Humanitarian Education in Russian Universities: A Secondary Analysis and Experimental “Pilot” Research (on the example of teaching philosophy)

Abstract

The article describes an attempt to study some concrete aspects in the functioning of the higher education system and its structural components. The state of humanitarian (philosophical, in particular) education in modern Russia is in the focus of research and is studied with the help of the methods of empirical sociology. The author makes use of both the “secondary analysis” of the data collected by other researchers, and the materials of his own pilot studies of the problems in Russian higher education.

Keywords

• уровни социологического знания
• социология образования
• система образования
• структура системы образования
• вторичный анализ социологической информации
• пилотажное исследование
• преподавание философии в вузе
• эмпирические социологические исследования высшего образования в СССР и постперестроечной России
• государственные образовательные стандарты высшего профессионального образования