AUCA Professor and her students collaborated on sociology research project with Otto-von-Guericke-University in Germany

May 22, 2015

Chair of General Education Department and professor of Sociology Department at AUCA, Galina Gorborukova, contributed to the publication of a research “When salary is not Enough… Private Households in Central Asia”. The book presents a cross-country, rural-urban comparison in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan based on secondary data and quantitative and qualitative primary research.

The research focuses on households of the middle and lower middle income classes, their problems as well as their strategies to make a living. Have they been affected by modernization and urbanization? Are households nowadays closed systems of the nuclear family type? Or are they embedded in larger networks, obtaining resource flows from outside and/or providing resources to others.

Galina Gorborukova made an analysis of the socio-economic situation in Kyrgyzstan presented in this publication. “When salary is not Enough….” Private Households in Central Asia is a collaborative work between different institutions: L. N. Gumilev Eurasian National University in Astana, Al-Farabi University in Almaty, American University of Central Asia in Bishkek and Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg. The book was published in Germany.

“Our students (now – graduates) Vasilii Lakhonin, Malika Baiazova, Shirin Tumenbaeva, Zarena Syrgak Kyzy, Gulzira Kamytzhanova, Irina Shlapatskaia, Anastasia Danishina, and Sevara Khaldarova of Sociology Department took part in this project collecting quantitative and qualitative data. They also received a training to use a special program called MAXQDA for analyzing qualitative data.

This year I am planning to conduct joined research with the University of Montreal on identity and social changes, where I will certainly again involve sociology students”, - Gorborukova says.

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