Shcherbina V.V. The dualistic logic of the development of sociological theory. Part 2. Personality. Culture. Society, 2020, Vol. XXII, Issue 1-2 (105-106), pp. 46-60. DOI: 10.30936 ...

Abstract

This paper attempts to solve the following problems: first, to reconstruct the sub stance, grounds and conditions of forming the theoretical model of sociology that treated sociolo gy, for almost 40 years, as a robust, fullfledged social science with distinctly expressed specifics so that this was recognized by virtually all sociologists and social scientists of the world; second, to find out what differentiates fundamentally this model of sociology from other models, and what predestined wide currency of this vision of sociology as a science for quite a long time; third, to show how drastically the basic characteristics of sociology as a science have changed for last 40 years, what basic characteristics of this science we are facing today, and how much consensus we have today on its scientific status and specifics; fourth, to explicate the causes of these changes and to demonstrate their interconnection with widescale protest movements in Europe initiated by student uproar in Paris in May 1968; fifth, to trace the consequences of these historical chang es for development of European (and, wider, Western) sociology; sixth, to answer the questions: a) how much the processes unfolding in Western sociology for last 30 or 40 years have affected the current condition of Russian sociology; b) is there the necessity to unify the basic characteristics of contemporary Russian sociology with these of the Western one. In this part of the paper the author attempts to answer the last three of the questions raised.