Preservation of the history of people’s everyday life as one of the important functions of sociology (on the example of the journal “Telescope”)

The main focus of the article is on the publications of the first years of the journal, when its original title “’Telescope’: Observations on the everyday life of Petersburgers” accurately reflected the direction of the journal. The article argues that sociology is akin to photography and documentary films — the results of research allow us to preserve and transmit to the future the description of time in those facts, details, angles that are available specifically to sociology.