Research handbook on the sociology of knowledge / edited by Fran Collyer (Professorial Fellow, Sociology, People and Culture, University of Wollongong, Australia).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Collyer, Fran, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Research handbooks in sociology

Research handbooks in sociology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Sociology of--Research.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (538 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"This timely Handbook celebrates and contributes to the recent revitalisation of the sociology of knowledge. A diverse group of leading experts from the global North and South provide a state of the art overview of a field, which is developing rapidly with the growth of poststructuralist, postcolonial, and feminist approaches. Fran Collyer and contributing authors explore the theoretical frameworks underpinning the sociology of knowledge and demonstrate how these can address new issues, problems and circumstances. They shed light on how the sociology of knowledge is applied to and impacts contemporary challenges including racial and gender inequality, climate change, and the growth of neoliberalism. They also offer insights into the association between theories of knowledge and other conceptual and theoretical developments such as the sociology of science, constructivism, pragmatism, postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postcolonialism. This Handbook provides a comprehensive map of the area for both early and experienced scholars exploring the broad array of approaches, methods, concepts and theories which are now being applied within this rapidly changing field. The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Knowledge is an essential resource for scholars and students in sociology, and throughout the social sciences, interested in knowledge, its history, production, translation, circulation and exchange"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: The sociology of knowledge: Editor's Introduction / Fran M. Collyer

Part I: History of sociology and the sociology of knowledge

1. Junctures and movements across an intellectual terrain: The historiography of the sociology of knowledge / Fran M. Collyer

2. A diagnosis of the sociology of our time: Karl mannheim and the sociology of knowledge / Frédéric Vandenberghe

3. Religion, science, and civilisation: A history of the sociology of knowledge in China / Hon-Fai Chen

Part II: Early sociology of knowledge

4. Karl mannheim and the sociology of knowledge / Barbara Hoenig

5. Wilhelm jerusalem's 'sociology of cognition' and the early sociology of knowledge / Thomas Uebel

6. A tale of two sociologies: Empiricism versus 'metaphysics' in social research and the early sociology of knowledge / Silvia Rief and Alan Scott

7. Merton's pursuit of an 'american' version of the sociology of knowledge / Charles Crothers

Part III: Social theory and the sociology of knowledge

8. Power, knowledge and history: The contributions of max weber and norbert elias to the sociology of knowledge / Gina Zabludovsky and Héctor Vera

9. Sciences, symbols and society: Norbert elias and the sociology of knowledge / Philip D. Walsh

10. From the social to the communicative construction of knowledge / Hubert Knoblauch

11. Classical sociology of knowledge and contemporary constructivism / Stephan Fuchs

Part IV: Knowledge making, knowledge workers and knowers

12. Thinking about thinking / John Keane

13. The sociology of sociology: Thought styles and thought collectives / Fran M. Collyer

14. Pleasure of sociological writing: A new project for a hermeneutic sociology of knowledge / Anna Borisenkova

15. The potential for muckraking sociology to rebalance the sociological project: Putting 'sociological knowledge' under the microscope / Graham Scambler, Lance (Benny) Goodman and Miranda Scambler

16. Negotiating knowledge: Complementary and alternative medicine professions in the university / Caragh Brosnan

Part V: Power, inequality and knowledge production

17. Constraints on the power of scientific knowledge / Nico Stehr

18. Gender, climate change, and the production of scientific knowledge / Sam Kendrick and Joane Nagel

19. The social construction of maps: Knowledge, maps and power / Christine Leuenberger

20. Resistant knowledge / Patricia Hill Collins

21. Fallacies of mainstream economics: Unmasking ideas / David Fasenfest

Part VI: Institutions and institutional struggle

22. A divided republic of letters? Infrastructural coloniality and the commercialisation of academic publishing / David Mills

23. Social explanations of science and the sociology of knowledge: A troubled relationship / Stephen Turner

24. Negotiating academic knowledge: Alternative academic institutions / Wiebke Keim and Claire Lapique

25. Struggles over the sociological canon: Exiles and other outsiders / Bryan S. Turner

26. Challenging academic freedom / Nick Osbaldiston.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781800376649 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.