Department Chair: Andrey R. Tuzikov

Address: Building "D" – 12 Sibirskiy Trakt str., Kazan.
E-mail: guis@kstu.ru
Phone: +7(843)231-40-61, +7 (843) 231-41-14

Working hours:
Mon-Fri: from 8:00 to 17:00.

History

The Department was established in 1995. The first Department chair was doctor of historical sciences, Professor Raphael S. Zeitlin.

Academics

The Department offers the following educational programs:

Bachelor’s Degree Programs:

• 38.03.04 State and Municipal Management;
• 39.03.01 Sociology;
• 41.03.06 Public Policy and Social Sciences.

Master’s Degree Programs:

• 38.04.04 State and Municipal Management;
• 39.04.01 Sociology.

Postgraduate Programs:

• 22.00.04 (Social Structure, Processes and Institutions);
• 22.00.06 (Sociology of Culture).

Research Activities

The Department performs research in the following areas:

• Ideological Processes and Technologies of Mass Communication in Modern Russian Society;
• Problems of Sustainable Development, Sociology of Students, and Youth Policy (Professor A.R. Tuzikov, Associate Professor S.A. Alekseev);
• Institutions of Innovative Development and Sociology of Higher Education (Professor A.R. Tuzikov, Professor L.A. Burganova);
• Political Transformation and Modernization in Post-Soviet Russia (Professor A.G. Vorzhetsov, Associate Professor Y.N. Solova, Associate Professor I.M. Nastiavin);
• Investment Attractiveness of the Region (Associate Professor V.G. Ignatiev);
• State Management and Local Self-Government within Country Modernization (Professor K.S. Idiatullina, N.N. Natapova);
• Methodological and Theoretical Problems in Sociology Management (Professor L.A. Burganova, Associate Professor P.A. Kornilov);
• Innovative Human Capital (Associate Professor I.Z. Garafiev, Associate Professor L.I. Gatina, Associate Professor Y.A. Vafina);
• Social Problems of Higher Education Digitalization (Professor L.A. Burganova, Associate Professor Z.H. Sergeeva, Associate Professor S.A. Alekseev, Associate Professor Y.A. Vafina, Associate Professor A.M. Idiatullina);
• Socio-Cultural Aspects of Higher Education History (Professor O.N. Korshunova, Professor A.Yu. Suslov, Associate Professor Sh.S. Khammatov, Associate Professor M.V. Salimgarayev);
• Problems in Interpreting Historical Memory of the Second World War (Professor A. Tuzikov, Professor O.N. Korshunova, Associate Professor Y.M. Polivanov);
• Universities Contribution to the Educational and Cultural Potential of the Republic of Tatarstan (Professor O.N. Korshunova, Professor A.Y. Suslov, Associate Professor A.Y. Ivanov).