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	Sociology of knowledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The sociology of knowledge is the study of the social origins of ideas, and of the effects prevailing ideas have on societies.
		A particularly important strain of the sociology of knowledge is the criticism by Michel Foucault.
		An interesting artifact in the sociology of knowledge is the Erdős number (the length of the smallest path in the network of all mathematicians to Paul Erdős).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sociology_of_knowledge (1048 words)

	Sociology of scientific knowledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK), closely related to the sociology of science, considers social influences on science.
		Sociology of scientific knowledge became controversial in the 1990s after the publication of a hoax paper by Alan Sokal in the journal Social Text, under the title Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.
		The ensuing debate (the Sokal affair) led to SSK thinkers being accused of relativism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sociology_of_scientific_knowledge (642 words)

	Sociology - Poland (Knowledge Base Social Sciences in Eastern Europe)
		Sociology has been functioning and developing its institutional structure established by Znaniecki until today, albeit with one interruption during World War II and another during the Stalinist period of 1948-1956.
		The Institute of Sociology of Silesian University in Katowice studied, from the very beginning of the transformation, the psychological aspects of poverty as well as the poverty in "old industrial areas", particularly in the Silesia region, which is known for its old and inefficient mining and metallurgy industries.
		The first one is a quarterly published as a joint venture of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Committee on Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (originally published by the Committee for Social Sciences, of the Academy) and specializes in general sociology.
	www.cee-socialscience.net /archive/sociology/poland/report1.html (8191 words)

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		The task of the sociology of knowledge is not to be the debunking or uncovering of socially produced distortions, but the systematic study of the social conditions of knowledge as such.
		Put simply, the central problem is the sociology of truth, not the sociology of error.- Despite his distinctive approach, Stark is probably closer to Scheler than to Mannheim in his understanding of the relationship between ideas and their social context.
		To be sure, the sociology of knowledge, like all empirical disciplines that accumulate evidence concerning the relativity and determination of human thought, leads toward epistemological questions concerning sociology itself as well as any other scientific body of knowledge.
	www.criminology.fsu.edu /transcrime/articles/SocialConstructionOfReality10-17.htm (2392 words)

	FQS 3(4) Schnettler: Social Constructivism, Hermeneutics, and the Sociology of Knowledge
		The "Hermeneutic Sociology of Knowledge" is grounded in a tradition clearly shaped by a Central European conception of the social sciences as philosophically-founded and, at the same time, dedicated to empirical research.
		The editors emphasize that a "Hermeneutic Sociology of Knowledge" is to be understood as involving methodical skepticism regarding all forms of "positive knowledge." It aims at the "disenchantment of the social constructions of reality," and this includes criticism of the "constructs of sociologists" by sociologists themselves.
		It situates the "dramatological" role concept in the context of the sociology of knowledge and, on the basis of an anthropologically-founded understanding of roles, presents the thesis of a general constraint on the presentation of self.
	www.qualitative-research.net /fqs-texte/4-02/4-02review-schnettler-e.htm (2991 words)

	Department of Sociology
		Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior.
		Since all human behavior is social, the subject matter of sociology ranges from the intimate family to the hostile mob; from organized crime to religious cults; from the divisions of race, gender and social class to the shared beliefs of a common culture; and from the sociology of work to the sociology of sports.
		Sociology is perhaps the broadest discipline of the social sciences and therefore provides opportunities for students to pursue diverse interests.
	www.dickinson.edu /departments/socio (363 words)

	Bloor: The Strong Programme in the Sociology of Knowledge
		The sociology of knowledge focuses on the distribution of belief and the various factors which influence it.
		Thus the sociology of knowledge is confined to the sociology of error.
		The sociology of knowledge is thus itself unworthy of belief or it must make exceptions for scientific or objective investigations and hence confine itself to the sociology of error.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /People/mdr2/classes/76_101_D_Fall_04/readings/Bloor.htm (8868 words)

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		In my view, sociology is a knowledge process organized by a small set of professionals--some 12,000 in the States and fewer than 50,000 in the world.
		In the socialist bloc, the knowledge process is also distorted to serve the interests of an elite; a bureaucratically organized socialist state headed by a communist party arrogating unto itself a monopoly over the knowledge process.
		We exculpate ourselves by mentioning other, more conflict and critical theories of knowledge but we abort the knowledge process in the same instant by a testing process in which the student is expected to reproduce the model of truth held by the professor.
	www.etext.org /Politics/Progressive.Sociologists/authors/Young.TR/transforming-american-sociology (5944 words)

	Department of Sociology
		Sociology, the scientific study of human behavior in social groups, seeks to understand how people interact, how they organize themselves in social groups, and how this organization changes.
		Courses in sociology focus on the basic forms of social organization and social processes, in our own and other cultures, and on the theoretical approaches sociologists use to understand those basic forms.
		The Sociology Department at Grinnell College seeks to develop in students the sociological knowledge and skills that will enable them to think critically and imaginatively about society and social issues.
	www.grinnell.edu /academic/sociology (357 words)

	Sociology of Knowledge Comps
		The modern sociology of knowledge and science has its roots in Marx’s proposition that it is not consciousness that determines existence; rather social existence determines consciousness.
		One might think of knowledge as having an inherent character (as in the way biological knowledge differs from literary knowledge); one might also think of knowledge as distinguished by the method used to glean it (as in experience-based knowledge versus systematic observation-based knowledge).
		The beginning of a new sociology of science can be dated to the late Thomas F. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1982) referred to by one reviewer as the most influential book ever written in the history of science.
	www.calstatela.edu /academic/soc/compknowledgespr05.htm (595 words)

	THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE
		Perhaps no where is this imagination so exercised than in the sociology of knowledge, which studies the social sources and social consequences of knowledge--how, for instance, social organization shapes both the content and structure of knowledge or how various social, cultural, political conditions shield people from truth.
		It has been argued that the concept of knowledge is to sociology as the notion of attitude is to psychology: a notion so central that, in many ways, it is the foundation for the entire discipline.
		Here the sociology of knowledge examines the relationships between mental phenomena and social organization--how, for example, the oppressed are exploited through "false consciousness," how "groupthink" dynamics stifle the creativity of decision-makers, and how ideologies and stereotypes shape what is perceived.
	www.trinity.edu /~mkearl/knowledg.html (4248 words)

	Department of Sociology \| University of Waterloo
		Merton, Robert, AParadigm for the Sociology of Knowledge@ from the Sociology of Science.
		Mannheim, Karl, AThe Sociology of Knowledge@ from Ideology and Utopia (1929).
		Merton, Robert, AParadigm for the Sociology of Knowledge@ from The Sociology of Science (1973; originally published in 1945).
	sociology.uwaterloo.ca /soc404.f04.htm (876 words)

	Durkheim - The Work - Sociology of Knowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Durkheim's sociology of knowledge is intimately tied to his sociology of religion.
		His sociology of knowledge postulates that the categories of man's thought--his ways of conceiving space and time, for example--can be traced to his mode of social life.
		Although in the light of later critical discussions of this thesis it can be said that Durkheim failed to establish the social origins of the categories of thought, it is important to recognize his pioneering contribution to the study of the correlations between specific systems of thought and systems of social organization.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Durkheim/DURKW4.HTML (469 words)

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		Foucault goes beyond this, and notes that knowledge and power are united in a social nexus: that power validates certain kinds of knowledge (and not others) by promoting certain narratives and silencing others; and that knowledge is a source of power because knowledge confers social position and techniques of social control.
		In the modern world, knowledge exists in a nexus with power, discipline, and authority, and the importance of that nexus cannot be ignored.
		Knowledge validates certain types of power, and makes manifest others, especially realms of discourse known as the 'human sciences'.
	www.eff.org /Net_culture/Consciousness/knowing_knowing.article (1478 words)

	Sociology 3523 - Sociology of Knowledge
		Rather than being a specialized area of sociology, the sociology of knowledge deals with the broad, underlying questions about the extent and limits of social influences on people's lives and the social-cultural foundations of our knowledge of the world.
		Basically, we can divide the approaches to this field between "the social determination of knowledge" (the ways in which social organization influences people's beliefs and ideas) and "the social construction of reality" (that social reality is produced and communicated, and that knowledge itself shapes social organization).
		Exercising power through knowledge is, to a significant extent, accomplished through a distinctive ‘official discourse' which is impersonal, abstract, and far removed from the language of the everyday experience of people.
	www.stthomasu.ca /academic/soci/weeks/3523.htm (833 words)

	Sociological Concentrations
		Since all sociology is ultimately concerned with change, process and development of human populations, one could say that, in a sense, all sociology is historic.
		Political sociology is the study of politics, especially as it involves the institutions, organization and social impacts of polity.
		The sociology of knowledge is the study of the way in which the production of knowledge is shaped by the social context of thinkers.
	colfa.utsa.edu /Sociology/masters/topics.html (3068 words)

	Sociology Department Index Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"We welcome you to the Sociology Department at the University of St. Thomas, which is located on the fourth floor of the O'Shaughnessy Educational Center.
		The Department Office is located in 431 OEC and you will find all of the faculty offices on the floor as well.
		ociology is the scientific study of society and social relationships and a major in sociology enables students to observe and analyze social life.
	www.stthomas.edu /sociology (187 words)

	Sociology of knowledge: Central European threads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The sociology of knowledge (a term which first achieved currency in the 1920s) endeavors to identify systematic relationships, crudely speaking, between thought and society.
		As the course progresses, the bias in the choice of subject matter will be toward the species of knowledge which all the early contributors agreed had proven the most reliable: knowledge in the natural sciences.
		Early critics feared that the sociology of knowledge could somehow undermine the pillar of science in an era of political instability, utopian radicalism, and rampant fascination with all things mystical, acausal, and irrational.
	www.ceu.hu /soc_ant/sociologyofknowledge.htm (930 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 44, No.3 - October 1987 - BOOK REVIEW - Hermeneutics and the Sociology of Knowledge
		Of Foucault's Archeology of Knowledge, she writes "it is widely acknowledged to be his worst book and presents a position that he later repudiates." Like the testimonials and citations on the jacket of her book, these other sources of credit or discredit seem like forms of discourse imported to add credibility to this text.
		It should be added that many sociologists of knowledge are quite aware of the relativity of their viewpoint and of their own rootedness in a concrete or particular social situation.
		Hekman could have engaged sociologists of knowledge more directly, for instance, if she had taken up the proposal of Friedrichs (in a Sociology of Sociology) for a "reflexive" orientation.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /oct1987/v44-3-bookreview14.htm (744 words)

	Sociology Of Knowledge
		Sociology by definition studies the social sources and social consequences of knowledge.
		The sociology of knowledge tells us to break these boundaries that we have made for ourselves.
		Social organization is one of the tools that is used in the sociology of knowledge.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper.php?request=80309 (254 words)

	Curriculum 2003-04/Theories of Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		K. Mannheim, “Competition as a cultural phenomenon,” translated in V. Meja and N. Stehr, eds., Knowledge and Politics: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute (1990 [1928]), 53–85.
		H. Speier, “Sociology or ideology?” (1930), in Meja and Stehr, 209–222.
		E. Grünwald, “The sociology of knowledge and epistemology” (1934), in Meja and Stehr, 261–266.
	www.ceu.hu /soc_ant/sociologyofknowledgeprint.htm (921 words)

	HPS Research Methods Guide: Sociology of Scientfic Knowledge
		Sociology of philosophical knowledge: Bloor (1991); Kusch (1995, 'Psychologism'); Kusch (ed.
		Bloor, D. (1982), 'Durkheim and Mauss Revisited: Classification and the Sociology of Knowledge', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 13: 267-97.
		Collins, H. (1996), 'In Praise of Futile Gestures--How Scientific is the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge', Social Studies of Science 26: 229-44.
	www.hps.cam.ac.uk /research/ssk.html (4740 words)

	Sociology of Knowledge
		Boulding (1966) The Economics of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Economics
		Pels (1996) Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Toward a New Agenda
		Schneider Ideology, Culture, and the Sociology of Knowledge
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~mryder/itc_data/soc_knowledge.html (376 words)

	Dick Smith Library - Sociology Links
		Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace - This general sociology resource from Trinity University collects links on: general sociological resources, sociological theory, data resources, methods and statistics, guide to writing a research paper and subject-based inquiries, such as the sociology of knowledge.
		Sociology Timeline - Covers important people, theories, and events in sociology from 1620 to 1995.
		Society for Applied Sociology (SAS) - SAS is an international organization for professional social scientists applying sociological knowledge in a many different of settings.
	www.tarleton.edu /~library/sociology_il.html (1115 words)

	Sorokin - The Work - Sociology of Knowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sorokin's sociology of knowledge rejects any attempt to root ideas in the existential conditions of thinkers and their audiences.
		Instead, his sociology of knowl- edge attempts to establish connections between concrete philosophical, religious, artistic, and scientific thought and the overall cultural mentalities in which this thought appears and flourishes.
		But even if his overall idealistic and emanationist explanation seems open to serious objections, this is not to say that his sociology of knowledge has been sterile.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Sorokin/SOROKW3.HTML (815 words)

	Sociology
		Seminar participants will receive an introduction to perspectives and approaches from the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of scientific knowledge.
		Seminar participants will use a sociology of knowledge perspective to better understand an event or issue of interest to them.
		Practical application of the theories of knowledge discussed and firsthand experience with how individuals and communities are grappling with these issues will also be central to this seminar.
	www.oseda.missouri.edu /dhcourses/c425_02/c42502syl.html (1676 words)

	Amazon.com: The Social Construction of Reality : A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge: Books: Peter L. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the SOCIOLOGY (740) of Knowledge by Karl Mannheim
		The sociology of knowledge a la Berger and Luckmann is not about the history of ideas, the economic origin of ideologies, the social process of education, the study of intellectuals, religious Gnostics, or secret societies, or social theories per se.
		And (5) the sociology of knowledge must concern itself with everything that passes for knowledge in society.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385058985?v=glance (2423 words)

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