ABSTRACT
Presumably the scholars of all scientific disciplines operate with some basic concepts that are essential as regards the constitution, intellectual history and continual reproduction of the intellectual basis of the discipline in question. It is common for the content and definitions of the concepts to vary in time in the course of the development of general philosophical and methodological trends in scientific thought and in relation to the social context in which the research work occurs. These concepts are of particular importance for the identity of the subject within the broad field of academic disciplines. As to the relationship between human sciences and society, these concepts have a twofold role. Firstly, from the perspective of the discipline concerned, they are continually reproducing and directing approaches aimed at analysing theoretically and/or empirically given spheres of the society and social practice. Secondly, as regards the society, this work and its applications are usually significant not only in providing the identity for a subject among other disciplines, but also in building up the world view of the citizens (intellectual reproduction) and — from the viewpoint of different interests in knowledge and their social constitution - in planning, policy-making and other social practices (and forms of social control) necessary for social reproduction.
