Open AccessRemembering Oleg Nikolaevich Yanitsky, a Great Scientist and an Extraordinary Person
Author(s) -
Olga A. Basheva
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sociologičeskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1684-1581
pISSN - 1562-2495
DOI - 10.19181/socjour.2020.26.4.7648
Subject(s) - urbanism , sociology , resource (disambiguation) , action (physics) , field (mathematics) , social science , environmental ethics , epistemology , history , philosophy , archaeology , computer network , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , computer science , pure mathematics , architecture
This article presents the main milestones in the professional biography of Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Oleg Nikolayevich Yanitsky — an environmental sociologist, urbanist, researcher of the Russian environmental movement, one of the founders of Russian environmental sociology; the main methods and principles of his work; the ideas on which the concepts he developed are based, in particular, the concept of urbanization as a world-historical process of intensifying communication and integrating various forms of practical life activities, the interdisciplinary concept of a modern big city being a socio-biotechnical system, the concept of a society of universal risk, the concept of the primary eco-structure and individual resource field as a social microstructure, created to give eco-activists enhanced opportunities for social action.