A Study of the Dispelling of Scientism by Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) dispels science and scientism by three approaches, i.e. relativism and constructivism in epistemology and methodology, research in the laboratory and textual analysis, and social interpretation of debates in science. SSK scholars reexamine science and scientism in social contexts and assert that many components of science are in fact social elements, such as beliefs, research traditions, laboratories, scientific debates, etc. Thus SSK dispels the objective foundation of science and regards science as a product of social construction. This relativistic interpretation of science has now become a unique perspective for the understanding of science and scientism.