The object specificity of the «strong» and «weak» versions of social constructivism in the modern cognitive sociology of science

The author analyzes developing of microsociological research, whose paradigm is designated in western philosophy of science of the last third of XX century. Just within the competence of microsociological research (research of concrete situations that appear during the process of scientist's cognitive activity, «case-studies») rich empirical material is formed. It allows to trace an interconnection of cognitive and social structures of science, to take a view of science as a subsystem of culture, to establish relations between separate elements of the scientific knowledge and sociocultural context, where the scientific knowledge is formed. It's shown in the article that standart conception of the science represents the aggregate of gnosi-ological, epistemological and methodological interpretations of nature and morphology of the formed scientific knowledge, ways of receiving and explanation of the knowledge, interpretation of scientific character ideals. And revision of the standart conception of the science become the ideological basis that defined the specificity of cognitive sociology of science. The author attempts to designate the differences of the «strong» and «weak» versions of social constructivism in the modern cognitive sociology of science.

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