A Sampling Survey of the Terek Cossack Troops Stanitsa Mode of Life (1875–1880) (Part II)

Occupation: Prof. of the Department of Sociology, Head of Sociological Laboratory
Affiliation: Moscow State Linguistic University
Address: Moscow, Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya

Edition

Issue 4

Pages

95-106

Abstract

In Russia in the 1870s-1880s, when the development of empirical sociology was out of the question, statistical surveys of the population on the widest range of socio-economic issues were actively carried out by provincial and regional administrations, and later, in cooperation with them – by zemstvo’s institutions. And if the activities of the zemstvo statistical bodies that functioned in some provinces of the European part of the Russian Empire have been sufficiently studied, the results of studies of the provincial (regional) statistical committees, covering almost all regions of the Russian Empire, continue to remain outside the field of scientific analysis. The article to a certain extent fills this gap, considering the methods and results of the activities of its employees, their contribution to the development of research procedures, in particular, the pioneering practice of the sampling method application, using the example of the Terek Regional Statistical Committee. The focus is on the organization and results of a survey on the study of the life of the Terek Cossack troops on the example of 12 "typical" villages, conducted under the leadership of N.A. Blagoveshchensky in 1875-1880. The article substantiates the conclusion about extensive practice of statistical surveys of rural life in the last third of the 19th century as a unique feature and indisputable achievement of domestic statistics, its contribution to the development of world statistical science, as well as a pre-sociological stage of empirical research in Russia.

Keywords

sample method, empirical sociology, Cossacks, statistical surveys, Terek Cossack army, village life

Received

21.04.2021

Publication date

04.05.2021

Number of characters

26271

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GOST	Obraztsov I. A Sampling Survey of the Terek Cossack Troops Stanitsa Mode of Life (1875–1880) (Part II) // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2021. – Issue 4 C. 95-106 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250013730-6-1-en (circulation date: 26.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250013730-6
MLA	Obraztsov, Igor V "A Sampling Survey of the Terek Cossack Troops Stanitsa Mode of Life (1875–1880) (Part II)." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 4 (2021):95-106. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250013730-6
APA	Obraztsov I. (2021). A Sampling Survey of the Terek Cossack Troops Stanitsa Mode of Life (1875–1880) (Part II). Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (4), pp.95-106 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250013730-6

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