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This article aims to present regret, an emotion to which sociologists so far have paid little attention, as having great sociological significance. First, it reviews recent research in social psychology and economics which cast anticipated regret as playing a major role in human decision-making. Second, it suggests a regret-based interpretation of the sunk-cost fallacy. Such an interpretation points to the need of a specifically sociological perspective on regret, calling attention to the cultural and institutional framings of regret-arousing events. The article further argues that secular changes in the types of regret imposed on individuals are paralleled by the spread of various forms of coping with it and that anticipated regret is responsible for both commitment to a chosen life-course and for sudden changes in it. The article ends with discussing the relationship between instrumental and moral regret, as well as the general implications of regret as a phenomenon for sociological understanding of rationality and human action.

For decades Soviet and later post-Soviet sociology was dominated by a cohort of scholars bornbetween 1927–1930 (Grushin, Kon, Levada, Ossipov, Yadov, Zaslavskaya). The origins of theirprominence and the character of their recognition offers a puzzle as it seemingly defiesconventional ideas about where academic renown comes from. Academic prominence is usuallyassociated with either intellectual leadership or skillful manipulation of the academic powerstructures. Neither of these stories describes the peculiar pattern of recognition of the giants ofSoviet sociology whose fame persisted after they retired from administrative responsibilities and inspite of their ideas from the Soviet era being almost forgotten. The hypothesis developed in thispaper holds that this peculiar form of fame emerges from the unique position sociology held inSoviet society. The paper introduces a distinction between natural and intentional secrecy andargues that while most of Western sociology specialized in natural secrecy, Soviet sociology had todeal with intentional secrecy resulting from conscious attempts to conceal the dismal realities ofstate socialism. The pervasiveness of secrecy during the Soviet era resulted from the centrallegitimizing myth of Soviet society describing it as built following a scientifically devised plan. Thislegitimation allowed Soviet sociology to emerge and develop with an unparalleled speed, but, at thesame time, it explains why sociology was seen as having considerable subversive potential andfaced periodic repressions. This political environment accounts for Soviet sociology's uniqueintellectual style as well as for the fact that its central figures remained in the disciplinary memoryas heroic role models, rather than as authors of exemplary texts.

For decades Soviet and later post-Soviet sociology was dominated by a cohort of scholars bornbetween 1927–1930 (Grushin, Kon, Levada, Ossipov, Yadov, Zaslavskaya). The origins of theirprominence and the character of their recognition offers a puzzle as it seemingly defiesconventional ideas about where academic renown comes from. Academic prominence is usuallyassociated with either intellectual leadership or skillful manipulation of the academic powerstructures. Neither of these stories describes the peculiar pattern of recognition of the giants ofSoviet sociology whose fame persisted after they retired from administrative responsibilities and inspite of their ideas from the Soviet era being almost forgotten. The hypothesis developed in thispaper holds that this peculiar form of fame emerges from the unique position sociology held inSoviet society. The paper introduces a distinction between natural and intentional secrecy andargues that while most of Western sociology specialized in natural secrecy, Soviet sociology had todeal with intentional secrecy resulting from conscious attempts to conceal the dismal realities ofstate socialism. The pervasiveness of secrecy during the Soviet era resulted from the centrallegitimizing myth of Soviet society describing it as built following a scientifically devised plan. Thislegitimation allowed Soviet sociology to emerge and develop with an unparalleled speed, but, at thesame time, it explains why sociology was seen as having considerable subversive potential andfaced periodic repressions. This political environment accounts for Soviet sociology's uniqueintellectual style as well as for the fact that its central figures remained in the disciplinary memoryas heroic role models, rather than as authors of exemplary texts.

Der Beitrag zeichnet am Beispiel Russland die lokalen Entstehungsbedingungen für die globale Ausbreitung der Neuen Rechten (NR) nach. Die Ausführungen basieren auf statistischem Datenmaterial, gewonnen durch teilnehmende Beobachtung, Interviews sowie Diskurs- und Ereignisanalysen im Zeitraum 1998 bis 2003. In einem ersten Schritt wird das Netzwerk der russischen NR in seinen Grundzügen beschrieben. Der zweite Schritt geht sodann der Frage nach, inwieweit hier eine allgemeine Intellektualisierung der Politik durch die NR stattfindet. Die Beantwortung orientiert sich insbesondere an den Ideologietheorien von P. Bourdieu und R. Boudon. Obwohl die formulierten Interpretationen nur auf der Analyse der russischen Fallstudie beruhen, passen sie recht gut auch zu den Vergleichsdaten zur Entwicklung der NR-Netzwerke in Deutschland und Frankreich. Es scheint so, als würde sich die NR besonders kräftig in den Ländern mit großen staatlichen Universitäten entwickeln - und zwar während des Jahrzehnts nach großen Hochschulreformen. (ICG2)

Der Beitrag zeichnet am Beispiel Russland die lokalen Entstehungsbedingungen für die globale Ausbreitung der Neuen Rechten (NR) nach. Die Ausführungen basieren auf statistischem Datenmaterial, gewonnen durch teilnehmende Beobachtung, Interviews sowie Diskurs- und Ereignisanalysen im Zeitraum 1998 bis 2003. In einem ersten Schritt wird das Netzwerk der russischen NR in seinen Grundzügen beschrieben. Der zweite Schritt geht sodann der Frage nach, inwieweit hier eine allgemeine Intellektualisierung der Politik durch die NR stattfindet. Die Beantwortung orientiert sich insbesondere an den Ideologietheorien von P. Bourdieu und R. Boudon. Obwohl die formulierten Interpretationen nur auf der Analyse der russischen Fallstudie beruhen, passen sie recht gut auch zu den Vergleichsdaten zur Entwicklung der NR-Netzwerke in Deutschland und Frankreich. Es scheint so, als würde sich die NR besonders kräftig in den Ländern mit großen staatlichen Universitäten entwickeln - und zwar während des Jahrzehnts nach großen Hochschulreformen. (ICG2). Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1998 bis 2003.

This publication is a reprint of a study by the now deceased M.N. Sokolov in a collection of articles dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of I.E.Danilova as Deputy Director for research of the A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts [Sokolov 1997, pp. 22–23]. It is not a memoir about a late senior colleague, but rather a dithyramb addressed to the still living and active leader of the Museum's academic life and its human community. M.N. Sokolov managed to outline in a short witty essay the main features of I.E. Danilova as a researcher and as a human being.