IDEOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION PROCESS OF SOCIOLOGY IN PREREVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA

Abstract

Firstly, the question of institutionalization of sociology in Russia is of interest for historical and sociological analysis from the point of view of changing the world outlook paradigm in educated Russian society of the late XIX — early XX centuries. Secondly, it is a question of purely practical formulation of positivistic, materialistic and opposing ideas and teachings in our society. Sociologism and its institutionalization is the content and form of emergence and consolidation of the accomplished turn of public consciousness. The processes of penetration, dissemination and acquisition of official status by sociology in the institutional forms walked hard and slow. Today it is necessary to consider them retrospectively only in a historical perspective — in the light of the revolutions of 1917 and the events that immediately followed. This article demonstrates that today the emergence of sociological theory and its institutionalization in imperial Russia is not only the subject of interest of historians and social scientists, but also an essential point of understanding the dynamics of new ideas and theories, which must be taken into account in our present and in predicting the future.