социологическое исследование, интернет-сообщество, методология исследо-вания, социальный портрет, виртуальные сети, sociological research, internet-community, research methodology, social image, Economics as a science, HB71-74

The article provides a view on the methodological issues of scientific research into Internet-communities. There is an outline of the results of the sociological research focusing at the functional features about youth Internet-communities. There is also an analysis of a social image of a typical user in the nowadays Internet-community.