Sociology. Theoretical Trends and Methodological Shifts. A Set of 4 Books

The set consists of three volumes (4 books) and represents a synthesis of the author's 40-year activity in the field of methodology, theory, and history of sociology.

The first volume covers classical and modern theories of social tension, anomie, and degradation; the individual in societal and sociological context, including the individual in the history of philosophy; the theory of the "looking-glass self"; symbolic interactionism and the dramaturgical sociology of E. Goffman; ethnomethodology and the Stanford prison experiment by F. Zimbardo; existential sociology and stratification models of homo sapiens; the statics and dynamics of social action by Max Weber; sociological interpretations of bureaucracy; issues of loneliness and social isolation, among others.

The second volume addresses the following issues: the scientific picture as an ontological scheme of social reality, the paradigmatic crisis of sociology in light of T. Kuhn's theory, forms and types of social deformation, social bifurcationism and social entropy, social chaos and social ambivalence; new areas of social knowledge: neurosociology, nanopsychology, astrosociology, neuroeconomics, and nanoeconomics, nanophilosophy; nanosociology and its implementations: nanorisk in the mirror of public opinion, transhumanism and the overcoming of humanity, small worlds in a networked society, the language of nanoscience as a cultural phenomenon, nanotechnology and nanoethics; the metaphorical language of sociology and physics, metaphors at all levels of sociological research; justice in the system of sociological binarity, social transformed forms and alienation, from industrial to network society, theories of social space, sociological theories of capitalism.

The third volume consists of two parts and includes intra-scientific questions of sociology, namely: the structure and features of sociological theory, verification and falsification, theory and methodology of deceitful variables, qualitative and quantitative methodology, main categories of sociology, methodology of practical implementation, social roles of practitioners, social engineering, quantophrenia and percentage mania, sociological perspectives, the irreducibility of common sense from sociology, dualism of social reality and scientific theory, realism and nominalism in sociology, value neutrality, social ontology and epistemology, positivism in sociology and post-nonclassical science, public sociology, interventionist sociology, phenomenological sociology, sociology beyond academic neutrality, applied research as a form of social activism, narodnik sociology, indigenization and westernization of sociology, popular sociology, palliative sociology.

This is for a wide and interested audience of readers engaged in independent research work, as well as for those who wish to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of sociological science in terms of scientific education.