HUMANISTIC SENSE APPROACH IN MICROSOCIOLOGY

Abstract

In modern sociology, experiencing a paradigm crisis, humanistic sense approach is formed. It retains the humanistic tradition of phenomenological sociology and microanalysis, focuses on the person as a chief expert of their own life and its meaning. The paper contains the basic features, principles, methodical specifications of the young approach. This approach is based on the interpretive paradigm, but involves intense methodological potential, combining elements of macro- and micro-analysis. This solves many modern methodological problems in the humanities. This approach can be used for studying people and society as interacting with the help of the subjects senses, for studying processes of these interactions. The potential of analyzing the human life sense in the cultural and historical period is illustrated by the example of Art Nouveau. The vectors of development and the importance of this approach in the future are shown.