Methodological aspects of social constructing in Russian agricultural sphere

The article concerns various ways of social modeling of agricultural sphere as a complex system with bioecological, technological, economical and social and cultural aspects of analysis. The author analyses the possibilities of social and structural description of rural life in frames of phenomenology and neo-Weberianism, substantiates the necessity to refuse traditional descriptive models of a village social structure in view of deep status decomposition of all population groups. The author describes a specific role of a way of prosperity provision as a sign of stratification.