The present article will discuss empirical sociological research techniques and the principal difficulties that arise in this work.

Various crisis phenomena in our country's system of socioeco-nomic and political relations have generated a question that was unusual yesterday but that is customary today: is this socialism? There are also answers to this question: either declarationsappealing for their newnessthat our society...

Economic behavior taken in pure form incorporates elements that are averaged so as to create the appearance that man's aspirations are universal. This image disappears when we begin to examine the economic order that is formed by the modes of distribution of limited resources and goods as the...

It is well known that the practice of coercion and violence is quite widespread in Russian economic relations. Economists consider it to be a harmful outgrowth that impedes the development of a "normal economy," and do not regard it as a topic of study, preserving the purity of their economic...