Detskiy dom yavlyaetsya osnovnym institutom sotsializatsii osirotevshikh detey. Monografiya posvyashchena aktual'noy probleme izucheniya detskogo doma kak instituta sotsializatsii osirotevshikh detey. V rabote raskryty sushchnost' i struktura detskogo doma kak instituta sotsializatsii, a takzhe na osnove avtorskikh sotsiologicheskikh issledovaniy predstavleny klyuchevye tendentsii razvitiya detskogo doma kak sotsial'nogo instituta v regione. Kniga adresovana setsialistam, zanimayushchimsya teoreticheskimi i prakticheskimi problemami zhizneustroystva detey-sirot: sotsiologam, psikhologam, sotsial'nym pedagogam, sotsial'nym rabotnikam, rukovoditelyam internatnykh uchrezhdeniy, studentam sotsial'no-gumanitarnykh spetsial'nostey.