Reading in Kazakhstan |
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| Institution: | 1. Emory University, Department of Sociology, USA;2. Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, USA;3. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, USA;4. The City University of New York, Department of Psychology, USA;1. University Healthcare Department, Nazarbayev University, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan;2. Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA;3. Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA |
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| Abstract: | The main purpose of the sociology of reading is determining, through the analysis of reading data, the social processes actually at work in society. This article analyses the results of sociological research done by the research staffs of libraries in Kazakhstan between 1991 and 1994. It focuses also on the problems faced by the sociology of reading in Kazakhstan, where such research was previously considered by the authorities as purposeful only in solving the practical problems of libraries. Today, reading in Kazakhstan is characterized by frequent changes in readers' demands caused by the dramatic changes in ideology, politics and economics in the constituent parts of the former Soviet Union. Reading in Kazakhstan is becoming more utilitarian. Pragmatic information needs determine the choice of literature. There is a sharp decline in the demand for fiction compared to the 1980s. Those intellectual spheres in which ideological control was severest, such as history and philosophy, flourish and effect reading. Finally, the decision of independent Kazakhstan to encourage the use of the Kazakh language is having an effect on reading patterns. |
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