INSTITUTE FOR RETRAINING AND IMPROVEMENT OF TEACHERS’ PROFICIENCY IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Founded in 1966.

160 Pushkinskaya St., Rostov-on-Don, Russia 344006

The Institute, is one of the leading centres for the retraining and improvement of researchers and teachers in Humanities and Social Sciences in Russia.

Director VOLKOV, Yuri Grigorievich, D.S. in Philosophy, Prof.

Tel. 65-34-63

Vice-Director for Academic Affairs GATASHOV, Vassili Vassilievich, Cand.S. in History, Assoc.Prof.

Tel. 65-36-59

Vice-Director for Research MOSTOVAYA, Irina Vladimirovna, D.S. in Sociology

Tel.65-33-10

Vice-Director for Continuous Education LUBSKY, Anatoli Vladimirovich, Cand.S. in History, Assoc.Prof.

Tel.65-47-22

Deputy-Director YEROKHIN, Nikolai Yefimovich

Tel.65-37-35

Staff: 12 members, including 6 with D.S. and 6 with Cand.S. degrees.

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY

Chair - VOLKOV, Yuri Grigogievich, D.S. in Philosophy, Prof.

Tel. 65-33-10

Department’s main areas of research:

methodological problems of social cognition; methodological problems of political science methodological problems of sociology; ideology of humanism; sociology of personality social relations and social structure; social stratification and mobility;

VOLKOV Yu.G. Integral nature of human personality; personality and humanism.

MOSTOVAYA I.V., D.S. in Sociology. Social stratification and mobility in modern Russia; methodological problems of modern sociology.

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

Chair - MATYASH, Tamara Petrovna, D.S. in Philosophy, Prof.

Tel. 65-31-19

Department’s main areas of research:

philosophical anthropology; problems of philosophical consciousness; philosophical humanism; theory of culture

DAVYDOVICH V.Ye., D.S. in Philosophy, Prof. Problems of philosophical humanism: theory and culture; the concept of an ideal.

MATYASH T.P. Problems of con-sciousness, rationality in modern culture; man in orthodox culture.

VATIN I.V., D.S. in Philosophy, Prof. Problems of consciousness; man as a subject; methodology of scientific cognition.

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC THEORY

Chair - BELOUSOV, Vitaliy Mikhailovich, D.S. in Economics, Prof.

Tel. 64-47-66

Department’s main areas of research:

the role of an individual in the process of Russia’s transition to market economy.

BELOUSOV V.M. Theory of demand; social problems connected with market transformations; humans and economics.

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Chair - GATASHOV, Vassili Vassilievich, Cand.S. in History, Assoc.Prof.

Tel. 64-31-63.

Department’s main areas of research:

political and socio-economic processes in Russia in 19th- 20th centuries.