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The Reality of Knowledge: Towards a Critical Realist Sociology of Knowledge book cover

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The Reality of Knowledge Towards a Critical Realist Sociology of Knowledge

By Philip D. Walsh Copyright 2026
192 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book proposes a new approach to the sociology of knowledge, providing a cross-section of some of the major theories that have influenced and continue to influence the field. Through a series of engagements with the history of the discipline, it brings a critical realist perspective to bear on key themes within the sociology of knowledge. Moving away from the notion of critical realism as... Read more

Introduction  1. Knowledge and the Sociology of Knowledge  2. A Critical Realist Approach to Knowledge  3. Social Cognition and the Origin of Concepts in Emile Durkheim’s Sociology of Knowledge  4. Max Weber and the Sociology of Knowledge: Institutions, Values and Knowledgeability  5. Phenomenology and Everyday Knowledge  6. The Social Ontology of Everyday Knowledge  7. Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Knowledge  8. Processes and Persons in Norbert Elias’s Sociology of Knowledge  Conclusion

 

Biography

Philip D. Walsh is Associate Professor of Sociology and of Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto. He is the author of Arendt Contra Sociology: Theory, Society and Its Science and Skepticism, Modernity and Critical Theory.

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