1st Edition
An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance Essays on the Limits of Knowing
1. Strategic unknowns: towards a sociology of ignorance Linsey McGoey
2. Inert facts and the illusion of knowledge: strategic uses of ignorance in HIV clinics Carol A. Heimer
3. States of ignorance: the unmaking and remaking of death tolls Brian Rappert
4. Rationalities of ignorance: on financial crisis and the ambivalence of neo-liberal epistemology William Davies and Linsey McGoey
5. Bureaucratic ambiguity Jacqueline Best
6. Uncomfortable knowledge: the social construction of ignorance in science and environmental policy discourses Steve Rayner
Biography
Linsey McGoey is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, UK, and a Co-Director of the Centre for Economic Sociology and Innovation (CRESI). Her publications appear in the British Journal of Sociology, BioSocieties, Third-World Quarterly, History of the Human Sciences and Science of Culture. From November 2013, she joins the Editorial Advisory Board of Economy and Society.
"An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance will serve as a partial but nonetheless interesting overview of Ignorance Studies and more generally in the fields of Social Epistemology and Social Theory. All chapters are rigorous and well documented."— Yves Laberge, Electronic Green Journal
