Are there grounds for theoretical sociology in Russia?

• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology 2010-03-01
• Series: Социологический журнал
• Online Access: http://jour.fnisc.ru/upload/journals/1/articles/1126/submission/proof/1126-61-2116-1-10-20150322.pdf

According to the authors opinion, the remaining system of the Russian social science organization through government agencies, the principles of forming up its personnel, the systems of acknowledgement and rewarding actually deprives humanities and social sciences in Russia of theoretical potential, of the very interest to general issues, to their theoretical working up which is impossible without interdisciplinary — historical, humanitarian — context. In recent years some young Russian scientists’ not infrequent turning to the ideas and fashionable figures of European postmodernism leaves aside the problems facing the Russian society. In this situation the author skeptical threats the call for engaging in “pure science” claimed by representatives of younger generation of Russian sociologists who accept neither nomenclature character of sciences serving the government interests, nor “empirical sociology” sterile in relation to any theories.