Shcherbina V.V. The problem of dosing social changes and the subject of sociology of management. 2021. Personality. Culture. Society. Vol. XXIII. No. 3 (111). Pp. 46-56.

Abstract

If in the classical sociology of Western countries (in the heyday of this science and, above all, in the United States) in the 1940'1970s. there was only one special sociological and regulatory theory (sociology of organizations), then in our country there were two – the sociology of organizations and the sociology of management. To explain this fact, the author analyzes how the development of any special sociological theories is related to the idea of the status of sociology as a science and with the conditions of their formation; and also how and why these conditions and status changed in our country and in the West. It is precisely the different basic theoretical foundations that predetermined the difference in the set of special socio regulatory theories. In the last 30'40 years, Western sociology has lost the status of a full-fledged sociological theory, i.e. focused on the knowledge of objective social processes (which is associated with the rejection of the Parson Mertonian theoretical scheme). This fact also removes the question of using the term “special sociological theory” (and even more so “sociological regulatory theory”). In Russian sociology, where the division into general and special sociological theories has been preserved, the task of adjusting the subject of this science arises. The author proposes a version of such an adjustment. In his opinion, the subject of sociology as a science, taking into account the dualism of imperatives that predetermine the ability of social entities to survive, is the permissible volume (measure) of changes in the social order per unit of time, exceeding which leads to the destruction of social entities that undertake these changes, and social crises.