Rural sociology in Russia

The article, through the prism of ideas and personalities, traces a rather complex history of the formation and development of rural sociology in Russia. With a high degree of convention, this process can be divided into several periods. The pre-scientific period is represented exclusively by the collection of empirical material without its scientific understanding, the main personalities are major statesmen. The pre-revolutionary period is characterized by the first attempts of scientific, but rather philosophical, understanding of sociological data about the Russian countryside. The main merit of development at this stage belongs to public figures, publicists-philosophers. The revolutionary period is characterized by very serious sociological and economic-sociological works of agricultural researchers. The period of oblivion is characterized by the almost complete cessation of scientific research within the framework of rural sociology. The revival period is associated with the artistic and publicistic works of writers and journalists who turned their attention to the social contradictions that existed in the countryside and made an attempt to describe them. The scientific period — the maximum interest in rural topics among sociologists, the creation of the conceptual foundations of domestic rural sociology, the widest possible coverage of scientific research of rural life. In the modern period, there has been a slight decline in interest in rural sociology, the emergence of new, hybrid approaches and theories about the development of modern rural areas in Russia

History of sociology · Rural area · Rural history · Rural sociology · Sociological research · Sociological theory · Agricultural Development and Policies · Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends · Rural development and sustainability

• Teodor Shanin

  Open Access•B Z Doktorov, Борис Зусманович Докторов et al.•Russian Peasant Studies•2020

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