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Rural Cooperation in the Republic of Tatarstan(Russia):Ethnographic Case-Study
Mutual support is a phenomenon in modern society where personal values and disunity dominate. This phenomenon is characteristic of very few rural areas of Russia and it was found in rural areas of Tatarstan. The explanation of this fact lays, in the opinion of the author, in socialistic values of rural population especially typical for the area where the proportion of old people is quite big. Social networks reflecting rural population cooperation in Pestrechinsky area are concentrated basically on mezolevel and in Kukmorsky area on microlevel. Projective trajectories of rural population towards development of all spheres of life in a rural area are connected with intergenerational continuity due to family agricultural business.
1. Specifics of a demographic portrait of population in Pestrechinsky area reflected on making facilities inside the house. At the same time home improvement in Kukmorsky area is connected with household needs outside the house. 2. Rural residents working on a family farm show high level of satisfaction of fulfillment of his/her reproductive capabilities. 3. Such form of rural residents’ cooperation as condemnation of co-residents for not taking part in life of a rural community. 4. Life of rural people living in Pestrecinsky area is concentrated on the development of a social wellbeing while in Kukmorsky area - on personal wellbeing. None of these strategies cannot be viewed acknowledged as the best for the development of a rural society because personal welfare also constitutes social capital of the whole area.