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Governance and Problem Analysis Center is going to publish the book by S.G.Kara-Murza “Crisis social science” containing analysis of the most widescale crises in Russia in the 20th century and efforts of social sciences researches to understand and explain these events. The author looks for reasons for incomprehension of mass social processes by social science as a scientific field and explains origins of major myths of mass social consciousness during crisis periods of Russian history. Here is the extract from the book:
“Since the end of the 20th century Russia is in system crisis situation. Heaviness and duration of the crisis are mainly caused by the fact that by its beginning in the USSR social science had failed. It failed as a specific system of knowledge.
One of the major reasons for that is weak development or even absence of rational (pragmatic, scientific) component of social science, prevalence of ideological pathos. There is a famous Andropov’s statement: “We don’t know society we live in”.
The reason is fundamental: industrial society can not be described in the framework of traditional, ordinary knowledge. The core of social knowledge should be rational, of scientific type. Russian social science unlike Western grew up not from science, but from Russia classical literature and German romantic philosophy. In Soviet time it was supplemented with Marksizm – strong constituent element of romantic philosophy.
Soviet social science, which in terms of methodology is closer to natural philosophy than to science, has come to grief. It was unable to foresee catastrophic system crisis at the close of the 20th century and it even legitimatized destructive activities of 1990s.
Collapse of Russian social science was caused by deviation from studying fundamental issues. Seems like they didn’t exist at all, in the course of the crisis process there was no chance at least to discuss them. The notion of choice was excluded. Irrational was the very slogan of Perestroika – “There is no other way!”, which excludes alternative category from analysis…”
Date of publication: June 2011.
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