Kinship Net and Institutional Changes in the Village of Central

Abstract

The aim of this article is to create a model of organization of a number of basic agrarian institutions in close connection with the family-kinship net organization. The article is based on the example of a village of a Central-chernozem region of Russia on the field-research materials of 2005–2006 years. The research was hold in one of the villages of Lipezk region and represents, on the one hand, a rather unique situation (for this village), a typical correlation of socio-economic and mental factors. On the other hand, this kind of rural organization has features, typical for a great number of rural settlements in Russia.