The Scientific and Practical Potential of the Party Committee's Sociological Service

Abstract

The forms and methods of social education must be steadily improved if ideological activity is to become more effective. The task advanced by the Twenty-sixth Party Congress—the task of restructuring ideological work—presupposes an orientation first and foremost toward its end result: reinforcement of communist principles in the Soviet people's way of life, their inculcation with an active approach to life, eradication of antisocial activities, and deviations from the norms of socialist morality and law and order. The essence of the restructuring indicated by the congress consists in a shift in the center of gravity to the effectiveness of the forms and methods of social education. At the same time, experience shows that the end effect frequently remains outside the framework of ideological stereotypes, many of which no longer correspond to the population's higher educational and cultural level.