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Society and Knowledge Contemporary Perspectives in the Sociology of Knowledge and Science
460 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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The sociology of knowledge is generally seen as part of the sociology of cultural products. Along with the sociology of science, it explores the social character of science and in particular the social production of scientific knowledge. Knowledge in all its varieties is of crucial importance in social, political, and economic relations in modern society. Yet new realities, the editors argue in... Read more
I: Fundamental Issues; 1: The Sociology of Knowledge; 2: Durkheim and Mauss Revisited: Classification and the Sociology of Knowledge; 3: Knowledge and Utility: Implications for the Sociology of Knowledge; II: Theoretical Perspectives; 4: Toward a Sociology of Cognition; 5: The Conventional Component in Knowledge and Cognition; 6: The Fabrication of Facts: Toward a Microsociology of Scientific Knowledge; III: Knowledge and Power; 7: Knowledge and Power: An Interview by Peter Ludes; 8: Knowledge as Product and Property 1; 9: Mixing Metaphors: Politics or Economics of Knowledge?; 10: Knowledge Societies; IV: Empirical Studies; 11: Polarity and Knowledge; 12: Kausalität, Anschaulichkeit , and Individualität , or How Cultural Values Prescribed the Character and the Lessons Ascribed to Quantum Mechanics *; 13: Midwifery as Science: An Essay on the Relation between Scientific and Everyday Knowledge; 14: The Discursive Production of Uncertainty: The OJ Simpson “Dream Team” and the Sociology of Knowledge Machine *
Biography
Volker Meja
