Malysh L. Scientific activity: social determination and perspectives.

In thesis investigation, a scientific task is solved concerning the explanation of mechanisms of social determination of scientific activity that defined its content at various stages of social development. The work highlights the main levels of scientific activity (where its subjects are social institute of science, specialized organization, scientists), on which incorporation of social needs is gradually performed, thus adaptation to the main requirements of time periods of social development is conducted. The main attention is paid to involvement of scientific activity to process of creation of social relations through its ability to produce specific discourses that legitimate transform of social group structure and re-distribution of power authorities between individual social groups, due to the change of contextual filling of criterium of verity of scientific knowledge.