Abstract
Labor activity is one of the basic categories of Marxist sociology, and is being studied on both the theoretical and the empirical planes. There have been a number of major studies successfully synthesizing these two levels and containing important results.1 However, a large proportion of these studies were carried out in the late '60s and early '70s. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of investigations dealing with problems of labor activity that lack the requisite connection with the general problems and laws of its development under socialism. These studies have therefore been less fruitful than they might have. If the productiveness of applied research is to improve, not only must the methods used be improved, there must also be further theoretical analysis and generalization from the data obtained—an exploration of what they signify essentially in terms of general sociological theory—as well as the development on this basis of conceptions that could give a new impulse to the practical...
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