SOCIAL ESSENCE AND SPECIFICS OF SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
The article reveals social essence and structure of science, likewise specificity of scientific production as of universal social labor; an extensive system of scientific production is revealed. The meaning of the concepts of "abstract human labor" and "universal social labor", their similarities and differences are identified. Scientific work is presented as the highest form of cognitive activity in which the universal nature of public knowledge manifests itself most clearly. The reform process of science has its own specificity, which means that the "effective managers" should not be reformers here.