Although Czech sociology drew its inspiration from literature in the past, and, reversaly, literary science respected the development of mpdern sociolgy, no systematic work from the area of "sociology of literature" has ever been published, though there was one written. In 1940s Karel Krejčí wrote a short text under the title Sociology of literature and published it as an inhouse text in 1944. Krejčí holds a position, which is still up-to date, no matter how it might have been conditioned by his time: sociology of literature is an independent discipline, with a claim to have a place within the system of other sociological fields, that means, he holds a view now very often disputed alamode. The other evident merit of Krejčí´s book is the fact that it anticipated some themes, which were captured by sociological interest much later - especially the theme of so-called "popular literature", "colonial literature", and "literature for women".
Studie je věnována roz- manitým sociologizujícím, a později přímo i sociologickým způsobům, kterými v minulosti byla a dodnes je věda uchopována. Do sociologie se věda jako výzkumný předmět dostává spolu s osvícenskou ideou pokroku, na kterou v první polovině 19. století navazuje Auguste Comte. Teprve sociologie 20. století se však zbavila „historicismu", kterým byla sociologie nejen Comtova, ale samozřejmě i Marxova určována. Od 30. let minulého století (Merton) se pak věda stává zvláštním sociologickým tématem, které bude s postupujícím časem nabývat na síle (až po nedávný bloorovský a latourovský obrat). V samostatné části se pak prof. Petrusek věnuje fenoménem zpochybňování vědy, který spojuje s proměnami samotných našich společností. Svoji studii uzavírá zamyšlením se nad sociologickou metateorií., This study focuses on various forms of sociological accounts and understandings of science. It demonstrates that as an explanatory topic science enters the field of sociology together with the Enlightenment's idea of progress, which is then followed up by Auguste Comte in the early 19th century. However, it had taken many decades before sociologists were able to free themselves of " historicist" ways of thinking, which can easily be traced in Comte's and Marx's writings. Since the 1930s, science has become a distinct research topic within sociology (with Robert K. Merton as a leading figure) that is nowadays more and more in the centre of systematic disciplinary interest (with David Bloor or Bruno Latour as leading figures). In the final parts, the author inquires into the arguments against science and associates these arguments with the transformations of societies. Also the role of sociological metatheory is aligned with the prospects of socio- logical accounts of science., and Miloslav Petrusek.