FROM BUREAUCRACY TO GOVERNMENT: STAGES AND FEATURES OF INTERPRETATIONS OF STATE ADMINISTRATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
The purpose of the article is to consider the stages and features of the evolution of the concept of "state administration" in the history of Russian sociology of management and the analysis of its modern interpretations. The methodology of the research is based on the provisions and concepts as a classical sociological theory (M. Weber, K. Marx, A. Fayol), and on some developments of modern domestic and foreign scientists (R. Drago, A.I. Prigozhin, Zh.T. Toshchenko). Dialectical and systematic methods, methods of historicism and structural and functional analysis, elements of the method of linguistic analysis of scientific literature were used in the preparation of the article. As a result of the study, six main periods in the formation of views of domestic sociological schools on the concept under study are chronologically identified and the results of each of the periods are compared. The interpretation of the socio-managerial category "public administration" is presented, its relationship with another category - "public administration" is shown. The author comes to the conclusion that the evolution of the concept under consideration was decisively influenced not only by objective social needs, but also by subjective requests of state power. At the same time, in the process of development of domestic socio-managerial thought, "extremes" in the interpretations of this concept were gradually overcome.