Transformation Models of Explanation in the Social Sciences: The Utopian Imagination as a Resource for Sociological Theorizing[Трансформация Моделей Объяснения В Социальных Науках: Утопическое Воображение Как Ресурс Социологического Теоретизирования]

The paper analyzes the potential and development of explanatory concept of "utopian imagination", the distinction between epistemic and normative dimensions of utopia. We consider the research programs in which the negation of the principle of neutrality of the value qualifies as a utopian practice in the normative sense, the class of Utopias that build linkages between social order and human nature (anthropological utopia), as well as the connection between the utopian imagination and the actual sociological thinking style. Stand stable characteristics of the utopian imagination, which combine epistemic and normative measure utopia: criticism, imazhinativnost, Universalism, Constructivism, transcendentism, denial of everyday life. Implemented conceptualization of the concept of "utopian imagination" as a common element of competing models explaining the social order. Using the concept of heterotopia made case report - an example of the ethnographic museum. Based on the consideration of the possibility of everyday morality it demonstrates that people in the performance of their practical activities also rely on the resources of the imagination. Substantiates the existence of different types of everyday imagination.