: Anthropologists on Israel: A Case Study in the Sociology of Knowledge . Toine van Teeffelen.

1978 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 706-708
Author(s):  
James M. Bellis
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge

Physical Science, Society and Technology: A Case Study in the Sociology of Knowledge

1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Fensham
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Physical Science ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Career Selection ◽  
Curriculum Organisation ◽  
Science Subject

Strong social forces operate to control the content of learning in those parts of the school curriculum that play a critical role in subsequent levels of education or career selection. The development of the senior science subject, Physical Science, is used as a case study for exploring the aspects of epistemology and curriculum organisation that evoke these sorts of forces. Interest in making science and technology more relevant and more accessible to all students at this level of schooling is evident in many recent international and Australian reports. Some of the difficulties that are likely to face such a direction for science education are suggested from the case study.

Usualization

2020 ◽  
pp. 124-177
Author(s):  
Hans-Jörg Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Individual Variation ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Unified Approach ◽  
Constructivist Model

The chapter discusses the nature of the process of usualization and explains its contribution to the conventionalization of innovations, to linguistic variation, change, and persistence. The process is explained with reference to Berger and Luckmann’s (1966) constructivist model of the sociology of knowledge. Usualization is responsible for the conventionalization of innovative form-meaning pairings as well as innovative forms and meanings. It is argued that linguistic variation on all dimensions, from form, structure, and meaning to situational, social, and individual variation can be handled by the unified approach suggested by the EC-Model. Usualization is a major factor in types of language change labelled by such terms as grammaticalization, lexicalization, pragmaticalization, idiomatization, and context-induced change. A case study of the development of the going-to future illustrates this potential. Not only variation and change, but also the persistence of structure are dynamic in the sense that it must be refreshed by continual usualization.

“Open the Gates Mek We Repatriate”: Caribbean slavery, constructivism, and hermeneutic tensions

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robbie Shilliam
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Erna Brodber ◽  
Politics Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Tradition ◽  
Atlantic Slavery

Constructivism has inherited a hermeneutic tension from the sociology of knowledge tradition regarding a strong ontological proposition that all social beings interpret their reality and a qualified epistemological proposition that some social beings are better able to interpret the reality of others. This article focuses on the politics of knowledge production that arise from this tension, namely that a privileged group, the ‘scholastic caste’, possesses the power to de-value the explanations of ‘lay’ groups’ experiences by deeming them to be insufficiently ‘scientific’. The article explores these politics by addressing the meaning of the abolition of and emancipation from Atlantic slavery, a case study popularly used in constructivist literature. Noting the absence of engagement by constructivists with the ‘lay’ interpretations of enslaved Africans and their descendants, the article explores a hermeneutical position developed by the Jamaican sociologist and novelist, Erna Brodber, which directly addresses these tensions.

Zeit und Handlung – Eine vergessene Theorie / Time and Action – A Forgotten Theory

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niklas Luhmann
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Action Theory ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theory Of Action ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Action Systems ◽  
The Subject

AbstractThe work of VAUVENARGUES (1715-1747) contains the proposal to define action as a countermovement which is made necessary by the continuous vanishing of the present. This was, at his time, an unsuccessful theory because a moralistic and later an utilitarian concept of action prevailed. The sociological theory of action systems, on the other hand, began with a critique of the utilitarian conception of action systems and never arrived at any depth in apprehending the relation of time and action. This historical case study is used to discuss problems of the sociology of knowledge and of action theory as well. It is shown that theories with incommensurable conceptual bases (action as movement and action as event) can nevertheless be compared. And it is proposed to replace the subject/action scheme by a time/action scheme.

‘Life is about risk management’: lay finance and the generalization of risk thinking to nonfinancial domains

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galit Ailon
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Relative Advantage ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
The Social ◽  
Online Texts ◽  
Lay Public

AbstractThis article examines the financial discourse on insecurity using a case study of the promotion of lay finance in Israel. Based on an analysis of financial courses, conferences, online texts and books that are designed for the lay public, the analysis shows that promoters of financial market engagements use everyday stories of marital and work-related insecurities—stories of divorce, betrayal, abandonment, unemployment and the like—to illustrate that economic risks are ubiquitous. Their stories render risk-thinking a general practice of knowing that is applicable to everyday life. At the same time, the stories shift the focus from the statistical meaning to the symbolic meaning of the risks taken. They present the risks of key social institutions as symbols of personal weakness, helplessness or humiliation, and grant the impersonal risks of financial markets a relative advantage. Analysing these findings from the perspective of the sociology of knowledge, I argue that lay financial discourse marks a radicalization of neoliberal discourse as studied by Foucault and that it is characterized by a much broader deconstructive scope than currently acknowledged. Its focus on frightening insecurities deconstructs the social knowledge that constitutes key institutions, exacerbating and feeding on their dissolution.

scholarly journals Research on the Economics Profession

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Colander
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Similar Work ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
Economics Profession ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Access To Data

In this article, I survey some recent contributions to research on the profession, both to bring nonspecialists up to date on what is being done and to inform specialists of other researchers who are doing similar work. The economics profession is interesting to economists for a number of interrelated reasons: 1) For prurient and professional interest: It is fun to know about oneself and one's profession. 2) As a case study: If economic theory is correct, it should apply to the economics profession. Since economists have firsthand knowledge of the economics profession and relatively easy access to data, it makes an excellent case study. 3) Because one has an interest in the sociology of knowledge: Recent developments in methodology and philosophy of science have made a knowledge of the scientists an important aspect of a knowledge of science; they are the lens through which science is interpreted. Understanding the tendency of scientists to aim that lens in particular directions and to distort the reality they are studying is necessary if one is to interpret their analyses correctly. These three reasons are interrelated, of course, and knowledge for one reason is often useful for others. But the division provides a useful way of organizing research about the profession.

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