Sociology of Knowledge

Basics

• What is the Sociology of Knowledge? (Meja and Stehr)
• What is the Sociology of Knowledge? (Wikipedia)
• What is the Sociology of Knowledge? (Michael Kearl)
• Sociology of Knowledge (Drislane and Parkinson)
• Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (Wikipedia)

Resources

• Intellectuals (Alan Liu)

Articles

• Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann (1966) The Social Construction of Reality
  • Berger profile (Wikipedia)
  • Ndwandwe (2000)A brief explanation of Berger and Luckmann's theory pdf
  • Amazon reviews
  • summary (by Richard Dillman)
  • summary (by Paul Wehr)
  • Reading Guide (Dave Harris)
  • Diemers (1999) On the Social Dimension of Information Quality and Knowledge
• Berger writings online (Albert Benschop)
• 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)
  • Strong Programme (cabin fever @everything2,com)
  • Knowledge and Social Imagery (1991)
    • exerpts
• Burne (1995) Mission in Modern Life: A Public Role for Religious Beliefs
• 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
• 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
• Longino (2001) Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Jean Francois Lyotard
• Karl Mannheim
  • Mannheim profile (Wikipedia)
  • Mannheim profile (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia)
  • Mannheim profile (Britannica Online)
  • Mannheim profile (Trent University Archives)
  • George Ritzer (1992) Karl Mannheim doc
  • Ritzer and Goodman (2003) Mannheim, Marx, and Ideology
  • 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)
• Max Scheler
  • Scheler profile (Wikipedia)
  • Scheler profile (Manfred Frings)
  • 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
• Soeffner and Zifonun (2008) Integration – An Ou tline from the Perspective of the Sociology of Knowledge (Quhttp://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/index_eng.php>Qualitative Sociology Review
• Robert M. Young

Courses

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

• Actor-Network Theory
• Social Constructionism
• Social Construction of Technology
• Theory of Technology
• Socio-Cultural Theory
• Activity Theory
• Scientism
• Internet Culture
• Organizational Learning

All links verified May 06, 2012.