Social space and social identification of respondents

The article deals with theoretical substantiation of solving the task of respondents’ social identification and with development of instruments for data collection and analysis in surveys. The theoretical base of the study is P. Bourdieu’s theory of social space, which most fully conforms to the specifics of solving applied tasks. The article provides a list of the basic terms used in this theory: social space, agents, fields (economic field, intellectual field, etc.), various types of capital, habitus, as well as its structural and topological characteristics. This conception of social peace is supplemented with a modern vision of the new information society specifics and with provisions of the concept of social and information space. The proposed instrument for research and analysis is a specially developed matrix of social identification of respondents, which takes into account the main provisions of the social space theory.