Biography of World Social Scientist

Biography of World Social Scientists. In contrast to the natural sciences sociology’s own history is not a side issues but a serious problem studied by the same methodological means including quantitative procedures as other social problems. A necessary element of any sciences self awareness is its history. By tracing the historical development of their disciplines scholars and scientists understand their contemporary state and their contradictions and problems better. Not surprisingly interest in the history of a science grows as the latter develops. And that fully applies to sociology. Of late the proportion of historical sociological studies in the sociological literature has risen considerably. And its themes have broadened. Alongside the history of sociological theory three has arisen the history of empirical sociological theory there has arisen the history f empirical sociology and much attention has begun to be paid to the history of the institutionalisation of sociology and to study of its social functions and of its relations with other sciences.