The Structures of Knowledge and the Future of the Social Sciences

Two Postulates, Two Propositions and a Closing Remark

Bibliographic Data

ID12433709
AuthorsRichard Lee (0000-0002-2196-4859, Binghamton University, corresponding author), Richard E Lee
Year2000
Pages786-796
Publication date2000-11-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of World-Systems Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1076-156X • E-ISSN: 1076-156X
PublisherUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5195/jwsr.2000.201
OpenAlexW2301180455
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited6

From the beginning of the long sixteenth century, the practices of knowledge production took the form of a complex of processes which produced over time an intellectual and institutional hierarchy within which authoritative knowledge was progressively defined as the other of societal/ moral values. These processes of knowledge formation, in articulation with those sets of processes associated with the economic and political spheres, account for the dominant relational setting disciplining human cognition, and thus the cultural parameters of action. This long-term pattern of the modern world-system we shall call the structures of knowledge

Action (physics · Articulation (sociology · Closing (real estate · Cognition · Epistemology · Hierarchy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology

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