5th NORDIC-BALTIC CONFERENCE IN REGIONAL SCIENCE
GLOBAL-LOCAL INTERPLAY IN THE BALTIC SEA REGION
Pärnu, Estonia, October 1-4, 1998

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Sergei Kuldin
Department of Sociology, Volny University
Nab. Reki Velikoi 6, 180000 Pskov, Russia
E-mail: kss@pskov.teia.ru

Theme 5

Sociological, political and economic problems in the system of values among the population in the Opochka and Pustoshka districts of the Pskov region

Summary of the paper (completed by organisers)

This paper analyses results of the survey investigating wide ring of factors like basic facts about peoples everyday life, their attitudes towards power structures and their social identification.

The amplifying center-periphery differences, rising unemployment, social exclusion and other problems causing also clearly differentiating attitudes of particular respondent groups towards the local authorities and new developments. Pensioners, for instance, are expressing negative attitudes to reforms and seriously spoke for rehabilitation of the Soviet regime.