SOCIOLOGY IN THE XXI CENTURY: PROBLEMS AND TRENDS OF DEVELOPMENT

Аннотация

The article is devoted to modern trends in the development of sociology, determined by fundamental social transformations and the formation of post-industrial society, the search of new states for their own model of development. According to the author, when human capital becomes the main resource, sociology faces the task of developing an integral and differential theoretical and methodological framework to explain the diversity of forms, levels, ways of practical activity. Modern trends in sociology's development are dialectics, systemic and holistic knowledge of society and a human, and practical orientation. Such sociology is reflexive sociology. Reflective sociology is an objective-conceptual, intellectual theory aimed at solving the problems of social life, explaining disparate facts by discovering regular relations of activity. It provides a higher, antinomic level of theorizing, capable of fixing knowledge in the context of culture and becoming a flexible, practice-oriented theory of a new integral-differential type.