sociology of knowledge

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sociology
noun[U]
uk
/ˌsəʊ.siˈɒl.ə.dʒi/us
/ˌsoʊ.siˈɑː.lə.dʒi/
the study of the relationships between people living in groups, especially in ...
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knowledge
noun
uk
/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/
understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by ...
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(Definition ofsociologyandknowledgefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A stance in favor of epistemic relativism is hardly revelatory, as anyone familiar with issues in thesociologyofknowledgeknows.
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Thus, it is different from the familiar idea of complementary combination of hermeneutics and thesociologyofknowledge.
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This focus has been classified by philosophers as either the psychology of discovery or thesociologyofknowledge.
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With the emergence of the general formulation of the total conception of ideology, the simple theory of ideology develops into thesociologyofknowledge.
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Shapin is a sociologist by profession, with a background in thesociologyofknowledge.
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His texts are published in 10 languages and cover thesociologyofknowledge, communication, contemporary religion, death and dying and video analysis.
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His essays on thesociologyofknowledgehave become classics.
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His research interests include social movements, gendered nationalism, memory studies andsociologyofknowledge.
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Her work is interdisciplinary and international; its scope encompasses medical sociology, childbirth and midwifery issues, bioethics, race, disability, and thesociologyofknowledge.
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Thesociologyofknowledge, by contrast, focuses on the production of non-scientific ideas and social constructions.
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These theories include informal logic, social epistemology, ethnomethodology, speech acts, thesociologyofknowledge, the sociology of science, and social psychology.
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This line of thinking led to a natural alliance with late developments in thesociologyofknowledge.
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Marxist epistemology also takes a central place in his work onsociologyofknowledgefrom 1985.
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To them there was no knowledge but only thesociologyofknowledge.
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One of the leading sociologists of his times, he was a specialist of thesociologyofknowledge.
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The field commonly interacts with thesociologyofknowledge, science and technology studies, and social epistemology.
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With the dominance of functionalism through the middle years of the 20th century, thesociologyofknowledgetended to remain on the periphery of mainstream sociological thought.
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Stark was internationally recognized for work in the sociology of religion, social theory, andsociologyofknowledge.
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