Melnikov A. The Sociological Imagination of Edward Tiryakian: Imaginative Logic of Construction of Sociological Theory.

Object: sociological theory of Edward Tiryakian; Goal: definition of dynamic characteristics of Edward Tiryakian's sociological imagination; Research methods: general scientific (analysis, synthesis, comparison, abstraction, typologisation) and empirical methods - interviewing and document analysis; Theoretical and practical results: conception of sociological imagination is established by which heuristic regularities and imaginative logic of construction of Edward Tiryakian's sociological theory are defined; Novelty: decision of the important research problem of the grounding of sociological imagination conception as historical-sociological method of research the specifics in sociological theory construction by contemporary American sociologist Edward Tiryakian; Degree of application: conditions and conclusions of this research can be used as basis for innovative teaching model for sociology major students and also for modification of educational process in the system of higher education, in the process of teaching courses on "Sociology of Knowledge", "Sociology of Culture", "Existential Sociology", "Sociology of Religion", etc.