The concept of intervention in sociology, psychology and clinical sociology. The Foreword to the book «International clinical sociology»

Sociology has always had a number of paradigms, and that meant tension, intellectual, and sometimes political, conflicts between individual paradigms. But one conflict has been a constant: the contrasting perspectives of "actor" and prospects of "the system", even if known to sociologists — that is, those that provided the most significant intellectual influence in General tried to "connect" or to combine these two positions. Sometimes the same social thinkers or scientists knew in his intellectual life moments when the dominant was the first run, and moments when second. In the 60-ies, for example, the French sociologist and Marxist Louis Althusser suggested that Karl Marx can be considered as two different people: the young Marx was subjectivist and much more interested in the concept of action (action), whereas the Mature Marx, but was rather scientists and oriented position, and he developed his analysis of capitalism as a system of domination.