A lot of controversy and discussion has grown up around the very concept of the individual subject within sociology, and all of these results to a certain degree from its ambiguity. Various theoretical currents and orientations present a different comprehension of the category of individual subject. The main aim of the theoretical research into the subject within the framework of the present paper is to show the historical diversity in the category of the individual subject as well as its theoretical cognitive status within contemporary sociology. It follows to emphasise that the analysis does not claim to be exhaustive as a result of the fact that it is able to cover only certain selected theoretical positions within its scope. The analysis of the conceptions of the subject within the presented article has the aim, first and foremost, of presenting the diversity in the ways of defining the individual subject in contemporary sociology. To a lesser extent the matter involves the showing of a potential cause-result relation, which would directly link the model of the subject with a concrete society, at a definite time in its historical development. Such a relationship is possible to maintain though only given the premise that specific theories directly result from the social reality in which they came about. Besides the discursive question it follows to state that the essence of the analysis is the individual subject, how it is described and explained on the basis of selected sociological theories.
