Born in 1962.

1984 — Degree, Mathematicics, Saratov Chernyshevsky State University.

1989 — Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Philosophical Sciences, Saratov Chernyshevsky State University.

1997 — Doctor of Sciences (PhD) in Sociology of Culture, Saratov State Technical University.

In 1991–1999 — Associate Professor of Social Work at the Saratov State Technical University.

Since 1999 — Professor at Saratov State Technical University.

2004–2007 — Lecturer at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences.

Since 2008 — Professor at the Department of General Sociology, HSE.

Lives in Moscow.