Social activity in the object-subject field of patriotic research: the experience of content-analysis

The article presents the results of content analysis of the names of scientific articles posted on the portal eLIBRARY.RU and devoted to the study of social activity. The dynamics of the output of articles for the period 2003-2018 is analyzed. The tendency of change of research interest to a considered problematics, its character and factors is revealed. The frequency of the researchers' appeals to this or that empirical object and domain is determined. Prospective directions of research devoted to social activity have been established. The estimation of content analysis as a method of obtaining a generalized picture of publication activity on a given topic and content content of scientific works is given.