Игорь Кон: «То, чем занимался я, этим никто другой не занимался»

Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2019. № 6. С. 351–381.

Pugacheva M.

In this interview we are talking with outstanding Russian sociologist and philosopher Igor S. Kon about history of the revival of Soviet sociology in the early 1960s as well as about history of the Institute of Sociology. The narrative begins with a story of the emergence of relations with the Russian and American sociologist Pitirim A. Sorokin, and, more broadly, with a story of the review of Western ideas in Russian sociology. In this regard, a specific place takes the story of Soviet censorship and Kon’s attempts to influence the change in the rules for its implementation in the field of science. Distinct subjects are the ‘seminar movement’ in sociology, seminars of Yuri Levada, sociologists’ meetings in Kääriku. Names of many prominent Soviet sociologists who stood at the origins of the revival of sociology in Russia are mentioned.

Keywords: цензура, Igor Kon, Игорь Кон, история советской социологии, Питирим Сорокин, семинары по социологии, history of soviet sociology, Pitirim Sorokin, Soviet censorship, reviews of Western sociology, meetings in Kääriku, спецхран, рецепции западных идей, встречи в Кяярику

Publication based on the results of: Between The Political Theology and The Expressive Symbolism: discursive formations of the late modernity as a challenge to the social order (2019)