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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.
Contents
Contents
The sociology of knowledge: editor's introduction xviii
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 2
Fran M. Collyer
2 A diagnosis of the sociology of our time: Karl Mannheim and the
sociology of knowledge 23
Frédéric Vandenberghe
3 Religion, science, and civilisation: a history of the sociology of knowledge
in China 45
Hon-Fai Chen
PART II EARLY SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE
4 Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge 69
Barbara Hoenig
5 Wilhelm Jerusalem's 'Sociology of Cognition' and the Early Sociology of
Knowledge 84
Thomas Uebel
6 A tale of two sociologies: empiricism versus 'metaphysics' in social
research and the early sociology of knowledge 102
Silvia Rief and Alan Scott
7 Merton's pursuit of an 'American' version of the sociology of knowledge 122
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 142
Gina Zabludovsky and Héctor Vera
9 Sciences, symbols and society: Norbert Elias and the sociology of
knowledge 160
Philip D. Walsh
10 From the social to the communicative construction of knowledge 175
Hubert Knoblauch
11 Classical sociology of knowledge and contemporary constructivism 192
Stephan Fuchs
PART IV KNOWLEDGE MAKING, KNOWLEDGE WORKERS AND KNOWERS
12 Thinking about thinking 210
John Keane
13 The sociology of sociology: thought styles and thought collectives 226
Fran M. Collyer
14 Pleasure of sociological writing: a new project for a hermeneutic sociology
of knowledge 249
Anna Borisenkova
15 The potential for muckraking sociology to rebalance the sociological
project: putting 'sociological knowledge' under the microscope 266
Graham Scambler, Lance (Benny) Goodman and Miranda Scambler
16 Negotiating knowledge: complementary and alternative medicine
professions in the university 284
Caragh Brosnan
PART V POWER, INEQUALITY AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
17 Constraints on the power of scientific knowledge 304
Nico Stehr
18 Gender, climate change, and the production of scientific knowledge 330
Sam Kendrick and Joane Nagel
19 The social construction of maps: knowledge, maps and power 350
Christine Leuenberger
20 Resistant knowledge 361
Patricia Hill Collins
21 Fallacies of mainstream economics: unmasking ideas 379
David Fasenfest
PART VI INSTITUTIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL STRUGGLE
22 A divided republic of letters? Infrastructural coloniality and the
commercialisation of academic publishing 394
David Mills
23 Social explanations of science and the sociology of knowledge: a troubled
relationship 415
Stephen Turner
24 Negotiating academic knowledge: alternative academic institutions 433
Wiebke Keim and Claire Lapique
25 Struggles over the sociological canon: exiles and other outsiders 452
Bryan S. Turner
26 Challenging academic freedom 467
Nick Osbaldiston
