Abstract

The article has presented the results of a comparative analysis of methodological foundations for studying the social practice phenomenon in foreign and national sociological science. The aim of the study was to understand social practice from the perspective of the Western theoretical and conceptual approaches to its study and the terminology used in national medical-sociological studies of health and healthcare. Based on the analysis of 50 scientific publications on the research topic, there has been given a characteristic of the main definitions used in theoretical and empirical studies of social practice, the identity of the concept of social practice has been revealed, the laws of social practices formation and development have been described, their relationship with social institutions and the socialization process has been analyzed. There have been shown the works of the Russian researchers dedicated to studying the healthcare system as a complex of social practices that confirmed their scientific validity and value for formation and development of their own scientific traditions in Russian Sociology of Medicine.

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