Actual Problems of Domestic Sociological Childhood Research

The review of domestic sociological researches of the childhood on materials of the magazine “Sociological Researches” during 1990— 2014 is presented in the article. The review allows to designate the leading subjects of childhood’s studying, empirical problems of the organization, carrying out and interpretation of the obtained data, to characterize researches from the point of view of their localization, duration, age groups of children-informants, the methods of collecting and data processing. Difficulties of children’s studying are connected both with the empirical level of research, and with its theoretical and methodological bases, with development of sociology of the childhood as branch science. The Russian sociology of the childhood has problems of status uncertainty, dissociation of scientific community, an insufficient inclu- siveness of young researchers. All these problems slow down development of the methodological bases of sociological researches of the childhood. In conclusion of article it is submitted recommendations about strengthening of childhood sociology’s status positions.