THE ABSTRACTS OF THE LECTURE ON THE TOPIC ?THE SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH AT THE SYSTEM OF SCIENCES? FOR THE COURSE ?SOCIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF THE PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCHES?

This paper represents an abstract of the first lecture for the course ?Sociological problems of public opinion researches? that is included in the state standard of professional education on the speciality 020300 ?Sociology?. Two main questions are discussed: the subject of public opinion sociology and the specific of sociological approach to public opinion research