Preface to the third edition 9
Introduction 13
I FORMATION OF KNOWLEDGE SOCIOLOGY
A precursor
1 reconnaissance, "philosophes" and "ideologues" 23
2 Revolution, restoration and the Spirit in history 30
3 alienation, ideology and class struggle 42
4 The shoots and the irrationalism of knowledge 55
B The modern sociology of knowledge
1 Collective Consciousness, prelogical thinking and social representations 65
2 Georg Simmel, Max Weber and Historicism 74
3 The German sociology of knowledge 90
4 Critical theory 115
5 The American sociology 124
II CURRENT APPROACHES THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIOLOGY
A The phenomenologically oriented sociology of knowledge
1 The meaningful constitution of the social world 141
2 The Social Construction of Reality 153
B The communicative turn
1 Communicative Construction of Reality 167
2 Sociological Hermeneutics 176
3 The Theory of Communicative Action 182
4 System Theory and Semantics 190
5 The frame analysis 197
C Structuralism and Beyond: Foucault, Bourdieu and Cultural Studies
1 Structuralism 203
2 The power of discourses 209
3 The Habit 218
4 Cultural Studies 227
III CURRENT ISSUES OF KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE RESEARCH
A Sociology of Science
1 Institutionalist Sociology 234
2 paradigms and developments in science 238
3 The "strong" program of Sociology 242
4 Cultures of Knowledge 246
5 Science and Sex 252
B Information and Knowledge Society
1 The Social Construction of Information and Knowledge Society 257
2 Economic approaches 259
3 From the review of the information society to the network society 263
4 The knowledge (society) sgesellschaft 267
5 risk, ignorance and confidence 277
C Knowledge Structure and Social Structure: The social distribution of knowledge
1 intellectuals, experts and professions 288
2 Education and Science 294
3 milieus 298
D knowledge research at the frontiers of knowledge Sociology
1 Collective Memory and mentality 303
2 From Categories, frames and representations: knowledge Sociological contributions of cognitive anthropology, social psychology, market research and rhetoric 311
3 media, knowledge and visualization 325
4 Knowledge Management 334
E Recent developments in the sociology of knowledge 341
Conclusion: What is knowledge? 351
Knowledge is socially mediated sense 352
Forms of knowledge 354
The social structure of knowledge 355
Knowledge society and culture of communication 357
literature 362
People register 381
Subject Index 386
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