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Currently, you can find many social processes that are not well explained from the position of sociological theory. These include the growth of practices of symbolic consumption, an increase in the level of deviation and crime, the spread of social and mental stress in society. Sociologists offer many explanations for these phenomena, but they are explanations of symptoms and effects, not causes. The most striking confirmation of the inability of the theory to exhaustively explain the processes taking place is the...

This article is devoted to the peculiarities of teaching microsocial studies of students and PhD students in universities. The authors substantiate the difference between microsocial research and sociological research, placing emphasis on the need to study first as much as the latter. The fact is that the problems of a small sample and a deviation from a normal distribution can be solved by using nonparametric statistics, qualitative methods, big data, web 3.0 and case-study strategies. This article details the fe...