Scherbina V.V. The dualistic logic of the development of sociological theory. Part 1. Personality. Culture. Society, 2019, Vol. 21, Issue 3-4 (103-104), pp. 98-111.

Abstract

This paper attempts to solve the 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 the 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 the current condition of Russian sociology; b) is there 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 first three of the questions raised.