THE RURAL DISCOURSE OF INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC STUDIES

Abstract

By means of the analysis of a rural discourse, its economic, physio-economic, socio-economic, and ruralistic contexts are estimated.
The scientific actuality and the practical meaning of the studied problem are caused by a place of the rurality (or the agrarian life style) as a social phenomenon, kind of vital activity, agrarian means of production of material goods, and the rural development on the whole in the strategic development of the national economy and the other spheres of the vital activity. This is related, first of all, to the increasing role of the agrarian production in the support of Ukraine’s competitiveness on the world markets and in the solution of the food problem. The significant place in the solution of these questions is occupied by economic science, which is in the state of transformational changes and the spacing from a sectoral research paradigm to the social and behavioral science, which spreads essentially its research field and increases the interdisciplinary “weight.”
It is worth noting that the connections of the economics with related and adjacent sciences and intersectoral scientific disciplines such as geography, sociology, psychology, history, physical economy, and socioeconomy are widened and deepened.
The use of the methods of system analysis, deduction, induction, synthesis, analysis, as well as the dialectic, phenomenological, discourse, and content analyses, in the process of studies allows us to substantiate the key role of the ruralistics, which is a new interdisciplinary scientific field, in the deepening of the scientific ideas of the essence, identificational signs, functions, and social mission of rural territories. In the context of the ruralistics, these natural and socio-spatial formations are composed of the agrisystem, economic space, social medium, and mental image.
The scientific novelty of the analysis consists in the establishment of a research field and scientific trends of the ruralistics and its practical value in the renewal of rural territories.
As the further promising directions of studies of the outlined theme, we mention the deepening of world outlook, theoretical, and methodological principles of the ruralistics and the refining of the object and item of the ruralization and the ruralism.