Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Sociology of care

The article addresses the issue of accessibility of medical care for people with disabilities. Drawing on autoethnographic analysis of personal experience, the author reconstructs the system of barriers faced by patients with musculoskeletal disorders when interacting with the healthcare system. Building upon empirical data and the conceptual framework of studies on unmet health care needs, the article identifies three groups of barriers: environmental, diagnostic-therapeutic, and relational. The study demonstrates that these barriers operate in an interconnected and systemic manner, and overcoming them requires a comprehensive approach that combines infrastructural and organizational changes as well as a transformation of social attitudes among healthcare professionals at all levels — from administrative personnel to junior medical staff. 

This  article  examines  sociocultural,  technological,  staffing, and  research-related  barriers  that  hinder  the  integration  of  music-based  practices  into  the  work  of  Russian  profession-als  providing  care  for  older  adults  —  both  in  home-based  settings  and  in  medical  and  social  residential  facilities.  The  proposed classification of barriers is grounded in discussions within  the  Russian  professional  community  and  draws  upon  findings from international research. 

For  citation:  Pakosh,  M. L.,  Zaltzman,  T. V.  (2026).  Bar’ery terapevticheskogo ispol’zovaniya muzyki s pozhilymi lyud’mi [Barriers to the Therapeutic Use of Music with Older Adults]. Sotsiologiya  zaboty  [Russian  Sociology  of  Care].  Vol.  1.  No.  2. P. 55–69. (In Russ.)

This article examines the history of Soviet sociology in the 1920-1950s , as well as its interpretation and influence in subsequent decades. The author challenges the claims regarding the absence of concrete sociological research in the USSR during the 1930s –1950s , providing examples of published studies. The article proposes considering the reports of state security agencies as a valuable sociological source. These documents were based on the accounts of secret informants (secsots) and the perlustration of postal correspondence. Such observations were selective in nature during 1922-1941 and 1946–1959 but became total (comprehensive) during 1941– 1945; the perlustration of international correspondence remained total until 1969. 
From a sociological perspective, the work of secret informants can be regarded as an analog of the “participant observation” method, while perlustration effectively employed content analysis methods, including the use of special coding instructions. The surviving reports of perlustrators and censors are unique documents that reflect the state of public opinion in the USSR during the specified period. The author proposes to distinguish a special — “secret informant and perlustration” — period of research in the history of Soviet sociology.

For citation: Dymshits, M. N. (2026). Perlyustratsionnaya sovetskaya sotsiologiya 1922-1959 [Informant-Based and Mail-Tampering (Perlustration) Soviet Sociology of 1922– 1959]. Sotsiologiya zaboty [Russian Sociology of Care]. Vol. 1. No. 2. P. 73–104. (In Russ.)