Vol 19, No 8/2 (2013)

The article is dedicated to the stuff, services and studies of basic categories of military men of Southern Middle Volga Region at the end of XVI - XVII centuries. The features of military service, settling and giving land estates are demonstrated.

In the article the author views the interrelation between the events of November 1741 and followed after that diminution of influence of foreigners who were in the ruling elite of the Russian Empire.

The extension of participation of clergymen in school education, measures for extension and providing teaching of subjects of religious matter in schools at the beginning of the XIX century are analyzed in the article.

The paper analyzes approaches to the study of Russian province of the second half of the XIX century as a special historical and cultural space. The evolution of the concept «province» and the process of the debate between leading Russian thinkers of the XIX and early XX centuries on the role of province in the cultural life of Russia is highlighted. On the basis of analysis of works of modern scholars, the stereotypes in the perception of «province» are singled out and some promising methodological approaches to the study of historical and cultural identity of the regions of postreform Russia in all their diversity are highlighted.

 In the article the structure and quantity of social composition of urban population of the Middle Volga region in the second half of XIX - early XX centuries is studied, the characteristics of image of main urban estates is given.

The article focuses on the analysis of anthropology of petty bourgeoisie everyday life on the example of collision of estates with diseases and death. It is proved that despite the fact that generality of diseases and death was perceived as a trial, which every person has to undergo, there was estate specificity that was connected with social vulnerability of this society layer in the epoch when the urban petty bourgeoisie society was being destroyed and the general estate organism of the modernized city was being born.

In the article the attitude of Russian liberals to terror in conditions of revolution of 1905-1907 is analyzed, two areas of perception of terror among liberals are allocated and also the position and tactics of liberal parties on the question of use of terror in the I and II State Dumas is characterized.

 The article analyses the discussion, which developed on pages of capital and regional press, about place and role of Сhurch in the system of social and political relations of the Russian Empire before the I World War.

In the article the process of formation of scientific organization of agriculture in the Samara province in the early XX century is viewed. The history of organization of the oldest agricultural scientific institution in the region - Bezenchuk experimental station is revealed. The main directions of activities of this scientific institution in prerevolutionary period are studied.

 In the article the reasons of crisis of the system of higher education are analyzed. The characteristics of phenomenon «wars for minds», as new, special direction, a form of competitive fight for global leadership is given. Exactly in this context the role of higher school, which mission is delivery of an intellectual product in the form of professionally advanced, creatively thinking, and passionately charged personality is viewed.

 In the article on the materials of Kuibyshev (Samara) region the history of study of regional «cluster» of late Soviet and Russian elite is viewed. The content and stages of historiographic process, its determination by different factors: social and political current state of affairs, regime of access to the sources, theoretical paradigm is viewed. Relevant tasks and prospects of development of elite logical researches are defined.

The author of the article, with the consideration of her experience, is focusing her attention on the role repertoire of public sociologists in the contest of practices of participation of public hearings on the topic of regional budget.

The article discusses the concept of «stakeholders» and the history of its occurrence in the sociological discourse. The author points to the existence of political science, socio-cultural, applied economic and societal level of analysis of stakeholders. Basing on the Nobel theory of E. Ostrom on the principal possibility of balanced collective exploitation of public resources, the author points out on the limitations that existing situation in modern Russia lays on the development of practical self-identification of stakeholders, their consolidation, and also on the character of their activity.

The article is devoted to the dialogue between the power and community on the field of public hearings in the Samara region. The actualization of this topic is also connected with the continuing discussion about public sociology, its role in science and social practice. Factors that promote and prevent the dialog of power and community are studied. The importance of taking by the public sociologist the role of mediator, whose function is in generalization of hands-on experience of interaction of power and community by means of problematization of effectiveness of the given interaction on available and significant language for both sides is noticed.

This article discovers the essence of research context of analyzed program. Possible methodological frameworks of study are designated, the analysis of scientific texts on the researched topic is carried out.

 This article deals with the specificity of program and normative contexts of analyzed program. Discovered universal techniques of text compression are considered within indicated contexts.

 In the article the problems of inclusion of society in the process of treatment of solid domestic waste are viewed. Comparative analysis of foreign practices and practices in contemporary Russian society is presented. Also in the article the legal framework regulating this scope is analyzed.