The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

Sociology of scientific knowledge is a relatively new complement to sociology and appeared just a few decades ago in the late 1970s, focusing on scientific theories and methods. It is seen as an amazing success in the field of sociology and science sociology. In the early days, SSK was an academic initiative mainly in the UK. Today, it has been studied and practiced all over the world and has been greatly affected in Germany, Scandinavia, Israel, the Netherlands, France, Australia and North America.

Science psychology is a field of scientific research including science philosophy, science history, scientific sociology, or sociology of scientific knowledge. Scientific psychology is most easily defined as scientific research of scientific thinking and behavior. This field first gained popularity in the 1960's and Abraham Maslow announced powerful articles on this subject in 1966, but its popularity diminished and reappeared in the 1980's. Some of the key figures in the current scientific psychology are William Brewer, Kevin Dumber, Gregory Fist, Michael Gorman, David Kuller, Barbara Kosloski, Diana Kuhn, Sophia Liberman, Dean Keith Simon , Will Shady, Frank Sulway, Paul Sagard, Ryan Tweeney West Rum and Wendy Parker

Prior to the advent of sociology, there was no systematic and scientific attempt to study the complexity of human society. Sociology makes it possible to study society in a scientific way. In order to advance in various fields, scientific knowledge about human society is necessary. Through sociology, scientific research on the relationship between the great social system and individuals and systems is formed. Family, family, school and education, church and religion, state and government, industry and work, community and association, these are institutions of social administration. Sociology studies these institutions and their roles in personal development and proposes appropriate measures to enhance these institutions so that they can better serve individuals

Before Kuhn's book was published, many ideas on the process of scientific research and discovery have been proposed. Ludwik Fleck developed the first system of scientific knowledge sociology in his book "The Origin and Development of Scientific Facts" (1935). He insisted that exchange of opinions led to establishing a series of ideas. And it helped to divide the field into esoteric (professional) and open (external) circles after full development. Kuhn wrote Fleck's preface in the 1979 edition, pointed out that he read this book in 1950 and was convinced that someone saw what he found there in the history of science .