"Structuralists" and "Industrial sociologists": on the history of studying social professional groups in the USSR, 1960-1980th
Explanatory resources of Soviet sociology are studies with regard to sociology of vocation and professions. Author accentuates studies of social structure of the Soviet society as a frame to investigate social professional groups. Contributions of “industrial sociology” are emphasized as a movement of paramount significance for the making of many sociological disciplines, including sociology of employment and professions in Russia.