"Manageability: sociological theoretical analysis of notions" looks into the nature of a field of notions linked to manageability understood for this case as social manageability. The study is based on academic texts in Russian and European languages. The author sees it as a quality of interconnected elements that is of subjects, institutes and connections between them. Criteria of manageabiligy are scrutinized as they are studied in sociology and the theory of management. Prospects of sociological studies of manageability are discussed against the background of managed fields in the social space.