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The article is devoted to analysis of the conditions and problems of formation of sociological epistemology – the doctrine about the process of cognition in sociology. The authors substantiate the existence of the need of sociological science in studying its own process of cognition, dependence of the methods of settling the cognitive epistemological problems on the reveal of fundamental peculiarities of gnoseological nature of sociology. Gnoseological content and methodological role in sociology of the principle of reflection, the principle of understanding and principle of constructing, which determine to a considerable extent the formation of sociological epistemology are analyzed.