Subject Fields in Rural Local Communities Research

Rural local communities can be defined as an integral socio-economic system, a social group living in a certain territory, having close sociodemographic, economic, socio-cultural ties and socio-political institutions. The allocation of rural local communities into a separate independent system is due to the need for a more complete analysis of the subject of research at the intersection of sciences. The subject area of research of rural local 
communities has a very broad framework, including the entire system of socio-demographic, economic, socio-cultural, political indicators as a structure determined by its own type of behavior. A distinctive feature of the development of rural local communities is the preservation of peasant ethos as a carrier of historical traditions, socio-cultural characteristics and social microclimate, forming their own identity, which is determined by a
certain kind of active behavior in the context of its vector of development.

Keywords: rural local communities, subject area of research, methodology, sustainable development, ethos of peasants.