sociology

This article examines the problem of developing methodology and research tools in sociology and other humanities. On the basis of methodological paradigms classification, proposed by Zhan Toschenko, the constructive paradigm possessing a great heuristic potential for studying the social realities of contemporary Russia is presented. Therefore the shortcomings inherent in the traditional analytical model are overcome.

This article analyzes the transformation of the social representations of the category «health» over the historical development of society. Using the concept of Western sociological naturalism, social Darwinism, Russian organisticheskoy school shows the relationship of the biological nature of human and social health of society. A sociological understanding of the value of health in everyday practices on the basis of structural-functional analysis, understanding sociology, phenomenological sociology, postmodernism, vitalist sociology and others.