Abstract
This article contains an attempt to examine the development of humanistic sociology based on accepting humanism as a concept model of the research, which aims at identifying humanistic parameters of the social macro-level. The article suggests the statement that the intention of the Russian sociology to “transform into the sociology for society” is characterized by deviation from the traditional understanding of humanistic sociology as the micro-level sociology, because the key elements for categorizing the humanistic tendencies in the Russian society are the creative class and creative practices. Based on the statement about humanistic sociology as sociology of social creativity, the substantiation is given for the relationship between humanistic sociology conceptualization and of the sociology subject area expansion by explaining and predicting social and cultural changes at the social macro-level. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s4p111
Highlights
Humanistic sociology is seen as a reaction to the sociological positivism proclaimed by A
One can assume that for the “Western” variant of humanistic sociology, humanism is expressed in the focus on the critically thinking and acting subject and self-determination, while in the Russian context the consequence of humanistic sociology is the development of the mediation schemes between the individual and the state, in which the society is not an independent “sociological substance”, but is defined as a space of social groups differentiated by the level of social activity and creativity
It is obvious that humanistic sociology determined the most interesting trend of the public life – the creative class, which could be perceived as a “conductor” of destabilizing influences and confirmed the position of the group ready to have a dialog with the authorities and the state in order “to be heard”, based on the priority of the values of social altruism and civil patriotism (Volkov and Krivopuskov, 2013)
Summary
Humanistic sociology is seen as a reaction to the sociological positivism proclaimed by A. Humanistic sociology includes the sociological thought domains which are anti-positive in their theoretical and methodological parameters and the studied problematic. The position described above involves certain theoretical difficulties. It is rather difficult to develop an independent sociological concept with an analytical, explanatory, and prognostic potential from the reaction situation and realization of dissatisfaction with objectivized sociological knowledge. The establishment of a new sociological paradigm, which combines the representatives of the sociological community by certain principles and criteria of the research, can hardly result only from the intention to make sociology humanistic. “centering” of sociological methodology and problematic at the level of understanding the human as an initial structure of sociological research not necessarily excludes the possibility of suggesting a compromise option
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