Science And The Sociology Of Knowledge Rle Social Theory

Author : Michael Mulkay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317651185

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Science and the Sociology of Knowledge (RLE Social Theory) by Michael Mulkay Pdf

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 : Michael Mulkay,Michael Joseph Mulkay
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UCSC:32106019498820

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Science and the Sociology of Knowledge by Michael Mulkay,Michael Joseph Mulkay Pdf

The major contributors to the sociology of knowledge have agreed that the conclusions of science depend on social action only in a very limited sense. This view is examined critically and it is argued that scientific knowledge should be included fully within the scope of sociological analysis. The production of scientific knowledge is depicted as a process of negotiation, the outcome of which depends on participants' use of resources which are both technical and social. It is shown how cultural resources are taking over from the broader cultural milieu and incorporated into the body of certified knowledge; and how, in the wider political context, scientists' claims are conditioned and affected by their social allegiances.

Author : Alan Irwin,Mike Michael
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335225897

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EBOOK: Science, Social Theory & Public Knowledge by Alan Irwin,Mike Michael Pdf

How might social theory, public understanding of science and science policy best inform one another? What have been the key features of science-society relations in the modern world? How are we to re-think science-society relations in the context of globalization, hybridity and changing patterns of governance? This topical and unique book draws together the three key perspectives on science-society relations: public understanding of science, scientific and public governance, and social theory. The book presents a series of case studies (including the debates on genetically modified foods and the AIDS movement in the USA) to discuss critically the ways in which social theorists, social scientists, and science policy makers deal with science-society relations. ‘Science' and 'society' combine in many complex ways. Concepts such as citizenship, expertise, governance, democracy and the public need to be re-thought in the context of contemporary concerns with globalization and hybridity. A radical new approach is developed and the notion of ethno-epistemic assemblage is used to articulate a new series of questions for the theorization, empirical study and politics of science-society relations.

Author : Gunter Werner Remmling
Publisher : Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Knowledge, Sociology of
ISBN : 1138985856

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Towards the Sociology of Knowledge by Gunter Werner Remmling Pdf

The sociology of knowledge is an area of social scientific investigation with major emphasis on the relations between social life and intellectual activity. It is now an area central to most graduate and undergraduate courses in sociology. The present collection of readings explains the origins, systematic development, present state and possible future direction of the discipline. The major statements in the field were developed early in the twentieth century by Durkheim, Scheler and Mannheim, but the sociology of knowledge continues to engage the theoretical and empirical interests of contemporary sociologists who desire to penetrate the surface level of social existence. This book, with its carefully selected contributions and an introduction which relates the selections to the developmental pattern of the discipline, provides guidance and insight for the reader concerned with the topical issues raised by sociologists of knowledge.

Author : Barry Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135029029

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Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory by Barry Barnes Pdf

Originally published in 1974.

Author : James Robert Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317651291

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The Rational and the Social (RLE Social Theory) by James Robert Brown Pdf

To paraphrase Marx, sociologists have only interpreted science; the point is to improve it. The Rational and the Social attempts both. It begins by sketching recent sociological approaches to science, notably the strong programme – Bloor’s ‘science of science’ and Barnes’s ‘finitism’ – and that of the ‘anthropologists in the lab’, Collins and Latour and Woolgar. The author argues that although sociological accounts are valuable in many respects, when morals are drawn about the structure and epistemology of science, they are badly flawed. In rejecting the sociological theory of science, it is not necessary to conclude that science develops without reference to the social. James Robert Brown argues for an alternative account. He proposes a novel way of viewing the history of science as a source of evidence for how to do good science and argues that the most important aspect of methodology is that it is comparative. Rival theories are evaluated by comparison and the contribution of the social to this process is inevitable and should be acknowledged. This is the challenge to science.

Author : Peter Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317634980

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Knowledge and Social Structure (RLE Social Theory) by Peter Hamilton Pdf

The primary concern of this study is to present, elucidate and analyse the developments which have characterized the sociology of knowledge, and which have set for it the outlines of its major problematics. Peter Hamilton examines the most distinctive approaches to the determinate relationship between knowledge and social structure. He considers the three main ‘pre-paradigms’ of the sociology of knowledge based on the work of Marx, Durkheim and Weber, and looks at the contribution of Scheler, Mannheim and phenomenological studies to this complex field. He explores the intellectual context, particularly that of Enlightenment philosophy, in which the problems involved in producing a sociology of knowledge first came to light. In conclusion, the author suggests an inclusive perspective for approaching the difficulties posed in any attempt to describe and explain relations between knowledge and social structure.

Author : Michael Mulkay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:68164679

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Science and the sociology of knowledge by Michael Mulkay Pdf

Author : Michael Joseph Mulkay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822007998750

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Sociology of Science by Michael Joseph Mulkay Pdf

Author : Gunter Werner Remmling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000155792

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Towards the Sociology of Knowledge (RLE Social Theory) by Gunter Werner Remmling Pdf

The sociology of knowledge is an area of social scientific investigation with major emphasis on the relations between social life and intellectual activity. It is now an area central to most graduate and undergraduate courses in sociology. The present collection of readings explains the origins, systematic development, present state and possible future direction of the discipline. The major statements in the field were developed early in the twentieth century by Durkheim, Scheler and Mannheim, but the sociology of knowledge continues to engage the theoretical and empirical interests of contemporary sociologists who desire to penetrate the surface level of social existence. This book, with its carefully selected contributions and an introduction which relates the selections to the developmental pattern of the discipline, provides guidance and insight for the reader concerned with the topical issues raised by sociologists of knowledge.

Author : Barry Barnes,David Bloor,John Henry
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0485114046

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Scientific Knowledge by Barry Barnes,David Bloor,John Henry Pdf

A systematic account of the importance of sociology for the understanding of scientific knowledge. Applying sociological analysis to specific historical case studies, the work attempts to show how the sociological approach is an essential complement to interpretations of scientific knowledge from other disciplines, and a necessary contribution to obtaining a scientific understanding of science. This book should be of interest to students in the social sciences and the history and philosophy of science, and to academics interested in knowledge, epistemology, the history of ideas and the "new" sociology of science.>

Author : Nico Stehr,Volker Meja
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1138786152

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Knowledge and Politics (RLE Social Theory) by Nico Stehr,Volker Meja Pdf

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 : Barry Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317651680

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Interests and the Growth of Knowledge (RLE Social Theory) by Barry Barnes Pdf

Intriguingly different in approach from conventional works in the same area of inquiry, this study deals with the central problems and concerns of the sociology of knowledge as it has traditionally been conceived of. In other words, it is concerned with the relationship of knowledge, social interests and social structure, and with the various attempts which have been made to analyse the relationship. Barry Barnes takes the classic writings in the sociology of knowledge – by Marx, Lukács, Weber, Mannheim, Goldmann, Habermas and others – and uses them as resources in coming to grips with what he regards as the currently most interesting and significant questions in this area. This approach reflects one of the principal themes of the book itself. Knowledge, it is argued, is best treated as a resource available to those possessing it. This is the best perspective from which to understand its relationship to action and its historical significance; it is a perspective which avoids the problems of holding that knowledge is derivative, as well as those generated by the view that knowledge is a strong determinant of consciousness. the result is an unusual textbook, particularly valuable when read in conjunction with the original works it discusses.

Author : Andrea Cerroni
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786439260

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Understanding the Knowledge Society by Andrea Cerroni Pdf

Complex knowledge and ideas are generated, shared and accessed globally. Andrea Cerroni turns to this knowledge society to offer a comprehensive social theory of its processes to bridge the gap between knowledge and democracy. Drawing on a long-term historical perspective, Cerroni assembles a cultural matrix, comprising ancient myths on nature, society and knowledge and modern myths of reductionism, individualism and relativism to improve our contemporary sociological imagination.

Author : Volker Meja,Nico Stehr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317651628

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Knowledge and Politics (RLE Social Theory) by Volker Meja,Nico Stehr Pdf

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.