The research methodology of gender features of everyday environmental practices of the Russian population
One of the most relevant areas of modern research is human ecology with a methodology in the basis of which is an interdisciplinary approach connecting the identification of patterns of human relationships with the environment, processes of demographic reproduction, and conservation at both the micro and macro health levels. The article presents the methodology developed by authors and preliminary results of the survey “Ecology and Gender”, held in 2016-2018 by the ISESP RAS with the participation of the Swedish colleagues and researchers of the Karelian Research Center of the Institute of Economy in the Republic of Karelia, the purpose of which was to study the gender aspects of the daily environmental practices of Karelian families. In developing methodology, the authors used three theoretical approaches, which became the basis for the development of tools: firstly, the proposed I.P. Kulyasov a scheme of a network of environmental modernization actors; secondly, gender studies have become the most important theoretical basis of the developed methodology, including in the framework of understanding gender as a social construct; thirdly, the relationship of environmental degradation trends and the dynamics of gender relations in society using the model of environmental consciousness of Russian society. Identification of problems in the field of the formation of gender-balanced equality in the everyday environmental behavior of the population will allow us to offer effective management decisions in this area.