Sociology of Knowledge

Martin Ryder
University of Colorado at Denver
School of Education

Basics

What is the Sociology of Knowledge? (Meja and Stehr)
What is the Sociology of Knowledge? (Wikipedia) mirror
What is the Sociology of Knowledge? (Michael Kearl)
Sociology of Knowledge (Robert K. Merton, 1937)
Sociology of Knowledge (Drislane and Parkinson)
Sociology of Knowledge (University of Sussex)
Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (Wikipedia)

Resources

Intellectuals (Alan Liu)
corollary sites that link to this page.

Articles

Larry Ridner
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann (1966) The Social Construction of Reality
- Berger profile (William Jamison)
- Berger profile (Wikipedia)
- Berger home page (Boston University)
- Ndwandwe (2000)A brief explanation of Berger and Luckmann's theory pdf
- Amazon reviews mirror mirror
- summary (by Richard Dillman)
- summary (by Paul Wehr)
- Reading Guide (Dave Harris)
- Diemers (1999) On the Social Dimension of Information Quality and Knowledge
- Hahn Teaching Faulkner (includes exerpts from Berger and Luckmann)
- Jamison (1998) The Similarity Between Hegel and Berger
Berger writings online (Albert Benschop)
Boulding (1966) The Economics of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Economics
Texts courtesy of Andy Blunden
- Durkheim (1914) Pragmatism and the Question of Truth
- Foucault (1969) The Archaeology of Knowledge
- Georg Lukacs
- Pareto (1916) Mind and Society
- Weber (1897) The Methodological Foundations of Sociology.
Brint (1994) In an Age of Experts
- review by Scott London
David Bloor
- Bloor profile (Wikipedia)
- Bloor profile (ISSTI)
- Strong Programme (Michael Rectenwald)
- Strong Programme (Wikipedia) mirror
- Strong Programme (cabin fever @everything2,com)
- Knowledge and Social Imagery (1991)
  - exerpts
Burne (1995) Mission in Modern Life: A Public Role for Religious Beliefs
Curry (1977) The Dialectic of the Knowledge Economy (EJS)
Fargo (2002) Relativism in the Sociology of Knowledge pdf
Andrew Feenberg
Michael Foucault
The Frankfurt School
Golinski (1998) Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science
Antonio Gramsci
von Hayek The Pretence of Knowledge (1974)
Thomas Kuhn
- Jones Science vs. Religion, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (philosopher.org)
- Kuhn profile (Wikipedia)
- Kuhn profile (Henk Tuten)
- Fuller (2000) Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times
  - book announcement (U. Chicago Press)
- Unrau (1998) Sociological Twist of Kuhn's Work Focus of Lecture
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  - outline by Frank Pajares
  - outline by Robert Wood
- Bromwich (1992) Higher Education and Group Thinking
Kusch (1998) Bibliography: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Lanham (1993) The Implications of Electronic Information for the Sociology of Knowledge
Claude Levi-Strauss
Locher (1999) Unacknowledged Roots and Blatant Imitation: Postmodernism and the Dada Movement (from the Electronic Journal of Sociology)
Longino (2001) Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Jean Francois Lyotard
Karl Mannheim
- Mannheim profile (Wikipedia)
- Mannheim profile (Project Bartleby)
- Mannheim profile (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia)
- Mannheim profile (Britannica Online)
- Mannheim profile (Ron Bolender)
- Mannheim profile (Trent University Archives)
- Mannheim profile (Ron Bolander)
- George Ritzer (1992) Karl Mannheim doc
- Ritzer and Goodman (2003) Mannheim, Marx, and Ideology
- Pels (1996) Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Toward a New Agenda
- Mannheim Web Index (Jame Unnever)
Meja and Stehr, eds: Sociology of Knowledge (1999)
- review by Karel Müller
Mizrach The Project of the Sociology of Knowledge and Cognitive Anthropology
Nola A Bluffers Guide to Science Studies and the Sociology of "Knowledge"
Carl Popper (Stephen Thornton Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Roberts (1998) Rereading Lyotard: Knowledge, Commodification and Higher Education (from the Electronic Journal of Sociology)
Max Scheler
- Scheler profile (Wikipedia)
- Scheler profile (Manfred Frings)
- Max Scheler Society of North America
- Synopsis of Scheler's Thought (Manfred Frings)
- Max Scheler (Erratic Impact)
Schneider Ideology, Culture, and the Sociology of Knowledge
Shapin (1995) Here and Everywhere: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Sosteric (1996) Electronic Journals: The Grand Information Future (from the Electronic Journal of Sociology).
Robert M. Young
- Marxism and the History of Science (1990)
- Science, Ideology and Donna Haraway (1992)
- Science, Ideology and Human Ancestry (1995)

Courses

Sociology of Knowledge (Peter Weeks)
Sociology of Knowledge (Phillip Kayal)
Sociology of Knowledge (Schneiderman)

Corollary Sites