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law problems of the state and law in foreign countries, and (4.) the information
Department.
Deputies to the Academician Secretary:
Osipov, Gennadii V., D. Phil. S. Born in 1929. Corresponding member of the
Philosophy and Law Department of the Academy since 1987; academician in 1993.
In 1991, he was made Director of the Sociopolitical Studies Institute in Moscow
which was organized in 1991. The institute has a staff of 109 researchers, 82 of
whom have advanced postgraduate degrees. Institute structure: The institute is
structured into three centers, two Departments, and four sectors as follows: Centers:
(1.) the center for sociopolitical and methodological problems with sectors on interethnic
relations, sociology of public consciousness, the sociology of religion, and a
group on social movements; (2.) the center for social information and public opinion
with a Department on comparative sociological studies, and (3.) the consultation
center for sociopolictical problems. Departments: (1.) the Department on the theory
and methodology of sociology with sectors on the preparation of manuals and
teaching aids on sociology, and the theory of sociology with groups on the
compilation of international and Soviet dictionaries on sociology, the creation and
use of systems of indicators and the explanation of indexes of social development;
(2.) the Department on fast public opinion polls. Sectors: (1.) the sector on
socioeconomic problems; (2.) the sector on the sociology of agriculture; (3.) the
sector on the sociology of youth, and (4.) the sector on the dynamics of social
groups. Current research thrusts: Research in this institute is subordinated to the
research program of the Department of Philosophy and Law of the AN SSSR
(Russian Academy) and all of it is under the general supervision of Director G. V.
Osipov.
Stepin, Viacheslav S., D. Phil. S. Corresponding member of the Philosophy and Law
Department of the Academy since 1987; academician in 1993. In 1988, he was
named the Director of the Philosophy Institute in Moscow that dates back to 1929
and researches all aspects of philosophy. It was in this institute that the first
sociological sections were formed. The Institute for Sociological Research and the
Institute of Concrete Social Research both grew out of this institute. The institute has
a staff of some 326 researchers of whom 101 hold doctoral degrees and 169 have
candidate degrees. There are two academicians and four corresponding members of
the Russian Academy of Sciences on the staff. The institute has six Departments
with sectors and three laboratories: (1.) dialectics, the theory of cognition and logic:
the theory of cognition; the theory of dialectics; general methodology of science, and
philosophical problems of thinking and creative work; (2.) philosophy of science
and technology: patterns of historical development of sciences; socioethnic problems
of science; philosophy of physics; philosophy of biology, and philosophy of technology;
(3.) social philosophy: historical materialism; philosophical and
methodological problems of the social sciences; philosophy of politics, and a
Laboratory for Philosophical Problems of Ethnology; (4.) philosophical
anthropology, ethics and esthetics: philosophical problems of man; ethics; esthetics,
and philosophy of culture; (5.) history of Marxist philosophy and problems of
socialism: Marxist philosophy in the 19th-early 20th centuries; Marxist philosophical
thought in the 20th century, and concepts of socialism and modern civilization; (6.)
the history of philosophy: history of Western philosophy; history of Russian
philosophy; philosophy of the non-Soviet Orient, and contemporary Western
philosophy--with laboratories in post-classical philosophy (literature, arts, and
policy); sociocultural forecasting; coordination of philsophical and social problems
of science and technology. Stepin is heading research in the human dimension of
scientific-technical progress.
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