Коррозия социальных наук: факторы, причины, последствия

Abstract

The subject of article are the different negative factors in contemporary social sciences, their classification, symptoms, and negative consequences. Two groups of factors are considered – social and moral-psychological and methodological ones. Among the former ones: absence of interest in the circle of business and authorities in support of fundamental science; material and moral dependence of researchers and conformity consequently; phenomenon of scholar’s lackey servility and its disastrous consequences for science; self- deception of supposed value neutrality of researcher. Among the latter ones: judgement of value of scientific work only by formal bureaucratic indicators neglecting its quality and meaning for science; excessive demands to standardization of texts; condition of obligatory empirical proof for any research suggestion, what rejects general conceptual considerations and judgements as supposedly “non-scientifical” and narrows a room for research inquires; excessive expectations connected with prospects of “artificial intellect” and digitalization; trend to formal imitation of science attributes what impoverish intellectually an essence of science and cuts off the logical analysis and “the abstract” thoughts, in spite of the latter ones give most important increase of knowledge and allow higher level of social processes understanding. The author hopes that attraction attention of scholars to these, systematized him, deformations in social science will be capable to perform a positive role.