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Translations
Erving Goffman
(Transl. by:
Andrei Korbut
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Anna Tsareva
; Translation ed. by:
Viktor Vakhshtayn
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Lecture
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4–26
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Schmittiana
Review essays
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39–49
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The article presents an overview of the hermeneutical approaches, having significant consequences for sociology. The author deals with various definitions of hermeneutics. By offering a brief story of the establishment of hermeneutics as a relatively independent stream in philosophy, she reflects on the causes of a continued rejection of interpretative methods by social sciences. The main part of the overview is devoted to theoretical projects of Jürgen Habermas and Paul Ricoeur, united by the idea of necessary application of hermeneutical methods in sociological research. |
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50–59
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The author shows the division between structural and cultural theories of money in sociology. Structural theories explain money as economic exchange mediator, an element of the network of communication or as objective indicator of the qualities of communication. Cultural theories pay special attention to cultural context of interpersonal interaction, explaining money as a label of interaction itself. This division helps the author to systematize microsociological conceptions of money and indicate some problems for future studies of the social nature of money. |
Book reviews
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60–64
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Review on Russian translation of Jurgen Habermas’s collection of papers “Technology and science as ‘ideology’” mainly pays attention to the article of the same name, where the problem of rationality, which is classical for theorizing in sociology, is challenged. Using the examples of technology and science Habermas follows H.Mercuse and shows the political dimension of expansion of purposeful-rational action, which was described by Max Weber in connection with the shift from traditional to modern types of society. Discussion of science and its relations to technology allows Habermas to study the problem of classical sociology – the shift to modernity – in novel way and to interpret notions of ideology and class struggle in a new way. |
In memoriam
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65–78
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This article is dedicated to the memory of Erving Goffman. This is both an outline of his intellectual biography and an attempt to apply the technique of the frame-analysis he proposed to the understanding of the nature of scientific communication (including the episodes of scientific communication Goffman himself was a part of). Along with historical-theoretical issues the article raises the questions of the analytical character itself: how do the “biographical” and “theoretical” frames combine? How do biographers create the visibility of the connection of the author’s research and “the unique features of his personality”? Under what rules and what communicative frames is the “production” of classic organized? |
Education
Bruno Latour
(Transl. by:
Artyom Smirnov
; Translation ed. by:
Viktor Vakhshtayn
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On Interobjectivity
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79–96
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Bruno Latour is well-known by Russian language reader as the sociologist of science and researcher-constructivist. Latour-philosopher and Latour-theorist are much less popular in Russia than Latour-researcher and Latour-epistemologist. The published article “On Interobjectivity” is a fundamental research of the nature of social interaction. Its key concerns are quite far from the traditional questions of the sociology of knowledge. Rather, it is about the revision of the basic sociological concepts that are not able to adequately express the intuition of the changing world. And here the text itself – its composition and style – turns to be the valuable illustration of the strategy of gaze developed by Latour. |
In memoriam
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97–120
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The two interviews with a well-known Russian sociologist Boris A. Grushin tell about his creative path to science, about development of public opinion research in the USSR, establishment and functioning of the Institute of public opinion of the newspaper «Komsomolskaya pravda», about the Taganrog project, about the role of party journalism, particularly, of the magazine «The problems of the world and socialism», about reception of western ideas, liberalization of social sciences in the Soviet Union and about two-way influence of press and mass consciousness. |
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