A Contemporary Scientist: Novel Contexts of Self-Identification
The purpose of the article is studying of the problem of self-identity of a contemporary scientist in the cognitive field of the social philosophical conception in the XX century. The main contexts of the modern changes in the social and scientific world characterized by complicated social differentiation, separation of the principles of scientific identification and hierarchy, value and ethical uncertainty are defined. Specificity of an individual self-reflection of the scientist in correlation with a ‘model' of a scientist and the basis for a switch in self-identifications are studied. Two types of individual self-determination - a scientist as a practical worker and a scientist as an intellectual person - are suggested and described. Methodological principles of a number of social concepts (M. Weber, P. Bourdieu, the theory of identity, the post-modernist social theory) became an indispensable condition for reflection of the novel contexts of self-identification of a scientist, the problem of search of his place and role in the scientific practice.