Knowledge, Sociology of

The sociology of knowledge reflects and advances further a distinctly modern set of presuppositions about human knowledge: Knowledges develop out of particular sociohistorical circumstances and these circumstances inform what human beings know and their various ways of knowing. As a field of study it examines the social and group origin of ideas, arguing that the entire “ideational realm” (“knowledges,” ideas, ideologies, mentalities) develops within the context of a society's groups and institutions. But its theories also address broad sociological questions about the extent and limits of social and group influence through an examination of the social and cultural foundations of cognition and perception. Despite significant changes over time, classical and contemporary studies in the sociology of knowledge share a common theme: the social foundations of thought. Ideas, concepts, and belief systems share an intrinsic sociality explained by the contexts in which they emerge

Epistemology · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Premise · Presupposition · Realm · Social group · Social science · Social theory · Sociality · Sociology · Sociology of knowledge · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics

• Essays on the sociology of knowledge.

  Karl Mannheim•Essays on the sociology of…•1952

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• The social construction of reality

  Peter L Luckmann Thomas A Berger, David Colacci et al.•The social construction of reality•1967

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• Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge

  Joseph A Varacalli, Max Scheler et al.•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1982

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• Social Theory and Social Structure

  Robert King Merton•Social Theory and Social Structure•1968

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• Knowledge as Culture

  E Mccarthy•Knowledge as Culture•1996

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