What treatment do sociological data deserve?

What treatment do sociological data deserve? (by Irina Boutenko) considers not rare cases (both in Russia recently as well as internationally, a fact known from life stories of many outstanding sociologists) of unintentionally falsified data, related speculations and manipulations in front of the public occurring in the leading Russian sociological publications. Psychological premises for this sacrifice of scholarly data to theories are discussed with resultant conclusion that sociologist's position tends to frequently be affected by duality featuring lacking delimitation between everyday knowledge and scholarly information accessibly to authors in question as well as their excessive infatuation with the subject thus elaborated, Role of methodological reflection is emphasized as a must for more adequate data treatment in the course of scholarly investigation and public presentation.