The Crafts of a Province: Archaic and Modern Economic Practices of the Provincial Households

  • Yuri Plusnin National Research University — Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Keywords: craft; craft practices; archaic and modern crafts; household economic behavior; life support system; informal economy; provincial local society.

Abstract

This article presents an empirical study of the economic activity of the population. appearing in the form of crafts, that is the entrepreneur's self-supporting activity aimed at household subsistence. Primary forms of such activity are self-employment, individual entrepreneurship and hiring. The purpose of this article is to describe the relationship between archaic and modern types of crafts in the local communities. As a result, the author elaborates the concept of the craft evolution.

Acknowledgements

The article was prepared within the framework of the Academic Fund Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in 2017–2018 (grant № 17-01-0027) and by the Russian Academic Excellence Project "5-100".

This field research was initiated by prof. S.G. Kordonsky.

I am grateful to the staff and students of the Higher School of Economics, participants in the Taman expedition in October 2017, which carried out the collection of field material: O.A. Molyarenko, L.G. Romanova, N.A. Baranova, A.V. Grishechkin, H.V. Zharskaja, T.I. Zaitseva, M. Zayats, N.V. Kokorina, M. Olianchuk, O.D. Pisarev, A.S. Popova, A.S. Pyanova, M.I. Sotnikova, D.V. Chaban.

References

Ахиезер А.С. (2001) Архаизация в российском обществе как методологическая проблема. Общественные науки и современность, 2: 89–100.

Барсукова С.Ю. (2003) Неформальная экономика: понятие, структура. Экономическая социология, 4(4): 15–36.

Барсукова С.Ю. (2004) Неформальная экономика. Экономико-социологический анализ. М.: Издательский дом ГУ ВШЭ.

Вахитов Р. (2017) Промысел как феномен сословного общества. Экономика и управление: научно-практический журнал, 1(135): 51–57.

Вахштайн В.С. (2013) К концептуализации сообщества: еще раз о резидентности, или работа над ошибками. Социология власти. Сообщества и город, 3: 8–26.

Водарский Я.Е., Истомина Э.Г. (2004) Сельские кустарные промыслы Европейской России на рубеже XIX–XX столетий. М.: ИРИ РАН, 2004.

Гимпельсон В.Е., Капелюшников Р.И. (ред.) (2006) Нестандартная занятость в российской экономике. М.: Издательский Дом ГУ-ВШЭ.

Кордонский С.Г. (2000) Рынки власти. Административные рынки СССР и России, М.: ОГИ.

Кордонский С.Г., Плюснин Ю.М. (2018) Архаические экономические институты: «распределенные мануфактуры» в малых городах России. Мир России. Социология. Этнология, 4 (в печати).

Кулишер И.М. (2004) История русского народного хозяйства. Челябинск: Социум.

Павлов А.Б., Селеев С.С. (2016) Гаражники. М.: Страна ОЗ.

Першин Ю.Ю. (2014) Архаическое сознание: сущность и принципы. Автореф. дис. ... д-ра филос. наук. Омск.

Плюснин Ю.М. (1997) Психология материальной жизни (парадоксы сельской «экономики выживания»). ЭКО, Новосибирск, 3: 39–46.

Сергеев Д.В. (2012) Социально-культурная ситуация в России начала XXI в.: рецидивная культура, архаизация, изобретенная архаика. Мир России, 21(3): 100–118.

Скотт Дж. (1999) Моральная экономика деревни. Неформальная экономика: Россия и мир. Шанин Т. (ред.). М.: Логос, 1999.

Холодов В.И., Пиркова А.В., Ладыгина Л.В. (2010) Выращивание мидий и устриц в Черном море. Институт биологии южных морей им. А.О. Ковалевского. Севастополь.

Шанин Т. (ред.) (1999) Неформальная экономика: Россия и мир, М.: Логос.

Ядов В.А. (2014) Трансформация постсоветских обществ: что более значимо — исторически традиционное или недавнее прошлое. Социологические исследования, 7: 47–50.

Akhiyezer A.S. (2001) Arkhaizatsiya v rossiyskom obshchestve kak metodologicheskaya problema [Archaization in Russian society as a methodological problem]. Obshchestvennyye nauki i sovremennost [Social Sciences and Modernity], 2: 89–100 (in Russian).

Barsukova S.Y. (2003) Neformal'naya ekonomika: ponyatiye, struktura [Informal economy: concept and structure]. Ekonomicheskaya sotsiologiya [Economic Sociology], 4(4): 15–36 (in Russian).

Barsukova S.Y. (2004) Neformal’naya ekonomika: ekonomiko-sotciologicheskiy analiz [The informal economy: economic-sociological analysis]. Izdatel’stvo GU VSHE (in Russian).

Barsukova S., Radaev V.V. (2012) Informal Economy in Russia: A Brief Overview, Economic Sociology. The European electronic newsletter, 13(2): 4–12.

Bocher W. (1996) Selbstorganisation. Verantwortung. Gesellschaft. Von subatomaren Strukturen zu politischen Zukunftsvisionen [Self-organisation. Responsibility. Society. From subatomic structures to political visions of the future] Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag (in German).

Vakhitov R. (2017) Promysel kak fenomen soslovnogo obshchestva [Craft as a phenomenon of an estate society]. Ekonomika i upravleniye: nauchno-prakticheskiy zhurnal [Economics and management: scientific and practical journal], 1(135): 51–57 (in Russian).

Vakhshtayn V.S. (2013) K kontseptualizatsii soobshchestva: yeshche raz o rezidentnosti ili rabota nad oshibkami [To conceptualize the community: once again about residency or correction of errors]. Sotsiologiya vlasti. Soobshchestva i gorod [Sociology of power. Communities and the city], 3: 8–26 (in Russian).

Vodarskiy Y.Y., Istomina E.G. (2004) Sel'skiye kustarnyye promysly yevropeyskoy Rossii na rubezhe XIX-XX stoletiy [Rural crafts of European Russia at the turn of the XIX–XX centuries]. M.: IRI RAN (in Russian).

Gimpelson V.Y., Kapelyushnikov R.I. (red.) (2006) Nestandartnaya zanyatost' v rossiyskoy ekonomike [Non-standard employment in the Russian economy]. M.: Izdatel'skiy Dom GU-VSHE (in Russian).

Heylighen F. (2008) Complexity and Self-Organization. Center "Leo Apostel": Free University of Brussels.

Ilyin V.I. (2001) Podarok kak sotsial'nyy fenomen [Gift as a social phenomenon]. Rubezh (al'manakh sotsial'nykh issledovaniy) [Rubezh (almanac of social studies)], 16/17 (in Russian).

Kordonskiy S.G. (2000) Rynki vlasti. Administrativnyye rynki SSSR i Rossii [The markets of power. Administrative markets of the USSR and Russia] M.: OGI (in Russian).

Kordonsky S. (2018) The social structure of Russia. In: Studin I. (ed.). Russia. Strategy, Policy and Administration. N.-Y.: Palgrave Macmillan: 76–85.

Kordonskiy S.G., Plusnin Y.M. (2018) Arkhaicheskiye ekonomicheskiye instituty: «raspredelyonnyye manufaktury» v malykh gorodakh Rossii [Archaic economic institutions: "distributed manufactories" in small cities of Russia]. Mir Rossii. Sotsiologiya. Etnologiya [Universe of Russia. Sociology. Ethnology], 4 (in press) (in Russian).

Kulisher I.M. (2004) Istoriya russkogo narodnogo khozyaystva [The History of the Russian National Economy]. Chelyabinsk: Sotsium (in Russian).

Pavlov A.B., Seleyev S.S. (2015) Fenomenologicheskoye opisaniye sovremennoy promyslovoy deyatel'nosti [Phenomenological description of modern fishing activities]. Universum: Obshchestvennyye nauki: elektroyy nauchnyy zhurnal [Universum: Social Sciences: electronic scientific journal], 3(13) http://7universum.com/ru/social/archive/item/2015 (accessed: 01.04.2018) (in Russian).

Pavlov A.B., Seleyev S.S. (2016) Garazhniki [Garage People]. M.: Strana OZ (in Russian).

Pershin Yu.Yu. (2014) Arkhaicheskoye soznaniye: sushchnost' i printsipy [Archaic Consciousness: Essence and Principles]. Avtoref. dis. ... d-ra filos. nauk. Omsk (in Russian).

Plusnin Y.M. (1997) Psikhologiya material'noy zhizni (paradoksy sel'skoy «ekonomiki vyzhivaniya») [Psychology of material life (the paradoxes of the rural "survival economy")]. EKO, Novosibirsk, 3: 39–46 (in Russian).

Plusnin J., Zausaeva Y., Zhidkevich N., Pozanenko A. (2015) Wandering Workers. Mores, Behavior, Way of Life, and Political Status of Domestic Russian Labor Migrants. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag.

Prigogine I., Nicolis G., Babloyantz A. (1972) Thermodynamics of evolution. Physics Today, 25(12): 38–44.

Sergeyev D.V. (2012) Sotsial'no-kul'turnaya situatsiya v Rossii nachala XXI v: retsidivnaya kul'tura, arkhaizatsiya, izobretennaya arkhaika [Socio-cultural situation in Russia at the beginning of the XXI century: a recurrent culture, archaization, invented archaic]. Mir Rossii, 21(3): 100–118 (in Russian).

Scott J. (1999) Moral'naya ekonomika derevni [Moral economy of the village]. In: Neformal'naya ekonomika: Rossiya i mir [Informal economy: Russia and the world]. Shanin T. (ed.). M.: Logos, 1999 (in Russian).

Kholodov V.I., Pirkova A.V., Ladygina L.V. (2010) Vyrashchivaniye midiy i ustrits v Chernom more [Cultivation of mussels and oysters in the Black Sea]. Institut biologii yuzhnykh morey im. A.O. Kovalevskiy. Sevastopol (in Russian).

Shanin T. (ed.) (1999) Neformal'naya ekonomika: Rossiya i mir [Informal Economy: Russia and the World]. M.: Logos (in Russian).

Von Foerster H., Zopf G.W., Jr. (eds.) (1962) Principles of Self-Organization. L.: Pergamon Press.

Yadov V.A. (2014) Transformatsiya postsovetskikh obshchestv: chto boleye znachimo –– istoricheski traditsionnoye ili nedavneye proshloye [The transformation of post-Soviet societies: more importantly, a historically traditional or recent past]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological research], 7: 47–50 (in Russian).

Published
2018-03-20
How to Cite
Plusnin, Y. (2018). The Crafts of a Province: Archaic and Modern Economic Practices of the Provincial Households. ZHURNAL SOTSIOLOGII I SOTSIALNOY ANTROPOLOGII (The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology), 21(1), 73–106. Retrieved from http://jourssa.ru/jourssa/article/view/141