Change in Basic Characteristics of Sociology as A Science (Reasons, Conditions and Results of Developing Processes)

This paper attempts to solve following problems: 1) to reconstruct the substance, grounds and conditions of forming the theoretical model of sociology that preceded its contemporary versions and treated sociology, for almost 40 years, as a full-fledged social science; 2) to find out what differentiated it fundamentally from previous versions, and what predestined its wide currency for quite a long time; 3) to show how drastically the basic characteristics of sociology as a science have changed for last 40 years, and how much consensus we have today on its scientific status and specifics; 4) to show causes of these changes and to demonstrate their connection with wide-scale protest movements in Paris in May 1968; 5) to trace consequences of changes in theoretical model of this science for development of European (and, wider, Western) sociology; 6) to answer the questions: a) how much the processes unfolding in Western sociology for last 30–40 years have affected current condition of Russian sociology; b) is there a necessity to unify basic characteristics of contemporary Russian sociology with the Western ones?

Keywords

social sciences, sociology, model of science, characteristics of science, status of science, subject matter of science, May 1968 events, functionalism and Marxism, European vs Russian sociology

Received

06.11.2019

Publication date

02.12.2019

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34580

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GOST	Shcherbina V. Change in Basic Characteristics of Sociology as A Science (Reasons, Conditions and Results of Developing Processes) // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2019. – Issue 11 C. 29-39 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250007460-9-1-en (circulation date: 19.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250007460-9
MLA	Shcherbina, Vyashcheslav V. "Change in Basic Characteristics of Sociology as A Science (Reasons, Conditions and Results of Developing Processes)." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 11 (2019):29-39. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250007460-9
APA	Shcherbina V. (2019). Change in Basic Characteristics of Sociology as A Science (Reasons, Conditions and Results of Developing Processes). Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (11), pp.29-39 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250007460-9

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