Short Remarks about Certain Structural Problems of Contemporary Russian Sociology

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Nikolay Mitrokhin

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1. Michael Burawoy distinguishes between professional, critical, policy, and public sociology, based on the main tasks and publics of sociological knowledge. Is this typology helpful in understanding the current state of Russian sociology? How are these four types correlated in Russia?

I concur with the South African sociologists whom Michael Burawoy cites as disagreeing with him. The South African and US models are not really contradictory. Sociology is a public science which, like any science, is based on a critical assessment of data. There is no doubt that it exerts an influence on society, but it must be practiced by professionals.

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Mitrokhin, N. (2009). Short Remarks about Certain Structural Problems of Contemporary Russian Sociology. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, 1(1), 219–223. Retrieved from https://www.soclabo.org/index.php/laboratorium/article/view/135
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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009): Russian Sociology in Local and Global Context
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