Professional Trades of the Sakha People and the “Breakthrough” into Information Society

• Main Author: I I Podoynitsina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2013
• Subjects: адаптация социальная; гомеостаз; информационное общество; престиж; разделение труда; традиционное общество; этническая группа; этногенез; Sociology (General); HM401-1281; Sakha; Yakutiya; Republic of Sakha
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/7cc901f5e0ba48c2b545541ff9963980

In this article the author deals with the concept of ethnic-cultural division of labor in terms of theory and methodology, with references to the ethnos theory of L.N. Gumilev. The ethnic-cultural division of labor is also considered from the point of view of historical and sociological approaches, with the analysis of the data collected in a big sociological survey in 16 regions of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutiya), conducted in October, 2011. The author describes the swift process of introducing information technologies in the republic.