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The quintessence of Salomea Kowalewska's sociology of science is presented in this paper. She formulated it in articles published in the 'Science Studies Problems' in the period of 1980-2000. The forever topical questions of the sociology express her postulate to do research on: population of scientists as a community sharing the same values and norms, organisational initiatives related to transformation the community into learned organisation, and methods of building co-operation with foreign partners