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Sociology and Social Practice
A Sociological Analysis of Contemporary Social Processes and Their Interrelationship with Science
- 1st Edition - October 22, 2013
- Author: Niko Yahiel
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 1 7 5 5 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 4 9 9 7 - 4
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Request a sales quoteSociology and Social Practice: A Sociological Analysis of Contemporary Social Processes and Their Interrelationship with Science reviews the interaction of sociological knowledge and social practice, with emphasis on the role of the practical functions of sociological science in the various spheres of society. This treatise examines from the sociological standpoint some fundamental problems that have arisen in the process of building the new society in Bulgaria and how science can help solve these problems. This book is comprised of 10 chapters organized into three sections. After an introduction to the theoretical aspects of the relationship between sociological knowledge and social practice (political practice and policy-making in particular), the discussion turns to some topical and interrelated problems such as the scientific and technical revolution; the intellectualization of social practice; the intensification of socio-economic development; the efficiency of science; and the essence of the multiplier approach. The last section explores some key problems of science as a social institution and includes chapters that discuss the scientific manpower potential in Bulgaria; scientific-information activity; and the scientific community as a collective subject of scientific activity. This monograph will be useful to sociologists and social scientists.
Introduction
Part One Sociological Knowledge and Social Practice—A General Theoretical Analysis
Chapter One On the Interaction of Sociology and Social Practice
1. The Dialectical Unity of Sociological Knowledge and Social Practice—An Immanent Feature of Marxist Sociology
2. On the Cycle 'Social Practice-Sociological Knowledge-Social Practice'
3. Basic Trends of the Deepening of Relations between Sociological Science and Social Practice
Chapter Two The Sociological Approach and Political Practice
1. Sociology and the Scientific Validity of Policy Making
2. On the April 1956 Policy Line of the Bulgarian Communist Party
3. Sociology and Its Impact on Political Practice
4. Policy-Making and the Assertion of the Science of Sociology in Bulgaria
Part Two Topical Social Problems and the Place of Science in their Solution
Chapter Three Scientific and Technological Revolution and the Modern World
1. Science and the Scientific and Technological Revolution
2. The Future of Scientific and Technological Progress; The Future and Scientific and Technological Progress
3. The Scientific and Technological Revolution—Two Systems, Two Types of Progress
Chapter Four Sociological Aspects of the Intellectualization of Social Practice
1. On the Nature of Intellectualization
2. Intellectualization—a Law-governed Historical Process
3. Intellectualization and Personality Factor
4. Education and Intettectualization of Social Practice
5. Science and Intellectualization
Chapter Five Efficiency—A Strategic Problem
1. Sociological Aspects of Efficiency
2. Efficiency and Science
3. Efficiency of Science
4. Scientific Policy and Efficiency
Chapter Six Multiplier Approach and Development of Science
1. Basic Characteristics of the Multiplier Approach
2. The Multiplier Effect
3. Multiplication of the Scientific Effect
Chapter Seven Intensification of Socio-economic Development
1. On the Nature of Intensification
2. Intensification—Science
Part Three Science as a Social Institution Facing the New Requirements of Social Development
Chapter Eight From Extensive to a Predominantly Intensive Development of Science
1. Intensification of Science—An Objective Necessity
2. Requirements and Possibilities
Chapter Nine Not Only Man ...
1. Intensive Development of the Material and Technological Basis of Science
2. Intensification of Scientific-Information Activity
Chapter Ten ... But Only through Man
1. General Ideas about the Scientific Manpower Potential in Bulgaria
2. On the Individual Subject of Scientific Activity
3. On the Scientific Community as a Collective Subject of Scientific
Activity
Index
- No. of pages: 234
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 22, 2013
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483117553
- eBook ISBN: 9781483149974
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