Nikita E. Pokrovsky Members of the BoardDoctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of General Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences, National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (Moscow, Russia)One of the followers and developers of popular sociology as a wide range program for improving sociological culture and sociological education in the society. The main spheres of his research are the history of American social philosophy of the early period, American transcendentalism, the problem of loneliness in the history of philosophy and theoretical sociology, modern American social theory and sociology. He is the author of sociological concept of cellular globalization. This is a process of finding out the matrix of globalization in society’s basics, in everyday life patterns. He actively develops distance forms of teaching sociology connecting sociological faculties all around Russia and abroad. He leads the Ugory Project – multidisciplinary research of rural areas modernization in Russian North.Profiles:Reseacherid: L-3249-2015Scopus AuthorID: 6506836010elibrary AuthorId: 1393E-mail: nikita1951@yahoo.comMoreback