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Viktor Vakhstayn

Viktor Vakhstayn is a Russian-Israeli sociologist who works on social theory, microsociology, frame theory and actor-network theory.

born 1981Sociology of everyday lifeFrame theory researchMicrosociology and actor-network theory

Born: 23 January 1981, Penza
Occupation: sociologist
Education: Penza Pedagogical Institute named after V. G. Belinsky, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, University of Manchester

Viktor Vakhstayn was born in 1981 in Penza

Viktor Vakhstayn was born on January 23, 1981, in Penza, in the Soviet Union. He grew up in a Jewish family of journalists.

He finished a psychology degree in Penza in 2002 and then moved to Moscow. In 2003 he earned a master's degree in sociology at the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences and completed the same program at the University of Manchester. In 2007 he received a Candidate of Sciences degree in sociology from the Higher School of Economics, with a thesis on frame theory and everyday life.

He began teaching at the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences in 2005 and later headed its Faculty of Social Studies. He was also a dean and department head at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. In 2011 he published a book on the sociology of everyday life and frame theory, and a popular science book of his was nominated for the Prosvetitel prize in 2015.

He left Russia and settled in Israel. In 2022 Russia listed him as a foreign agent. He is a researcher at Ariel University and at the Center for Russian Studies at Tel Aviv University.