Integrative Sociological Theories and Crisis Social Management: on theWay to Theoretical – Practical Synthetic Conceptions

Abstract

The focus of the problem, which is considered in the work, are those possible transformations in the research practices of modern sociology, which are related to the actual changes in sociocultural space on a global scale. First of all, we are talking about the global world crisis, which is observed in different social fields - economics, ecology, culture, morality, law, politics, science, education, and whose wave of ascertainment only increases. The last such large-scale statement was the report of the Club of Rome (2018p). On the other hand, in the cultural space, the post-modern period is replaced by a new cultural era, which, according to forecasts, will shift the emphasis from decentration to a search for a new unity, from analysis to synthesis, from elementalism to holism. Against this background, it is logical to expect significant changes in the practices of sociological cognition, where it is possible to predict the return of interest in large-scale integrative theories, the search for conceptual schemes that organically combine the macro, meso and micro levels of social reality, viewed it with a significant emphasis on complexity, and the variability of all social phenomena. A large-scale social crisis requires more attention of sociologists to social technologies and managerial practices, which are an attempt to overcome the problems generated by this crisis. The article makes the assumption that a new round of demand for systematic, integrative sociological theories will be accompanied by a request from social technologists to present these theories in the form of theoretical-pragmatic concepts that would reduce the distance between strictly scientific and managerial cognitive models. Based on his own experience of integrative conceptualization of social tension, the author concludes heuristic potentiality of using as a platform for constructing synthetic pragmatic models of combining three paradigmatic approaches: 1) Complexity theory (macrolevel); 2) network paradigm (mesolevel); 3) the paradigm of practices (microlevel).