Сontent analysis in studying social and environmental problems of Soviet society 1917–21

Сontent analysis in studying social and environmental problems of Soviet society 1917–21


Кanishchev V.V.

Dr. Sci. (History), Prof. Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin, Tambov, Russia. valcan@mail.ru

Tsintsadze N.S.

Derzhavin Tambov State University NinaTsintsadze2010@ yandex.ru

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Кanishchev V.V., Tsintsadze N.S. Сontent analysis in studying social and environmental problems of Soviet society 1917–21. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2016. No 9. P. 144-147




Abstract

Article describes tools and main results of using content analysis, one of the quantitative methods of modern science, in the study of the history of environmental problems in early Soviet Russia. The authors on the basis of 5,5 thousand published normative and administrative acts of the first years of Soviet power revealed peculiarities of the state attitude to demographic and environmental problems in the Russian village at a turning point of transition from traditional to industrial type of society. Eventually, conclusions that the content analysis shows its expedience and undoubted perspective to achieve research objectives in the field of social and ecological history.


Keywords
content-analysis; cliometrics; interdisciplinary research; Russian agrarian society; demographic crisis; environmental crisis; decrees of the Soviet government
Content No 9, 2016