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Research Result. Social Studies and Humanities

Volume 12, Issue №1, 2026
RESEARCHES

Protomediality as a source of the public sphere

The research problem lies in the insufficient development of the concept of protomediality – a phenomenon that connects material forms of dwelling with the emergence of the public sphere. The relevance ...

Grand narratives, network society, digital hyperreality: the transformation of ideological architecture

This article examines how ideological discourse has changed in the context of digital civilisation and the networked organisation of modern society. The relevance of the study is determined by the ...

Poliosphere: The Theory of Political Consciousness as Self-Organizing Cognitive Systems

The article proposes an innovative concept of the “poliosphere” – a cognitive environment where political ideologies are considered as self-organizing systems possessing their own agency. The author, drawing on an interdisciplinary ...

A Stranger, with us and for us: Rice in Serbian national identity (reflections on the book by Uroš V. Šuvaković “R. A. Rice. Neutrality is impossible in the face of crime”)

This article analyzes the figure of Rudolf Archibald Reiss within Serbian national self-consciousness through a critical examination of Uroš V. Šuvaković’s monograph “R. A. Reiss. Neutrality Is Impossible in the ...

Semantic and historical halos of doubling: from souls, shadows, and reflections to the AI-twin

The article examines the phenomenon of doubling in its historical and semantic dynamics – from archaic conceptions of the multiplicity of the soul to contemporary technotronic forms of digital twins. ...

Revision and interpretation of mythology in the God of War video game series: a religious studies analysis

The article explores how mythology persists in secular mass culture and how video games become a space of contemporary mythmaking. Drawing on the God of War franchise (2005-2022), it analyzes ...

Anatomy of addiction: The functional role of occupational stigma  in managing collective anxiety

This article investigates the affective and structural determinants underlying the low status of critical infrastructure professions. Drawing on historical data (specifically the role of sanitation in the demographic transition) and ...

Hermeneutic Foundations for Solving Equations and Their Systems

This article addresses issues related to schoolchildren's ability to solve different types of equations. It emphasises the importance of understanding the origins of algorithms and rules for solving equations, rather ...

Subject of legal hermeneutics: to the anthropological experience of 19th-20th century Russian philosophy

This article examines the subject of legal hermeneutics in the context of Russian anthropology. The study aims to overcome the narrowly technical approach to the interpretation of law by addressing ...

On the question of the place and significance of N. N. Glubokovsky in the Russian hermeneutic tradition

This article examines N.N. Glubokovsky's theological hermeneutics in the context of a historical era similar to our own time of intellectual unrest. N.N. Glubokovsky exemplifies intellectual and spiritual freedom, self-determination ...

The semantic contours of the personality of A.A. Grigoriev in the dramaturgy of P.D. Boborykin ("The Sorrowful Brethren")

The study of A.A. Grigoriev's intellectual legacy faces a fundamental methodological challenge: his proclaimed method of "organic criticism" conflicts with his own improvisational, intuitive, and creative practice, complicating historical and philosophical ...

Soviet animated films about the Town Musicians of Bremen as guides of hippie culture in the USSR

The article focuses on two Soviet animated films – “The Town Musicians of Bremen” (1969) and “On the Trail of the Town Musicians of Bremen” (1973), which are seen as cultural guides for ...

Evolution of public catering institutions in the USSR (1920s-1930s): key issues of everyday life
 

The article examines the evolution of public catering institutions in the USSR during the 1920s-1930s as a core element of Soviet alimentary culture and socialist everyday life. The relevance of ...

Blood as an element of the sacralization of violence in the sacrificial rites of ancient cultures
 

This article analyzes the significance and symbolism of blood in sacrificial rites across various ancient cultures. It examines how blood functioned in sacrificial rites and the significance it was attached ...
ARCHIVE

Features of church construction on the Southern Russian borders in a Wild Field (example of the Orel district)
 

The article reveals the problem of the construction of temple buildings in the border areas of the Russian state in a Wild Field in the XVI century. The problem has ...
MISCCELLANEOUS: MESSAGES, DISCUSSIONS, REVIEWS

About opera in the context of the cultural confrontation of the Renaissance. Review of the book by E. Muir "Cultural Wars of the Late Renaissance: skeptics, libertines and opera" (St. Petersburg, 2025)

Edward Muir's book offers an original and fairly accurate look at the intellectual history of the late Renaissance, built around a specific conflict of cultural, religious, and socio-political regimes in ...

"Memory of the color of sadness" (towards a reconstruction of the life and works of V.Y. Eroshenko in Japan and China)

The life and work of Vasily Eroshenko, a renowned Russian cultural figure of the first half of the 20th century, are examined from the perspective of Oriental studies, focusing on ...

A Precious Box: The Early Life and Worldview of Russian Polar Navigators and Explorers
in E.A. Okladnikova's monograph "The Taimyr Find" (St. Petersburg, 2025)

This article explores the recently published monograph “The Taimyr Find” by the renowned Russian historian, archaeologist and social anthropologist E. A. Okladnikova. The article factually explains and explores the epistemological ...