Organicism in Russia: the sociological theory of A.I. Stronin. Part 2

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, sociosynergetic, structural-functional, psychoanalytical 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 ideas of the sociologist, who passed the way from a social rebel to a representative of social reformism, is shown. Such social laws as general biological, general sociological and general political laws, social actors as subjects of social fluctuations, and a complex mechanism of social stage-by-stage development within the framework of realization of the sociological cyclic formula “ideas-laws-laws-morals-customs-traditions” are revealed. A. I. Stronin's ideas anticipated M. Weber's concepts of ideal type, social stratification, and social stratification. Weber, social stratification of F. Giddings and P.A. Sorokin, functional and structural-functional ideas of E. Durkheim and T. Parsons, ideas of social synergetics, indirectly predicted the problems of social system development in the Russian Empire and the USSR.

оrganicism, positivism, general biological law, general sociological law, general political law, subjects of social fluctuations, “ideas-laws-intellects-morals-customs-traditions”