Lev Gudkov
| Lev Gudkov | |
|---|---|
Lev Gudkov at "The Ways of Russia" conference in Moscow, 26 January 2009.
|
|
| Born |
December 6, 1946 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Residence | Russia |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Alma mater | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
Lev Dmitrievich Gudkov (Russian: Лев Дмитриевич Гудков; 6 December 1946 in Moscow) is a Russian sociologist, director of the analytical Levada Center and editor-in-chief of the journal The Russian Public Opinion Herald.
Gudkov studied journalism, sociology and philology at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and graduated in 1971. He continued his post-graduate studies at the Institute for philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences until 1977. His dissertation concerned the Max Weber's concept of the methodology of social sciences and the German tradition of the understanding sociology. In 1995 Gudkov did his doctor in philosophy.
From 1970 to 1973 he worked for the department of methodology of researching social processes at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In the following four years until 1977, Gudkov was an employee of the department of philosophy and sociology at the Institute for scientific Information on social studies which belongs to the Russian Academy of Sciences.
From 1977 to 1984 he was a senior researcher of the Sociology Department at the Russian State Library.
Between 1984 and 1986 he worked as one of the leading scientific employees at the Sociology Department of the Design Research Institute (VNIIITE).
In the following two years until 1988, Gudkov was the senior scientific employee of the All-Union book chamber.
In 1988 Gudkov started working for VCIOM, and became one of the leading scientists of the research center after a short while. Three years later in 1991, Gudkov was made the head of the theory- and later the sociopolitical department of researches at VCIOM.
Gudkov participated in all research projects at VCIOM during the period when the centre was administrated by Yuri Levada, such as
When in 2003 internal problems appeared at VCIOM, Gudkov left the organization together with Yuri Levada and the majority of employees to work for Yuri Levada's newly founded Analytical centre (Levada Center).
...
Wikipedia