On clustering thematic reports of a scientific seminar in sociological research

The article deals with the topical issue of sociological research of the management process of scientific seminars organization, puts forward a number of hypotheses for the evaluation of this process, the result of substantiation of the subject of discursive, content and cluster analysis of the correspondence of the topics of reports to the seminar directions according to the rubrics of UDC, LBC, GRNTI classifiers on the example of permanent scientific seminars of institutions of the Department of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The sociological study was aimed at confirming the possibility of using the tools of cluster analysis for modern remote forms of scientific communication in theoretical and practical aspects of the management process of organizing scientific seminars. The relevance of the study of the possibility of clustering the topics of reports of the remote scientific seminar is associated with the increase in the effectiveness of the management process in the practical activities of scientific communities.