Lietuvos sociologijos orientacijos amžiui baigiantis

LTStraipsnyje siekiama apibūdinti Lietuvos sociologijos būklę ir jos pokyčius paskutiniajame XX a. dešimtmetyje, išryškinti pakitusias šios mokslo disciplinos kryptis. Autorė atskleidžia, kaip naujo tipo visuomenėje kho sociologijos funkcijos, kaip nauji reiškiniai sąlygojo sociologų darbų turinį bei mokslininkų bendrijos mąstymą. Aptariamo laikotarpio sociologinė informacija gilėjo ir plėtėsi, į šio mokslo apyvartą integravus naujas paradigmas ir požiūrius (ypač iš Vakarų), sociologijai suartėjant su kitais mokslais ir socialinėmis praktikomis. Remdamasi neformalių interviu metodu, autorė aptaria ir sociologų požiūrius į mokslo reformą. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Kultūros sociologija; Lietuvos sociologija; Lietuvos sociologijos būklė; Mokslo reforma; Paradigmos; Paradigmų pokyčiai; Socialiniai mokslai; Sociologija; Sociologiniai tyrimai; Sociologinė vaizduotė; Tyrimų sritys; Vertybių sociologija; Šeimos sociologija; Lithuanian sociology; Paradigms; Paradimatic changes; Research areas; Science reform; Social sciences; Sociological imagination; Sociological researches; Sociology; Sociology of culture; Sociology of family; Sociology of values; State of the Lithuanian sociology.

ENIn the article the changing functions and main research areas of national sociology are analyzed. The author displays how new paradigms of science and the revealing of new social phenomena enrich the sociological knowledge. Sociology (as self-knowledge of society, the possibility of more deep reflection of society development) is now in Lithuania as the hard agent in the struggle against the civilizational and cultural backwardness. The significant function of sociology (and social science) in democratic society is to provide the thinking of people with modern categories that means the extension of their understanding and activities. Sociological imagination is very efficient form of self-consciousness that helps the individual to conceptualize oneself, especially under new conditions of free-market economy and democracy. It is important how the society under democratic conditions understand social sciences, what the role of scientific community and the media stimulant is in public debate about social issues. The vocabulary and concepts of social sciences are becoming one of the ways we perceive, describe and analyse the world around us. But we lack the exhaustive information about the influence of sociology and other social, human sciences upon the way people think and understand human life.The discussions of national identity, citizenship, political culture, civil society, globalization and nation-state are very popular in mass media and social analyses. The radically new opportunities in the evolution from closed to open society demand the responsibility of sociologists. The development of sociology is related with the change of its community, which has the important role for attractiveness of this discipline for society. The process of creation of informational society, the development of intellectual culture of people in future will involve the need for more knowledge and reflection about social processes and their roots. The sociologists will be useful in modern society as experts in various spheres and as social leaders, magus, critics too; the prestige of sociologist will increase and his writings will be evaluated as the form of a symbolic capital of society. [From the publication]