Features of sociological diagnostics of russian police and its media representation in the aspect of improving management quality

Abstract

The article considers theoretical and applied assessment of Russian police sociological diagnostics. In Russian society there is a problem of improving efficiency of internal affairs bodies management system, overcoming formalism, voluntarism, bureaucratization and other negative effects. In this article there are analyzed the general theoretical aspects of sociological diagnostics integration into the management practice of internal affairs bodies, the possibilities and limitations of quantitative and qualitative methodology of empirical analysis. The police is treated as a local and integrated institution of the institutional system, simultaneously represented in the social consciousness by the means of traditional and new media resources. The article presents the results of research investigation and methodological-oriented empirical study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of internal affairs bodies management system, as well as searching for weaknesses of sociological diagnostic system. The conclusion is formulated as follows: the symbiosis of quantitative and qualitative empirical sociology (based on theoretical and methodological constructs of positivism and phenomenology) allows establishment of feedback with the controlled object.