Sociální konstruktivismus ve zkoumání vědy a jejích dějin

Abstract

The article deals with investigation of science and its history in relation to social constructivism. Firstly, we are focused on social constructivism that has been drawn on laboratory studies. Further, the article introduces some aspects of constructivist historiography of science. There is pointed out that two different images of history of science are available for us – positivism (including a popular literature) and constructivism, and both of them offer its own explanation of history of science.