Organicism in Russia: the sociological theory of A.I. Stronin. Part 1

the article deals with A.I. Stronin's concept of organicism in the perspective of sociological study of society. The analysis of the sociologist's original ideas was based on such methods as organicist, comparativist, comparative-historical, systemic, structural-functional and historical-sociological. The article deals with the development of A.I. Stronin's ideas as a social researcher of society as an organism, his research methodology, social laws and social interactions between social strata and groups. The transformation of the sociologist's ideas, who passed the way from a social rebel to a representative of social reformism, is shown. It is revealed that for Stronin social laws are influenced by both natural science and social-humanitarian knowledge, a special mechanism of cognition of society (hypothetical, observational, analogical) is proposed, and his pyramidal variant of social stratification is suggested. A.I. Stronin's ideas anticipated the concepts of the ideal type of M.I. Weber, social stratification of F. Giddings and P.A. Sorokin, functional and structural-functional ideas of E. Durkheim and T. Parsons.

оrganicism, positivism, aggregates of knowledge, hypotheticals, observationalism, analogy, scientific production