Статья посвящена изучению места и роли национальных общественных организаций регионов Нижнего Поволжья (Астраханская, Волгоградская, Саратовская области) в обеспечении этноконфессиональной стабильности, сохранении поликультурного разнообразия и межнационального мира в многонациональном регионе.
The article is about peculiarities of the regional level ethnic and confessional relations in post-Soviet Russia. Dynamic of the ethnic and confessional structure of the population, key origins of conflicts in this area, main directions of their political management and preventing are analyzed as exemplified by Saratov region.
The article presents the comparative analysis of the state`s national policy concept and strategyregarding the efficiency of the realized practices of nation building and harmonizing the ethnic confessional relations at the regional level. The state`s national policyin Russia focusing on the background context of ethnic cultural regulators is considered. The authors’ reflection is directed to defining theefficiency of the most often used ways of obtaining social information.The conclusion is made that Verstehen methodology and ethnomethodology posses serious potential.
The article is devoted to measuring the effectiveness of the state national policy in Saratov region by means of using sociological methods and practices. The most commonly used method of obtaining social information in such studies was the combination of quantitative (questionnaire) and qualitative (expert survey) methods. The study revealed a number of trends in the development of the ethno-confessional situation in Saratov region.
