Sociology and Social Practice

Sociology 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.

Contenu

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
4. Sociology and the Scientific Validity of Policy Making
5. On the April 1956 Policy Line of the Bulgarian Communist Party
6. Sociology and Its Impact on Political Practice
7. 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
8. Science and the Scientific and Technological Revolution
9. The Future of Scientific and Technological Progress; The Future and Scientific and Technological Progress
10. The Scientific and Technological Revolution-Two Systems, Two Types of Progress
    Chapter Four Sociological Aspects of the Intellectualization of Social Practice
11. On the Nature of Intellectualization
12. Intellectualization-a Law-governed Historical Process
13. Intellectualization and Personality Factor
14. Education and Intettectualization of Social Practice
15. Science and Intellectualization
    Chapter Five Efficiency-A Strategic Problem
16. Sociological Aspects of Efficiency
17. Efficiency and Science
18. Efficiency of Science
19. Scientific Policy and Efficiency
    Chapter Six Multiplier Approach and Development of Science
20. Basic Characteristics of the Multiplier Approach
21. The Multiplier Effect
22. Multiplication of the Scientific Effect
    Chapter Seven Intensification of Socio-economic Development
23. On the Nature of Intensification
24. 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
25. Intensification of Science-An Objective Necessity
26. Requirements and Possibilities
    Chapter Nine Not Only Man ...
27. Intensive Development of the Material and Technological Basis of Science
28. Intensification of Scientific-Information Activity
    Chapter Ten ... But Only through Man
29. General Ideas about the Scientific Manpower Potential in Bulgaria
30. On the Individual Subject of Scientific Activity
31. On the Scientific Community as a Collective Subject of Scientific
    Activity
    Index