Traditional social norms and value system of the Olonets’s province population in the 19th and early 20th centuries

Abstract

The article describes problems of the social control functioning as a significant factor in the daily life of the Olonets’s province population. It was revealed that the social control included several main components. Among them the activity of the parish community and peasant communities in maintaining the traditional way of life was a priority. A noticeable contribution to social control was provided by the gradually emerging system of public education. Maintaining social control to some extent relied on the activity of law enforcement agencies.

Keywords

• social control
• deviance
• crime
• peasantry
• townspeople
• public educatio