Models of Collaboration. Comparative analysis of Kyrgyzstani and Kazakhstani rural societies

      Аннотация: The comparative study of countryside cases is aimed at the identi?cation and interpretation of speci?c practice of "collaborative models" observed within the rural contexts of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan Republics. It employs an overview of the “Resource Mobilization Theory” by Bob Edwards (2007), as an approach for investigation of main differences and commonalities of mutual communal activities, aimed on acquisition of social changes and other rural benefits, analyzing experiences, interactions and practices of villagers within their own rural realities. Finally the study thinks over the retrieved collaborative phenomenon and calls attention to the researcher’s attempt to propose scheming of the most functional and optimal aspects of the studied collaborative models.

Ключевые слова: Kazakhstan, Rural Society, comparative analysis, Fieldwork, sociological research, Senior thesis, Model of collaboration, Resource Mobilization Theory, The Kyrgyz Republic, development studies, Rural Sociology