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Durkheim's Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Knowledge : Creating an Intellectual Niche (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) Book by Warren Schmaus

Women and dualism: A sociology of knowledge analysis Book by Lynda M Glennon

The Sociology of Knowledge: Its Structure and Its Relation to the Philosophy of Knowledge: A Critical Analysis of the Systems of Karl Mannheim and Pitirim A. Sorokin Book by Jacques Jerome Pierre Maquet

Society and Ideology: An Inquiry into the Sociology of Knowledge (Perennial works in sociology) Book by Gerard Degre, Lewis A. Coser (Editor), Walter W. Powell (Editor)

Knowledge and Reflexivity : New Frontiers in the Sociology of Knowledge
Book by Steve Woolgar (Editor)

Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge: Karl Mannheim: Collected English Writings Volume 5 (Routledge Classics in Sociology) Book by Bryan Turner

Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge: A Comparative Study in the Theory of Ideology Book by Leon Bailey

Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge Karl Mannheim

Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge
Book by Gerard Radnitzky, W. W. Bartley (Editor)

Conservatism: A contribution to the Sociology of Knowledge: Karl Mannheim: Collected English Writings Volume 11 (Routledge Classics in Sociology) Book by Karl Mannheim, Mannheim

Knowledge in a Social World Book by Alvin I. Goldman

Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today Book by Steven Seidman

The Fate of Knowledge Book by Helen E. Longino

Challenging Knowledge: The University in the Knowledge Society
Book by Gerard Delanty

Reviews:

Knowledge As Culture: The New Sociology of Knowledge
Book by E. Doyle McCarthy
Richard Harvey Brown, University of Maryland, College Park
"Doyle McCarthy's book brings the sociology of knowledge into the 21st century.... [Her strategy of interpretation] enables her not only to update the sociology of knowledge, but also to enrich postmodern approaches to the study of knowledge, science, and culture."

Knowledge and Reflexivity : New Frontiers in the Sociology of Knowledge
Book by Steve Woolgar (Editor)
Scholars working in the area broadly described as `social studies of science' have convincingly demonstrated over the past decade that natural scientific knowledge is a product of social, cultural, historical and political processes.
Knowledge and Reflexivity examines the wide-ranging implications of reflexivity for ethnography, discourse analysis, textual analysis, medical sociology and the sociology of science.
Knowledge and Reflexivity brings debates within the social studies of science to a new frontier and will be stimulating reading for all researchers within the social sciences.

The Sociology of Knowledge (The International Library of Critical Writings in Sociology) Book by Volker Meja, Nico Stehr (Editors)
- Karel Müller, Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, January 2001
...a very suitable source of information and understanding ...sociology, and the sociology of knowledge in particular.

Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the SOCIOLOGY (740) of Knowledge Book by Karl Mannheim
Mannheim, a pioneer in the field of SOCIOLOGY (740), here analyzes the ideologies that are used to stabilize a social order and the wish-dreams that are employed when any transformation of that same order is attempted. Translated and with a Foreword by Louis Wirth and Edward Shils; Preface by Wirth; Indices.

Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge
Book by Gerard Radnitzky, W. W. Bartley (Editor)
Evolutionary epistemology applies Darwinian principles of natural selection to scientific theories and to knowledge generally.
Part III of the volume, titled "Rationality and the Sociology of Knowledge, " branches off in various directions with essays from Peter Munz, Antony Flew and Bartley (again). Munz responds to Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, which contends that philosophers should not try to compete with scientists in solving problems but, instead, should sustain elegant conversations.

Knowledge in a Social World Book by Alvin I. Goldman
"ALL men by nature desire to know..."
Knowledge in a Social World offers a philosophy for the information age. Alvin Goldman explores new frontiers by creating a thoroughgoing social epistemology, moving beyond the traditional focus on solitary knowers. Social, cultural, and technological changes present new challenges to our ways of knowing and understanding, and philosophy must face these challenges. Against the tides of postmodernism and social constructionism Goldman defends the integrity of truth and shows how to promote it by well-designed forms of social interaction.

Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today Book by Steven Seidman
Contested Knowledge has established itself as a leading text that brings social theory into the present day by providing the most up-to-date perspectives on social theory by one of the most important thinkers of our time, Steven Seidman. The book tracks the work of the major figures in the field, from the classical sociologists – Durkheim, Marx, Weber – to contemporary theorists, including Giddens, Foucault, Bourdieu, and Judith Butler. Through exploring contemporary social theories and movements (including feminism, poststructuralism, African-American thought, and queer theory), the author presents a compelling new approach to the tradition of sociological theory and its established canon.
Contested Knowledge combines social analysis and moral advocacy, showing how social theory can and does – and sometimes doesn’t – work within the public and political sphere.

The Fate of Knowledge Book by Helen E. Longino
This is the first compelling diagnosis of what has gone awry in the raging 'science wars.' Rising above both sides to see what each can contribute, it presents a powerful constructive account of how to overcome the dichotomy between those who see science as rational and those who see it as the product of social forces. It offers a novel account of knowledge that accommodates the concerns of both philosophers and sociologists.

Challenging Knowledge: The University in the Knowledge Society
Book by Gerard Delanty
Drawing from current debates in social theory about the changing nature of knowledge, this book offers the most comprehensive sociological theory of the university that has yet appeared. The famous philosophical conceptions of the university from the Enlightenment to postmodern thought are discussed along with the major writings in modern social theory on the university, such as those of Weber, Parsons, Habermas, Gadamer, Lyotard and Bourdieu. In this far reaching contribution to the sociology of knowledge, Delanty views the university as a key institution of modernity and as the site where knowledge, culture and society interconnect.

A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot Book by Peter Burke
In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie. The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions (especially universities and academies) which encouraged or discouraged intellectual innovation. Then, in a series of separate chapters, Burke explores the geography, anthropology, politics and economics of knowledge, focusing on the role of cities, academies, states and markets in the process of gathering, classifying, spreading and sometimes concealing information. The final chapters deal with knowledge from the point of view of the individual reader, listener, viewer or consumer, including the problem of the reliability of knowledge discussed so vigorously in the seventeenth century. One of the most original features of this book is its discussion of knowledges in the plural. It centres on printed knowledge, especially academic knowledge, but it treats the history of the knowledge 'explosion' which followed the invention of printing and the discovery of the world beyond Europe as a process of exchange or negotiation between different knowledges, such as male and female, theoretical and practical, high-status and low-status, and European and non-European.

Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge Book by David Turnbull
John Law of History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz
In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together a wide range of traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge, including science, are messy, spatial and local. Every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space through the linking of people, practices and places. The spaces we inhabit and assemblages we work with are not as homogeneous and coherent as our modernist perspectives have led us to believe-rather they are complex and heterogeneous motleys.

Durkheim's Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Knowledge : Creating an Intellectual Niche (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) Book by Warren Schmaus
In this demonstration of the link between philosophy of science and scientific practice, Warren Schmaus argues that Durkheim's philosophy is crucial to his sociology. Through a reinterpretation of the relation between Durkheim's major philosophical and sociological works, Schmaus argues that Durkheim's sociology is more than a collection of general observations about society.
Schmaus shows how Durkheim sought to make sociology more rigorous by introducing scientific methods of analysis and explanation into the study of society. Durkheim tried to reveal how implicit, commonly held beliefs actually govern people's lives. Through an original interpretation of Durkheim's landmark writings, Schmaus argues that Durkheim, in his empirical studies, refined both the methods of sociology and a theory about society's shared knowledge and practices.

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