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In his later works, Thomas Kuhn sharply attacks the so-called strong programme in the sociology of knowledge and disavows it thoroughly. This is curious due to the fact that the representatives of the strong programme, by contrast, openly endorse Kuhn and substantially draw on his work. They perceive in it a set of key ideas, which imply the possibility of a sociological analysis of scientific knowledge. The aim of the paper is to reassess Kuhn's criticism of the strong programme and to evaluate its righteousness. For this purpose, the paper first of all reconstructs Kuhn's account of the strong programme, which is compared afterwards with the works of its founders David Bloor and Barry Barnes, where it is theoretically developed. In the following section, Kuhn's arguments against the strong programme are confronted with a historical paper, where it is applied in practice. The third section compares Kuhn's own approach to science with the strong programme in those very aspects, which Kuhn criticises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper maps the history of the term and ideas about heterosexuality in the United States of America since the second half of the 19th century until the 20th century. Katz focuses primarily on the construction of the concept and terminological apparatus of heterosexuality (and homosexuality) in the medical discourse, its entry into the social mind and historical changes in the subsequent periods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents Lightner Witmer as a founding personality of psychology applied in practice. It follows his professional career and put it into the historical context of development of both the society and psychology in the U.S.A. On the basis of authentic materials, the author describes the Witmer's clientele and his description of the clinical method. His founding article from the year 1907 is mentioned more extensively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presented work deals with experience and sensation seeking tendency as an important phenomenon of quality of life of present days society. The paper contains a brief introduction into this field. It describes a questionnaire method, which enables measuring of the sensation seeking tendency. This scale is known in the country of its origin, the United States of America, and in the world as the Sensation Seeking Scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]