Today’s Russia and the United States”, 2010
  4. Grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, research project: “Social Change as the Transformation of Symbolic Forms”, 2009-2011
  5. Grant from the Course Development Competition Program of the Curriculum Resource Center of the Central European University (Budapest), “The Reproduction of Cultural Intangibles in Contemporary Society”, 2008
  6. Grant from the Spencer Foundation (USA), research project: “From the Middle School to University: The Postsecondary Access, Equity, and Social Opportunities in Today’s Russia”, 2007
  7. Grant from the Russian Foundation for Humanities, research project: “Higher Education and Problems of Socialization in Modern Societies”, 2006
  8. Grant from the Center for Advanced Studies and Education, and Carnegie Corporation of New York, research project: “The Universities of Siberia and Ural on the Global Educational Market: Prospects and Chances”, 2005
  9. Grant from the Russian Foundation for Humanities, publication project: “The Sociology of Symbol” (monograph), 2004  
  10. Fellowship from the Fulbright Scholar Program (Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD), research project: “From the Toleration Act and Social Gospel to Modernity: An Evolution of Religious Environment in America”, 2002-2003
  11. Fellowship from the Open Society Institute, Center for Policy Studies (International Policy Fellowship), research project: “Role of Universities in a Construction of New Social Realities”, 2002
  12. Grant from the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, research project: “Transformation of Symbolic Forms in Changing Societies: Phenomenology of Social Dynamics”, 2001
  13. Fellowship from the United States Information Agency (USIA) and International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) (University of Nebraska, Omaha), research project: “Freedom of Religion, Democracy, and Democratization: Problems and Perspectives”, 1999
  14. Grant from the Russian Foundation for Humanities, research project: “Trans-Symbolic Basis for a Study of Human”, 1998
  15. Grant from the Open Society Institute, the teaching courses’ competition winner, “Ethnic Psychology”, 1998

 

Member of the Russian Sociological Society, and American Sociological Association.

 

Russian – native, English – fluent.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:  

 

Monographs:

 

  1. Karmadonov, O. The Power and Consensus: the Discursive-Symbolic Analysis of a Conjunctive Role of Russian Elite. - Irkutsk: ISU Press, 2015. ISBN 978-5-9624-1295-5
  2. Karmadonov, O. Resisto Ergo Sum: The Structure and Meaning of Social Opposition. – Irkutsk: ISU Press, 2013. ISBN 978-5-9624-0804-0 (Library of Congress Control Number: 2014391594)
  3. Karmadonov, O. Social Mood and Integration of Society. – Irkutsk: ISU Press, 2013. ISBN 978-5-9624-0833-0
  4. Karmadonov, O. [et al.] Symbol and Transformation: The Social Meanings of Russian Society in the Age of Change. – Irkutsk: ISU Press, 2012. ISBN 978-5-9624-0610-7 (Library of Congress Control Number: 2013472905)
  5. Karmadonov, O. Consolidation of Russian Society: The Streams and the Obstacles. – Irkutsk: ISU Press, 2012. ISBN 978-5-9624-0575-9
  6. Karmadonov, O. Transformation and Adaptation: The Strategies of Survival in a Crisis Society. – Irkutsk: ISU Press, 2009. ISBN 978-5-9624-0348-9 (Library of Congress Control Number: 2009467971)
  7. Karmadonov, O. Sociology of the Symbol. – Moscow: Academia, 2004. ISBN 5-87444-212-x (Library of Congress Control Number: 2005398522)

 

Edited volumes:

 

  1. Karmadonov, O. (ed.) Culture and Burst: The Social Meanings in a Transforming Society. – Irkutsk: ISU Press, 2011. (Library of Congress Control Number: 2012416513)
  2. Karmadonov, O. (ed.) Development of Social Systems as a Problem of Management. – Irkutsk: ISU Press, 2009. (Library of Congress Control Number: 2010495313)
  3. Karmadonov, O. (ed.) Russian Society in a Dialectics of Social Antinomies. – Irkutsk: ISU Press, 2008. (Library of Congress Control Number: 2009670693)

 

Articles in the internationally refereed journals (most can be retrieved via the East View Universal Database platform):

 

  1. Karmadonov, O. Solidarity, Integration, Conjunction // Sotsiologitcheskie Issledovania (Sociological Studies), 2015, 2.
  2. Karmadonov, O. The Non-Formal Social Opposition: Its Universal Meaning and Russian Specifics // Sotsiologitcheskie Issledovania (Sociological Studies), 2014, 8. (Persistent URL: http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/42179757)

 

  1. Karmadonov, O. Socialization of Young Students: the Fostering Function of the Institute of Education and Social Reality // Alma Mater, 2012, 10. (Persistent URL: http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/28124692)
  2. Karmadonov, O. The Norms and Empathy as the Factors of Social Change// Sotsiologitcheskie Issledovania (Sociological Studies), 2012, 4. (Persistent URL: http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/27221515)
  3. Karmadonov, O. Social Corruption as an Institutional Environment// Sotsialno-Gumanitarnye Znania (Social and Humanitarian Knowledge), 2011, 6.
  4. Karmadonov, O. Social Stratification in a Discursive-Symbolic Dimension// Sotsiologitcheskie Issledovania (Sociological Studies), 2010, 6. (Persistent URL: http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/22143904)
  5. Karmadonov, O. Islam and Contemporary World // Sotsialno-Gumanitarnye Znania (Social and Humanitarian Knowledge), 2009, 6.
  6. Karmadonov, O. Sociological Rationality of Absence in a Study of Contemporary Society// Sotsiologitcheskie Issledovania (Sociological Studies), 2008, 3. (Persistent URL: http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/13784600)
  7. Karmadonov, O. An Impact of Absence: The World Civilizations in Terms of Absenteeist Rationality// Voprosy Filosofii (Issues of Philosophy), 2008, 2. (Persistent URL: http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/13588759)
  8. Karmadonov, O. Social Adaptation in Intergenerational Perspective// Sotsialno-Gumanitarnye Znania (Social and Humanitarian Knowledge), 2007, 6.
  9. Karmadonov, O. Social Memory and Socialization// Sotsiologia (Sociology), 2007, 2.
  10. Karmadonov, O. The Institute of Education in Contemporary World: The Main Tendencies// Sotsialno-Gumanitarnye Znania (Social and Humanitarian Knowledge), 2006, 6.
  11. Karmadonov, O. Symbol and Transformation: “Perestroika” as a Pathological Phenomenon// Voprosy Psykhologii (Issues of Psychology), 2006, 5.
  12. Karmadonov, O. Revelations and Paradoxes of Symbolic Interactionism// Sotsiologitcheskie Issledovania (Sociological Studies), 2006, 2. (Persistent URL: http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/9228758)
  13. Karmadonov, O. Globalization and Symbolic Power// Voprosy Filosofii (Issues of Philosophy), 2005, 5. (Persistent URL: http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/7872638)
  14. Karmadonov, O. The Transformation of Symbols and the Symbols of Transformation: A Version of One Socio-Political Suicide// Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 2005, 2.
  15. Karmadonov, O. ‘Symbol’ in Empirical Research: International Experiences// Sotsiologitcheskie Issledovania (Sociological Studies), 2004, 6. (Persistent URL: http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/6570923)
  16. Karmadonov, O. The Role and Place of Symbol in the Sociology of Talcott Parsons// Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 2004, 2.
  17. Karmadonov, O. Norbert Elias’s “Symbol Theory.”// Sotsiologitscheskiy Zhurnal (Sociological Journal), 2003, 4.
  18. Karmadonov, O. The ‘Classical’ University in Today’s Russia: A Splendor and Misery of Classicism// Sotsialno-Gumanitarnye Znania (Social and Humanitarian Knowledge), 2003, 1.
  19. Karmadonov, O. Some Features of American Religiosity: An Experience of Sociological Analysis// Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 2002, 4.
  20. Karmadonov, O. Social Deviation as a Factual Value and Normative Model// Sotsialno-Gumanitarnye Znania (Social and Humanitarian Knowledge), 2001, 2.
  21. Karmadonov, O. Prestige and Pathos as the Life Strategies of a Socioeconomic Group// Sotsiologitcheskie Issledovania (Sociological Studies), 2001, 1. (Persistent URL: http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/1966936)
  22. Karmadonov, O. The Political Space’s Semantics: An Experience of Cross-Cultural Trans-Symbolic Analysis// Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology. 1998, V.I., 4.

 

Papers:

 

  1. Karmadonov, O. “ICT and Social Inclusion: An Impact of New Technologies on Access and Equity in Postsecondary Education in Today's Russia”. Proceedings of the Conference “E-learning and Multicultural Education: Digital Divide and Digital Opportunities”. Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi”, Rome, Italy, May 15-16, 2008.
  2. Karmadonov, O. The Socio-Epistemological Strategies of Survival in a Transition Society. The Case of Russia. “Emotions”, the Eighth Annual Conference on Psychoanalysis and Social Change, the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 25-27, 2002.
  3. Karmadonov, O. The Problem of Deprivation and Inequality of Access to the Higher Education in the Russian Federation. – Final Report on the CPS International Policy Fellowship Program, 2002// http://pdc.ceu.hu/archive/00001757/01/karmadonov.pdf
  4. Karmadonov, O. The Dichotomy of Thinking Intentions. ΠΑΙΔΕΑ. Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Section “Theory of Knowledge”. Boston, Massachusetts, USA, August 10-15, 1998.