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Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
K-4 SOC15 Cancelled!: Roundtable: Social Mobility in Eastern Europe and Russia, Sources and Methods
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Wiebke Schulz
Organizer: Vladimir Vladimirov Discussants: Antonie Knigge, Zoltán Lippényi
Valery Kanishchev : The Sources and Methods of Studies of Social Mobility of Population of Middle and Little Cities of the Central Russian at the end of 18th - beginning of 20th
The Russian town social structure at the end 18-th - the beginning of the 20-th cc. was usually observed on the all-Russian scale. Most researchers used the prepared collected statistic data. They almost never made the town dwellers personal account.
The microhistorical level studies using the new sources ... (Show more)
The Russian town social structure at the end 18-th - the beginning of the 20-th cc. was usually observed on the all-Russian scale. Most researchers used the prepared collected statistic data. They almost never made the town dwellers personal account.
The microhistorical level studies using the new sources and methods are valuable. Analysis of parish books 18-20 cc. can be used to study life’s traces of parishioners, their social mobility. The tax-censuses 18-19 cc. contained data on peasants, who lived in towns, lower town middle class (meschane), merchants of the 3-d guild as those people were poll-tax payers. The censuses papers listed all members of each poll-tax family for the time of the previous census plus notes on any social changes for the time of the current census (remove to another social groups, migrations, army recruiting). These materials allow calculating the social mobility persons between some censuses (1795, 1816, 1834, 1850, 1858).
The voter lists citizens of 1906-1917 yy. have data on voters full names, estate or profession, electoral qualification. The immovable’s tax book has data as the type of property with its value and agreed profitableness, the house and location number.
We have made and are processing the E-bases on these sources by mathematics and statistics means (Show less)

Marya Markova, Dmitry Sarafanov & Vladimir Vladimirov : Russian Parish Register Books and Research of Social Mobility
This research aims to find out the features fixation of professional information among urban population in Russian parish register books and to find out opportunities of social mobility studying. Parish register books contain various information about social (professional) position of people participating in rituals. Considering information was divided by us ... (Show more)
This research aims to find out the features fixation of professional information among urban population in Russian parish register books and to find out opportunities of social mobility studying. Parish register books contain various information about social (professional) position of people participating in rituals. Considering information was divided by us in three types: 1) data on occupation, 2) data on rank or title 3) data on status. The ways of presenting these types of social and professional information are different. Focusing on the codification rules and principles developed by the creators of HISCO, optimally allocate a few ways:
1) data on person’s occupation (rank). Person involved in the ritual is the "carrier" of occupation ("direct" record);
2) data on person’s former occupation (rank) by reason of resignation or dismissal. Person involved in the ritual is the "carrier" of occupation in the past (“temporary” relation);
3) data on occupation (rank) of person’s father or husband. Person involved in the ritual is not the "carrier" of occupation (“family” relation)
4) data on person’s status. Information does not contain a reference to the occupation (widow, adulterate, foundling, etc.). Person involved in the ritual is the "carrier" of “status”.
If we systematize social and occupational information in this way, we can include large part of records in the classification scheme (HISCO). Certain difficulties arise with the classification of ranks and titles. In our opinion, they should be referred to officials in the distribution of occupations (of the Employed) among HISCO Groups. Information about the status can be used in the study of social mobility.
In the study of social mobility is necessary to use information not only on "direct" participants of ceremonies, but also "secondary" (godparents, bridesmaids, etc.). There are four persons besides the baby (father, mother, godfather and godmother) register in “The born” table, seven persons in “The married” table and two persons in “The dead” one (deceased and/or relative). Thus, we found that almost 51% of the records contains a direct or indirect reference of information about occupational affiliation of the population. At the same time, records with “direct” data on person’s occupation make 11%. This suggests that in the process of binding data must include the above-mentioned persons. (Show less)

Irina G. Silina, Andrei Iluhin : Spatio-social Organization of the Russian Empire in the Second half of XIX - early XX Centuries
Spatio-social organization of the Russian Empire in the second half of XIX - early XX centuries

Vladimir Vladimirov, Elena Brukhanova & Evgeny Lubanets : Russian Historical Sources and the Study of Social Mobility
Research in the field of social mobility in Russia is only beginning to develop. This situation is primarily due to the lack of an information platform for conducting such studies. Currently, the Russian researchers just created databases and databanks, allowing an analysis of intergenerational social mobility at the level of ... (Show more)
Research in the field of social mobility in Russia is only beginning to develop. This situation is primarily due to the lack of an information platform for conducting such studies. Currently, the Russian researchers just created databases and databanks, allowing an analysis of intergenerational social mobility at the level of personalities. Another main focus is to identify historical sources containing information about the professional identity and social status of several generations. One of the most informative groups of sources are the documents that hold the acts of civil status, which include materials of parish register books XVIII - XIX centuries. and documents registry offices in the XX century. Another group of sources is represented by regular and ongoing statistical surveys, usually conducted by government authorities. This group may include materials of the administrative and police records for the second half of the XIX century, door-to-door surveys and censuses of the XX century. In the next group of sources includes a one-time statistical sections, which include census materials XIX - early XX centuries. (Until the Soviet period of Russian history census were episodic, sporadic). Feature of the latter two groups of sources is the ability to track changes in professional and social status within a single genus. In addition, such sources may be the basis for the study of social mobility not only of the male population, but also to track changes in female status. (Show less)



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