This is to let you know that Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (HSE) announces a call for the 5th LCSR International Workshop “Social and Cultural changes in cross-national perspective: Subjective Well-being, Trust, Social capital and Values” which will be held within the XVI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development of the National Research University Higher School of Economics on April 6 – April 10, 2015 in Moscow.

Please follow this link for full details: socialcapitalgateway.org/lcsr2015

The workshop aims at developing empirical quantitative comparative (cross-country and cross-regional) studies in social science.

The conference topics are:

• Subjective Well-Being and Social Capital
• Trust and Social Capital
• Norms, Values and Value Change
• Informal relations and Corruption
• Precarious Work and Subjective Well-being

Participation at the workshop is possible via entering the LCSR research network. The main purpose of the research network is to attract young scholars to work on their own projects under the guidance of the LCSR experts (Ronald Inglehart,  Eduard Ponarin,  Christian Welzel). The application  deadline  for entering the network is January 15, 2015. The notification of acceptance will be given by February 1.

LCSR provides accommodation at HSE Guest House and cover travel expenses only for selected speakers.

Best regards,
Fabio Sabatini
socialcapitalgateway.org/editor