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All social sciences of our day seem to adopt the politically correct position of relevance of being of “practical use” for “the society”. It is claimed here that such appropriation of the applied value of a science is an accommodation to the social-institutional control demands on the sciences. While emphasizing “practical use” such demands keep the social sciences away from universal knowledge that might reveal the multiple social functions of the controlling institutions. The Semiotic Demand Settings (SDS) that are set up to regulate what social sciences do (and do not do) guarantee that the development of the given science is non-linear in its history, and uneven in its social-geographical distribution. History of social psychology – especially its move between Europe and America – provides evidence of such processes that have resulted in fragmentation of knowledge and reliance on consensually accepted methods. Overcoming these historically set self-blinders by a discipline is needed if it generates general knowledge applicable to all societies.