Sociology of Knowledge

This book examines the political economy of academic capitalism, investigating why and how the economic logic of capital accumulation has come to dominate the academy, how this domination has changed the struggle for recognition in the academic field, and the consequences for academic freedom and th..

A seminal volume in the burgeoning sociology of ignorance, this collection introduces theoretical and empirical tools for studying the productive uses of ignorance in political, social and legal organizations. _x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society..

Centers and Peripheries in Knowledge Production..

The limits of one-dimensional theory are strikingly revealed in the schools that the founders of the major sociological traditions established. In this volume Max Weber is presented as the theorist who laid out new starting points and the author considers his work as a response, in part, to the idea..

The book will argue that Marxism underlaboured by critical realism makes a significant difference not only to how education is viewed but also (potentially) in the practical realisation of education’s revolutionary impulse...

This book considers the nature and possibilities of conceptual change and transformation under conditions of globalization, especially with regard to Chinese social and cultural concepts. It argues that the influence of globalization promotes the spread of West European and American social science c..

This book analyzes the nature and role of interpretation in social interactions, decision making in social science enquiries and consumer marketing, in the use of statistics and causal analysis, in consumer evaluations of products and in interpreting problematic situations along side biases arising ..

Despite the widespread opinion that calamities foster learning processes, there is much evidence that failure remains the norm. This book explores whether learning in the context of calamities occurs at all, and if so, under which conditions learned knowledge and practices can be achieved and preser..

Despite the widespread opinion that calamities foster learning processes, there is much evidence that failure remains the norm. This book explores whether learning in the context of calamities occurs at all, and if so, under which conditions learned knowledge and practices can be achieved and preser..

Metatheory for the 21st Century is one of the many exciting results of over four years of in-depth engagement between two communities of scholar-practitioners: critical realism and integral theory. Building on its origins at a symposium in Luxembourg in 2010, this book examines the points of connect..

Metatheory for the 21st Century is one of the many exciting results of over four years of in-depth engagement between two communities of scholar-practitioners: critical realism and integral theory. Building on its origins at a symposium in Luxembourg in 2010, this book examines the points of connect..

In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimension..