Professional Trades of the Sakha People and the “Breakthrough” into Information Society

In this article the author deals with the concept of ethnic-cultural division of labor in terms of theory and methodology, with references to the ethnos theory of L.N. Gumilev. The ethnic-cultural division of labor is also considered from the point of view of historical and sociological approaches, with the analysis of the data collected in a big sociological survey in 16 regions of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutiya), conducted in October, 2011. The author describes the swift process of introducing information technologies in the republic.

social adaptation, homeostasis, information society, prestige, division of labor, traditional society, an ethnic group, ethnogenesis