UDC

316.77

Authors

Ulyanovsky Viktor Ivanovich
Institute of Economics and Management, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov; Arkhangelsk Scientific Сentre, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Arkhangelsk, Russia)

Abstract

The paper dwells on the peculiarities of civil humanism of P.A. Sorokin’s sociological concept, based
on a number of his works written during his life in Russia and the USA. In these works, the issues of
morality and value of human life are closely intertwined with politics. Culture and altruistic love prove to
be the main sources of humanization in human history. Further, the paper unlocks the heuristic potential
of the social space concept and the contradictory nature of social mobility in contemporary Russian
society. Wealth appears to be an essential means of social mobility, allowing people to move within a
social hierarchy and get promoted.

Keywords

social space, humanistic potential, integral personality, social institutions, social mobility, social stratification

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