Epistemological status of modern social knowledge: from the ideal of scientific objectivity to the self-referencing of culture
The article analyzes the refusal from the ideal of scientific objectivity which has significant effect on the change of the epistemological status of modern social knowledge in favor of the self-referencing foundations of culture which overstepped the bounds of scientific knowing. It is shown that in modern conditions the more widely spread attitude that demonstrates the epistemological self-sufficiency of the value-normative approach. It is concluded that the main externalist factor which changes the epistemological status of modern social knowledge is the changed nature of knowledge which finds the foundations for the legitimating in the narratives of culture. However, in the conditions of post-modern society's the cultural foundations of such an axiologically loaded type of scientific knowledge as the sciences about society and man are losing the ability to value-semantic invariance and therefore allow simulating of valuable ideals.