Open AccessEvolution in the Soviet Sociology of Work: From Ideology to Pragmatism
Author(s) -
Vladimir Shlapentokh
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
the carl beck papers in russian and east european studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-839X
pISSN - 0889-275X
DOI - 10.5195/cbp.1985.17
Subject(s) - pragmatism , ideology , work (physics) , principal (computer security) , sociology , epistemology , social science , object (grammar) , positive economics , political science , politics , law , engineering , operating system , linguistics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , computer science , economics
This paper will examine the history of developments in the Soviet sociology of work, focusing particularly on research on attitudes toward work. The principal object of analysis will be the developments in empirical sociological research in the USSR since 1953, with an effort to explain the origins of the concepts recently circulating in soviet literature on work. It is also important to include a brief discussion of the views of worker attitudes dominant during the stalin era, for these have had a strong impact on the subsequent work of soviet sociologists. An examination of the stakhanovite movement of the 1930s will be used to describe these attitudes.