| Abstract: | In August 1993, Professor Vladimir Shubkin, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, celebrated his seventieth birthday. Professor Shubkin's name is associated with the revival of Soviet sociology in the 1960s. One of the creators of the Siberian school of sociology, he established a number of new directions in the theory and methodology of research. His books Quantitative Methods in Sociology, Sociological Experiments, and The Beginning of the Road are standards of scientific analysis of social problems. |
