Contemporary Sociology

The discipline of sociology is experiencing a crisis as theoretical development has halted, the field of investigation has fragmented into a series of unrelated endeavors, and the goal of objectivity has been abandoned. Sociology in Russia has not escaped this, and the situation there is further complicated by a failure to become knowledgeable in sophisticated techniques of research and analysis, the dying out of the most creative sociologists, and reluctance to address issues that may be politically dangerous.