Corporate Identity of National University Lecturers at the end of the XIX - the beginning of the XXI century: the Study Concept

University faculty is a special social category of Russian society. Despite being a relatively sparse group, even from the XIX century, it played a significant part in the life of the country and often was a marker of the social and political processes occurring in Russia. Studying the evolution of teaching staffs corporate identity is critical as application of research approaches offered by this theory provides answers to the questions concerning academic professors' self-identification, university corporate culture formation,university professor's behavioral patterns in different circumstances. The project proposes the research into : - the characteristics of Russian (Soviet) university professor's corporate identity formation in pre-revoluionary, Soviet and post- Soviet periods; - the forms of identity manifestation in different periods; - the crises of academic teaching community representatives' corporate identity; - the transformation of corporate identity at the end of eras: after the years1917 and 1991; - 'levels of identity': the correlation between a person and an institution (university professors), specialists (physicists, doctors), and the whole community (teaching staff). One can mention the diversity of research works dedicated to corporate identity, but they mostly focus on the contemporary state of the issue and are created within social studies, pedagogical and psychological approaches. The novelty of the proposed project research is in the examination of the issue of academic teaching staff's corporate identity in historic retrospective with the use of cutting edge research methods. The research into Russian university professors' corporate identity lies at the confluence of anthropology, social studies, psychology, pedagogy; it is interdisciplinary in its nature. The 'social' approach, the biographical and prosopographical methods, the method of free self-description will be applied. The analysis of the professor's identity in the Soviet (from the 1960th till the 1970th) and post-Soviet periods stipulates the application of social studies methods: surveys and in-depth interviews with living representatives of the Russian university teaching community. The research will be based on the published (laws and regulations by Ministry of Public Instruction, People's Commissariat of Education, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian/ Soviet government) and unpublished sources (archive recordings including documents of universities), periodical press materials, sources of personal origin (diaries, letters, memoirs). The accomplishment of the goals set will allow reconstruct the peculiarities of Russian (Soviet) university professor's corporate identity formation in pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post- Soviet periods, the forms of identity manifestation in different periods, the mechanisms of crisis management for academic teaching community representatives' corporate identity, identity levels.

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