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Society and knowledge : contemporary perspectives in the sociology of knowledge

Title
Society and knowledge : contemporary perspectives in the sociology of knowledge / edited by Nico Stehr and Volker Meja.
Publication
New Brunswick : Transaction Books, ©1984.

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Additional Authors
  • Stehr, Nico.
  • Meja, Volker.
Description
x, 414 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Knowledge, Sociology of
  • Science > Social aspects
  • sociology of knowledge
  • Wissenssoziologie
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Kennissociologie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the development of the sociology of knowledge / Nico Stehr and Volker Meja -- Is nonideological thought possible? / Joseph Gabel -- Is all social knowledge ideological? / Pierre Ansart -- Durkheim and Mauss revisited : classification and the sociology of knowledge / David Bloor -- Knowledge and utility : implications for the sociology of knowledge / Michael J. Mulkay -- The differentiation of advances in knowledge : the genesis of science / Niklas Luhmann -- Toward a sociology of cognition / Günter Dux -- The conventional component in knowledge and cognition / Barry Barnes -- The triple legitimation : a model for the sociology of knowledge / Gérard Namer -- The fabrication of facts : toward a microsociology of scientific knowledge / Karin Knorr-Cetina -- Knowledge and power : an interview by Peter Ludes / Norbert Elias -- On culture and power : the modern husbandry of knowledge / Juan E. Corradi -- Radical ideas and power / Johannes Weiss -- Kausalität, Anschaulichkeit and Individualität, or how cultural values prescribed the character and the lessons ascribed to quantum mechanics / Paul Forman -- Epistemology and mathematics / W. Baldamus -- Midwifery as science : an essay on the relation between scientific and everyday knowledge / Gernot Böhme -- The knowledge of the eater / Marie-Noël Stourdze-Plessis and Hélène Strohl.
ISBN
  • 0878554939
  • 9780878554935
  • 0878559507
  • 9780878559503
LCCN
83005043
OCLC
  • ocm09646472
  • 9646472
  • SCSB-97629
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library