Personality, Scientist, Organizer (a round table on the S. A. Kugel scholarly heritage)
Ablazhey A.M.
Cand. Sci. (Philos.), Leading Researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Law SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia ablazhey@academ.org
Asheulova N.A.
Cand. Sci. (Sociol.), Director, Saint‑St. Petersburg Branch of the S.I. Vavilov Institute of the History of Natural Sciences and Technology of the RAS, Saint‑Petersburg, Russia asheulova_n@bk.ru
Allakhverdyan A.G.
Cand. Sci. (Sociol.), Senior Researcher at the S. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of RAS, Moscow, Russia sisnek@list.ru
Boronoev A.O.
Dr. Sci. (Philos.), Honorary Prof., Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia pavlovasoc@mail.ru
Rabkin Ya.M.
Emeritus Prof. of History, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada yakov.rabkin@umontreal.ca
Rodny A.N.
Dr. Sci. (Chemist.), Chief Researcher, Department of History of Biological and Chemical Sciences, S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of RAS, Москва, Russia anrodny@gmail.com
Romanovich N.А.
Dr. Sci. (Sociol.), Prof., Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Voronezh Branch); General Director Public Opinion Institute «Qualitas», Voronezh, Russia nelly@qualitas.ru
Fedorova A.A.
Cand. Sci. (Sociol.), Scientific Secretary, Department of the History of Evolutionary Theory and Ecology, S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the RAS – St. Petersburg Branch, St. Petersburg, Russia. an-f@list.ru
Ablazhey A.M., Asheulova N.A., Allakhverdyan A.G., Boronoev A.O., Rabkin Ya.M., Rodny A.N., Romanovich N.А., Fedorova A.A. Personality, Scientist, Organizer (a round table on the S. A. Kugel scholarly heritage). Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2024. No 12. P. 3-12
The materials of the round table dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the famous Russian sociologist Samuel Aronovich Kugel are presented. S. A. Kugel (1924, Minsk – 2015, St. Petersburg) – Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Honored Scientist, one of the first organizers of the sociology of science and science studies in Soviet and Russian sociology. The round table was held on October 30–31, 2024 at the St. Petersburg branch of the S. I. Vavilov Institute of the History of Natural Sciences and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, it was attended by colleagues, friends, and students of S. A. Kugel. The key aspects of the scientist’s scholary heritage were discussed, including his contribution to the sociology of science and technology, the study of the professional structure of scientific personnel, as well as his organizational activities, in particular the creation of a sociological and scientific center in Leningrad. Attention was paid to S. A. Kugel’s international academic relations and his role in the development of the sociological community in the USSR and Russia. The memoirs are presented, the characteristics of his personality are given, including his attention to perpetuating the memory of the Great Patriotic War.
Encyclopedia of Sociology. (1995) Moscow: ISPR RAS: 260–262. (In Russ.)
Gvishiani D. M., Mikulinsky S. R., Kugel S. A. (eds) (1973) Scientific and Technological Revolution and Changes in the Structure of Scientific Personnel in the USSR. Moscow: Nauka. (In Russ.)
Kavunenko L. F., Valenteichik T. N. (2020) Predetermination and Surprise: Scientometric Essays on Citation Leaders Among Historians of Science and Technology. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, H. M. Dobrov Institute for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies. Moscow: UNITY-DANA. (In Russ.)
Kelle V.J., Kugel S.A. (eds) (1991) Scientific personnel of the USSR: dynamics and structure. Moscow: Mysl'. (In Russ.)
Kugel S. A. (1983) Professional Mobility in Science. Moscow: Mysl'. (Sociology and Life). (In Russ.)
Kugel S. A. (1999) Sociological Research on Science in Leningrad–St. Petersburg in the 1960s–1990s. Naukovedenie [Science Studies]. No. 4: 167–183. (In Russ.)
Kugel S. A. (2005) Notes of a Sociologist. St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg: Nestor- History, St. Petersburg Institute of History, RAS. (In Russ.)
Kugel S. A. (2006) Samuil Aronovich Kugel (K. S. Erokhina, N. A. Ashcheulova, Eds.; foreword by Yu. S. Vasiliev, Vl. Zh. Kelle). St. Petersburg: Nestor- Istoriya. (Materials for a bio-bibliography of historians of science and technology; Iss. 4). (In Russ.)
Kugel S. A. (ed.) (1994) The Intellectual Elite of St. Petersburg, Part 2, Book 1, 2. St. Petersburg. (In Russ.)
Kugel S. A., Nikandrov O. M. (1971) Young Engineers: Sociological Problems of Engineering Activity. Moscow. (In Russ.)
Kugel S. A., Shkaratan O. I. (1965) Some Methodological Problems of Studying the Social Structure of Society. Filosofskie nauki [Philosophical Sciences]. No. 1: 55–64. (In Russ.)