Grumbling ‘Oldies’, Whining ‘Youngsters’, and Progress of Sociology

The article is presenting the author's approach to the problem of progress in contemporary sociology. Two kinds of the crisis discourse questioning the sociology’s progress are analyzed. Such discourses are associated with the different generations of sociologists who consider in different ways conceptual, institutional, and instrumental changes in the scientific discipline. The progress in the recent history of sociology is traced in the form of tendencies towards more complex and coherent representations of social order / structures, social action / agency, and social change / development. The progress in sociological theory and methodology is approved. The article argues the special role of post-virtualization processes and digitalization routine in formation of the structures, agency patterns, and social development models which define actual agenda in studies of sociology’s fundamental subjects: social order, social action, and social change.

Keywords

sociology, scientific progress, structure, agency, social development, digitalization routine

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16.02.2022

Publication date

18.03.2022

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26985

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GOST	Ivanov D. Grumbling ‘Oldies’, Whining ‘Youngsters’, and Progress of Sociology // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2022. – Issue 2 C. 3-11 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250018033-9-1-en (circulation date: 07.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250018033-9
MLA	Ivanov, Dmitry V "Grumbling ‘Oldies’, Whining ‘Youngsters’, and Progress of Sociology." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 2 (2022):3-11. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250018033-9
APA	Ivanov D. (2022). Grumbling ‘Oldies’, Whining ‘Youngsters’, and Progress of Sociology. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (2), pp.3-11 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250018033-9

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