Lower Nervous Activity

In the United States, the low level of participation of researchers in empirical social research (sociological surveys, etc.), their influence on public opinion, and ultimately the assessment of scientists for their contribution to the development of sociological science may be associated with ageist processes in American society and difficulties translation of a scientist with signs of “low”, which were the majority of the first American sociologists, and with differences in the ways of mastering and using professional knowledge.

At the same time, without the prestige of scientific schools, there would not be a level of teaching that fundamentally enshrines the formation of concepts based on a special philosophical tradition that determines the research strategy and its interpretation. According to one of the leading US sociologists, J. Waller, there is not a single scientific discovery or advanced theory that would have been created without sociology going through a “crisis” due to the lack of supporting organizations. The “calculation” of the conditions for the existence of science took place through evolutionary processes: the separation of the “deep” and “superficial” layers of the discipline, the functioning of the “academic elite” and generally accepted criteria for scientific character. Thus, to "resurrect" from