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The Directors of this institute through its many organizational and name changes
were: A. M. Rumiantsev (1968-71); N. I. Lapin (1971-72); N. M. Rutkevich
(1972-76); T. V. Riabushkin (1976-83); V. N. Ivanov (1983-88), and since 1988 it
has been headed by Vladimir A. Yadov, D. Phil. S. The institute has a staff of 284
researchers among whom 36 have doctorates and 128 hold candidate degrees. The
institute has two members who are corresponding members of the Russian Academy
of Sciences.
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Institute structure: The institute is divided into Departments, sectors, groups,
laboratories, and collectives as follows: Departments:
(1.) the theoretical and methodological problems of sociology Department with a sector on
general sociological theory and groups on terminological elaborations and indexes
and tendencies of social development of Soviet society;
(2.) the social demography Department with groups on social problems of migration,
problems of health, and problems of demographic development;
(3.) sociopolitical problems and ideological processes Department with sectors on social and
ideological problems of affirmation of the “new thinking”, ideological processes,
inter ethnic relations, sociopolitical interests of youth in the field of inter ethnic
relations, sociological problems of restructuring the political system, church-state
relations, and groups on inter ethnic relations of the peoples of the USSR, analysis
of tensions in inter ethnic relations, and sociopolitical analysis of concepts;
(4.) the methodology of sociological research, information and methodical provision
Department with sectors on methods of comparative analysis and data quality,
information provision and groups on sampling techniques and telephone interviews;
(5.) the study of public opinion Department with sectors on public opinion and moods,
operative study of public opinion, and public opinion of Muscovites.
The sectors include:
(1.) the sector on the history of non-Marxist sociology with groups on the history of
theoretical sociology, the history of empirical sociology, and a group on the
sociological heritage;
(2.) the sector on the history of Marxist-Leninist sociology;
(3.) the sector on the social efficiency of social production;
(4.) the sector on the social problems of working collectives;
(5.) the sector on the sociology of the village;
(6.) the sector on the social development of the intelligentsia with a group on the sociology
of technology;
(7.) the sector on social problems of youth with a group on life tracks of generation s;
(8.) the sector on the dynamics of positions of social groups;
(9.) the sector on problems of new political thinking in international relations;
(10.) the sector on comprehensive research on life styles;
(11.) the sector on work and leisure time;
(12.) the sector on family social problems;
(13.) the sector on young families;
(14.) the sector on the methodology of analysis of social processes with a group on the
study of human ecology;
(15.) the sector on forecasting and the evaluation of social innovations;
(16.) the sector on processing and classification of data.
The groups include:
(1.) the group on problems of production self-government;
(2.) the group on the regulation of distributional relations;
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