Binary opposition «insider – outsider» in the realities of closed nuclear towns in the 1990s (evidence from closed administrative territorial entities of the Ural)

Konstantinova A. G.

The article presents a retrospective analysis of changes in the social structure of closed administrative territorial entities (CATEs) of the Ural in the 1990s in terms of differentiation in categorical opposition between «insiders» and «outsiders». The principles of historicism and objectivity were dominating in the study as the topic supposes historical reconstruction of social processes. The chosen research perspective helped to show that the social structure of the Ural CATEs retained weak differentiation during the period of active social transformations of the 1990s.

Keywords:social structure, social transformations, binary opposition «insider – outsider», closed administrative territorial entity (CATE).