SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES IN BELARUS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX - THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY AS A RESEARCH PROBLEM
The article examines advances in study of socio-demographic processes in Belarus in the second half of the XIX - the beginning of the XX cent., methods and approaches of studying applied by researchers in a particular historical period. The author pays particular attention to the application of the modernization paradigm, considering demographic transition theory. The author analyzes the experience in application of general scientific, special historical and quantitative methods, which are made use of working with demographic statistics. The author goes on to show the perspective research fields of socio-demographic processes.