The article is devoted to the issues of experimental art formats which are considered by author as an alternative way understanding reality and conducting qualitative research. This approach based on author’s experience in doing research different spheres, well teaching sociology at several universities. contemporary world always changing makes many challenges, including big challenges field so...

Why are the sociologists stuck with writing? Howard becker says they are conservative. But surely, they are not more conservative than say biologists, and given their rhetorics, they more often try to be “radical”. Why then? Because they are a) believing in a instrumental objectivity pace Galison, while they know at the same time, that the received instruments to produce such objectivity, such ...

This paper discusses the aims and format of an introductory course in clinical sociology . It reviews the process of teaching clinical sociology as a profession and teaching the theoretical basis that distinguishes the field. Case studies, guest practitioners, and practical exercises are used to prompt an application and integration of the acquired knowledge. Ideally, the course reviewed here c...

this article  studyies political identity of dagestani people in the north caucasus. at the first, i have defined a true theory of political identity, which is compatible with dagestanis. this theory defines political identity in two aspects: grounded aspect, which is geography and history, and the social-environmental aspect, which includes culture (especially religion, costumes and ethnicity)...

Max Weber and Georg Simmel are considered as ideal-typical founders of sociology. Whereas Simmel pleaded for a large conception of sociology, which would include the epistemological and metaphysical issues as well, Max Weber explicitly excluded philosophical questions from the domain of sociology. A philosophical reading of Max Weber’s sociology, which uncovers his philosophy in the margins of ...

Collections of human tissue (biobanks) are thought to be an essential resource for biomedical research. Biobanks have, however, been a source of debate in both bioethics and sociology. In recent years this theorising has been supplemented with empirical research, including a significant body of qualitative research, into donors' experiences and attitudes. To date, this literature has not been s...

“rational choice model” is one of the economics theories which developed into sociology, politics, and anthropology and was applied to understand and justify some phenomena.  according to this hypothesis, the basis of decision making is improvements, enjoyment and suffering disposal. people always do all necessary calculations in each and every decision making and then adopt a rational decision...

The advent of public sociology over the past decade represents the end of a string of crisis moments in sociology. Since the 1950s and, especially, the 1960s, sociology was argued to be in a crisis because the discipline was thought to be conservative and contributing to sustain the status quo. As a result, the 1970s witnessed a radicalization of sociology, but the 1980s saw a general decline o...