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Мартовские тезисы о социологии равенства и неравенства
"March theses on sociology of equality and inequality" (by Anatoly Gofman) offers a look on the dichotomic state of everyday and academic views on these crucial societal issues - in form of 20 theses. The dichotomy, so author, is justified in case of everyday consciousness, while scholarly studies should view it in a close relationship, interdependence and interaction, like a continuum. Absolute and relative equality (inequality) has to be differentiated, as well as respective values and ideals have to be contrasted with real factual conditions. Reviewing historicity of the issue author formulates an assumption that instead of equality and inequality, equalities and inequalities have to be addressed in academic discourse. Final theses relate the issue to current Russian conditions linking overall theoretical conclusions to practices of economic and social policies.