This paper deals with some aspects of changes in the social structure of Russian society that took place in the 1920s-1930s. From a sociological point of view, it is interesting to study the continuity between the daily life and activities of people from different classes before the revolution and how they adapted to the situation of transition, what places in Soviet society they managed to occupy in the years under review, how the skills they needed in pre-revolutionary life were transformed into new ones that were useful for Russia. Although the pre-revolutionary estates and related statuses officially disappeared from the social structure of society, people who were socialized under the old regime, their ways of life and class identities continued to live. In order for these people to "dissolve" into Soviet society, a long and complex process of transformation of habits, skills, and identity was necessary. In this article, I show how. This process took place on the example of the life of one family that belonged to the local nobility before the revolution, in the period from the 1870s to the 1930s. The aim of this paper is to analyze the mechanisms of social transformation at the micro level.e. people's reactions to changes in the social context, their tactics of resistance to innovations. As an analytical research tool, the theory of practices (1, 2) is used, which makes it possible to study social transformations from this point of view. The conceptualization of social changes in the works of researchers is confirmed in a polemic with other sociological theories-structural functionalism (3, p. 181-215), structuralism (4; 5; 6, p. 135-143), and rational choice theories (7). A common point that unites various areas of research in practice is the authors ' idea of transformations as a form of social change. social phenomenon: social changes are inherent in any society and are its normal characteristic, they are contextual, their course is largely determined by the ... Читать далее