The Sociology Of Knowledge

Author : Werner Stark
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412839037
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Knowledge written by Werner Stark and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1958 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume serves as both an introduction to the field of the sociology of knowledge and an interpretation of the thought of the major figures associated with its development More than a compendium of ideas, Stark seeks here to put order into what he regarded as a diffuse tradition of diverse bodies of thought, in particular the seemingly irreconcilable conflict between the study of the political element in thought identified here with Karl Mannheim and the investigation of the social element in thinking associated with the work of Max Scheler. The sociology of knowledge is primarily directed toward the study of the precise ways that human experience, through the mediation of knowledge, takes on a conscious and communicable shape. While both schools dealt with by Stark assume that the pursuit of truth is not purposeful apart from socially and historically determined structures of meaning, the tradition extending from Marx to Mannheim seeks to expose hidden factors that turn us away from the truth while that of Weber and Scheler attempts to identify social forces that impart a definite direction to our search for it In order to reconcile opposing theoretical positions, Stark seeks to lay the foundations for a theory of the social determination of thought by directing his inquiry to the philosophical problem of truth in a manner compatible with cultural sociology. Stark's theoretical legacy to the sociology of knowledge is that social influences operate everywhere through a group's ethos. From this, many systems of ideas and social categories emanate, revealing partial glimpses of a synthetic whole. The outcome of Stark's work is a general theory of social determination remarkably consistent with contemporary interests in the broad range of cultural studies, whose focus is best described as the use of philosophical, literary, and historical approaches to study the social construction of meaning. "The Sociology of Knowledge "will be of great interest to social scientists, philosophers, and intellectual historians.

Author : Michael Mulkay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317651170
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and the Sociology of Knowledge (RLE Social Theory) written by Michael Mulkay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far is scientific knowledge a product of social life? In addressing this question, the major contributors to the sociology of knowledge have agreed that the conclusions of science are dependent on social action only in a very special and limited sense. In Science and the Sociology of Knowledge Michael Mulkay's first aim is to identify the philosophical assumptions which have led to this view of science as special; and to present a systematic critique of the standard philosophical account of science, showing that there are no valid epistemological grounds for excluding scientific knowledge from the scope of sociological analysis. The rest of the book is devoted to developing a preliminary interpretation of the social creation of scientific knowledge. The processes of knowledge-creation are delineated through a close examination of recent case studies of scientific developments. Dr Mulkay argues that knowledge is produced by means of negotiation, the outcome of which depends on the participants' use of social as well as technical resources. The analysis also shows how cultural resources are taken over from the broader social milieu and incorporated into the body of certified knowledge; and how, in the political context of society at large, scientists' technical as well as social claims are conditioned and affected by their social position.

Author : E. Doyle McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134921233
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge as Culture written by E. Doyle McCarthy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the Marxist, French structuralist and American pragmatist traditions, this is a lively and accessible introduction to the sociology of knowledge.

Author : Reiner Keller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351690612
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse written by Reiner Keller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) has reoriented research into social forms, structuration and processes of meaning construction and reality formation; doing so by linking social constructivist and pragmatist approaches with post-structuralist thinking in order to study discourses and create epistemological space for analysing processes of world-making in culturally diverse environments. SKAD is anchored in interpretive traditions of inquiry and allows for broadening – and possibly overcoming – of the epistemological biases and restrictions still common in theories and approaches of Western- and Northern-centric social sciences. An innovative volume, this book is exactly attentive to these empirically based, globally diverse further developments of approach, with a clear focus on the methodology and its implementation. Thus, The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse presents itself as a research program and locates the approach within the context of interpretive social sciences, followed by eleven chapters on different cases from around the world that highlight certain theoretical questions and methodological challenges. Presenting outstanding applications of the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse across a wide variety of substantive projects and regional contexts, this text will appeal to postgraduate students and researchers interested in fields such as Discourse Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies and Qualitative Methodology and Methods.

Author : Michael Joseph Mulkay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociology of Science written by Michael Joseph Mulkay and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James E. Curtis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Knowledge written by James E. Curtis and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1970 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Werner Stark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351302744
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Knowledge written by Werner Stark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume serves as both an introduction to the field of the sociology of knowledge and an interpretation of the thought of the major figures associated with its development More than a compendium of ideas, Stark seeks here to put order into what he regarded as a diffuse tradition of diverse bodies of thought, in particular the seemingly irreconcilable conflict between the study of the political element in thought identified here with Karl Mannheim and the investigation of the social element in thinking associated with the work of Max Scheler. The sociology of knowledge is primarily directed toward the study of the precise ways that human experience, through the mediation of knowledge, takes on a conscious and communicable shape. While both schools dealt with by Stark assume that the pursuit of truth is not purposeful apart from socially and historically determined structures of meaning, the tradition extending from Marx to Mannheim seeks to expose hidden factors that turn us away from the truth while that of Weber and Scheler attempts to identify social forces that impart a definite direction to our search for it In order to reconcile opposing theoretical positions, Stark seeks to lay the foundations for a theory of the social determination of thought by directing his inquiry to the philosophical problem of truth in a manner compatible with cultural sociology. Stark's theoretical legacy to the sociology of knowledge is that social influences operate everywhere through a group's ethos. From this, many systems of ideas and social categories emanate, revealing partial glimpses of a synthetic whole. The outcome of Stark's work is a general theory of social determination remarkably consistent with contemporary interests in the broad range of cultural studies, whose focus is best described as the use of philosophical, literary, and historical approaches to study the social construction of meaning. The Sociology of Knowledge will be of great interest to social scientists, philosophers, and intellectual historians.

Author : Volker Meja
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317651634
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Politics written by Volker Meja and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia has been a profoundly provocative book. The debate about politics and social knowledge that was spawned by its original publication in 1929 attracted the most promising younger scholars, some of whom shaped the thought of several generations. The book became a focus for a debate on the methodological and epistemological problems confronting German social science. More than thirty major papers were published in response to Mannheim’s text. Writers such as Hannah Arendt, Ernst Robert Curtius, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Helmuth Plessner, Hans Speier and Paul Tillich were among the contributors. Their positions varied from seeing in the sociology of knowledge a sophisticated reformulation of the materialist conception of history to linking its popularity to a betrayal of Marxism. The English publication in 1936 defined formative issues for two generations of sociological self-reflection. Knowledge and Politics provides an introduction to the dispute and reproduces the leading contributions. It sheds new light on one of the greatest controversies that have marked German social science in the past hundred years.

Author : E. Doyle McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134921241
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge as Culture written by E. Doyle McCarthy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the Marxist, French structuralist and the American pragmatist traditions, this is a lively and accessible introduction to the sociology of knowledge.

Author : M. Tavakol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociology of Knowledge written by M. Tavakol and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: