Practical Sociology: Difficulties of Conceptualization and Spontaneous Interdisciplinarity

 
PIIS013216250010576-6-1
DOI10.31857/S013216250010576-6
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Occupation: Leading Researcher, Head of the Department of Analysis of Sociocultural Foundations of Political Processes
Affiliation: Institute of Sociology of FCTAS RAS
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Journal nameSotsiologicheskie issledovaniya
EditionIssue 10
Pages13-23
Abstract

The paper discusses problems of sociological theory from the perspective of empirical research experience of the author and her colleagues. Main obstacles to conceptualization of research results are related to modern sociological theory and its commitments. Current interpretation of the commitment as inevitable, reflexive and open are shown. The main risks are apriority and rising totality. Crisis of explanation power of the theory is related first of all to the disintegration of sociology, emergence of a number of branches, theories, methods. Another problem is caused by the origin of theoretical instruments created in the Western modern society (T. Parsons, R. Merton, etc.). It is difficult to use it for analyses the Russian (Soviet) modernity. The ways to solve above problems in empirical sociology are suggested. Several methods and theoretical conceptualizations are shown. These concepts are a result of spontaneous interdisciplinarity of the sociolinguists educated in the USSR. The paper also shows the adaptation of polyparadimal approach to the research goals, the results of historical methodology and steps of theorizing resulted by way of concepts of actor, agent, dichotomy of social action, actor and technological models of management.

Keywordsempirical research, sociological theory, historical retrospective, dialectic logic, subjectivity, commitment, crisis of explanation
Received19.07.2020
Publication date18.12.2020
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