КОНКРЕТНЫЕ СОЦИОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ
Concrete Sociological Investigations
Studies of various aspects and elements of society (economy, everyday life, family and matrimonial relations, public opinion, cultural level and technical education of workers and peasants, etc.).
Concrete Sociological Investigations effected by the various social sciences (i.e., theory of scientific communism, economics, statistics, jurisprudence, etc.) employ the methodology of historical materialism which offers a truly scientific analysis of concrete facts. The purposes of Concrete Sociological Investigations are: ascertainment and generalisation of new phenomena in social life; investigation of the practical activities of state and mass organisations; generalisation of the experience of socialist and communist construction; and the discovery of new laws governing the economic, political and cultural development of socialism and its growth into communism.
An example of Concrete Sociological Investigations is to be found in Lenin's A Great Beginning with its profound factual analysis of the early communist "subbotniks" (voluntary labour performed after working hours on weekends) and evaluation of their tremendous impact on the pace of communist construction in Russia. Concrete Sociological Investigations employ such methods and techniques as the statistical approach, questionnaires, interviews or polls, etc.
Concrete Sociological Investigations differ fundamentally from empirical sociology, which rejects the study of the objective laws of social development (thus inevitably leading to the misrepresentation of concrete facts) and gets lost in a trivial description and enumeration of facts.
«Социологические исследования»
Научный журнал, орган института социологических исследований АН СССР. Основан в 1974, выходит в Москве 4 раза в год. Освещает теоретические проблемы социологии и результаты социологических исследований. Имеет постоянные рубрики: социологическая наука и практика, социальное планирование, социологические вопросы образа жизни, критика современной буржуазной социологии, история социологической мысли, библиография. Тираж (1976) 8 тыс. экз.