SOCIOLOGY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONAS A SCIENTIFIC DIRECTION AND A SPHERE OF PRACTICAL ACTIVITY

DOI: 10.31673/2786-7412.2025.024056

Abstract

The use of sociological methods to measure public opinion has become
an important part of the influence of these tools on the development of social technologies
in public administration. In particular, they allow studying political and administrative
reforms not only from the point of view of their relationship with generalized indicators
of the countryʼs development, but also with the opinion of the population, etc. Recently,
the volume of research on the social effectiveness of public administration has been
growing, and this growing volume of research has borrowed an interdisciplinary
approach to the analysis of public administration systems. The article confirms that sociology is closely related to the study and practice of public administration in various
aspects.
The purpose of the study, the results of which are highlighted in this article, was
to determine the object-subject area of the scientific direction of sociology of public
administration, taking into account the scope of its practical application.
In the process of research, it is shown that the main instrument of mutual influence
of the governing and governed social systems is public opinion, the content of which
determines the willingness of individual individuals and groups to follow the proposed
social norms in everyday practice. Using sociological methods of diagnostics,
prognostics, programming and monitoring of public opinion, public authorities
determine the ways of forming on its basis the conforming behavior of members of society,
which allows the political elite not to lose the trust of the people.
The author claims that the sociology of public administration is a kind of
«cornerstone» of information and analytical support of public administration processes
- an interdisciplinary branch of social sciences that studies the system and processes of
public administration that are formed in the process of social development in the
conditions of interaction of management systems with other social systems and individual
individuals; management mechanisms of social changes; patterns of social actions and
behavior of people included in the management system.
It is determined that the sociological component of information and analytical
support of public administration processes is a permanently cyclical system of
diagnostics, forecasting, programming, planning and monitoring, both of social
processes as a whole and of public administrative influence on them.

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