Acknowledgements

Introduction

Volker Meja

Nico Stehr

PART I INTELLECTUAL PRECURSORS OF SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE

`On the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man', in James E. Curtis and John W. Petras (eds), The Sociology of Knowledge: A Reader, London: Duckworth, 89--96

Francis Bacon

`Concerning the Production of Consciousness', in James E. Curtis and John W. Petras (eds), The Sociology of Knowledge: A Reader, London: Duckworth, 97--108

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

`The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof', Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, vol. 1, New York: International Publishers, 71--83 and references

Karl Marx

`From Metaphysics to Positivist Science', in George Simpson (ed.), Auguste Comte: Sire of Sociology, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 117--36 and bibliography

Auguste Comte

`On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense', in Daniel Breazeale (ed.), Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche's Notebooks of the Early 1870's, Atlantic Highlands, NJ and London: Humanities Press, 79--91

Friedrich Nietzsche

`Selections from ``The Mind and Society''', in James E. Curtis and John W. Petras (eds), The Sociology of Knowledge: A Reader, London: Duckworth, 131--49

Vilfredo Pareto

`Projection and Wish-fulfillment', The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, vol. 6 of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, London: The Hogarth Press, 258--9 and references and Sigmund Freud ([1927--31] 1961), The Future of an Illusion, vol. 21 of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, London: The Hogarth Press, 15--20 and references

Sigmund Freud

PART II THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE

`Sociology of Knowledge', in Anthony Giddens (ed.), Emile Durkheim: Selected writings, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 250--68, abbreviations and references

Emile Durkheim

`The Social Frameworks of Memory', in Lewis A. Coser (ed.), On Collective Memory, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 182--9

Maurice Halbwachs

`The Transition to the Higher Mental Types', How Natives Think, London: George Allen & Unwin, 361--86

Lucien Levy-Bruhl

`Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism', in James E. Curtis and John W. Petras (eds), The Sociology of Knowledge: A Reader, London: Duckworth, 387--402

Max Weber

`Class Consciousness', History and Class Consciousness, London: Merlin Press, 46--55, 81 and references

Georg Lukacs

`Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry', in Jo Ann Boydston (ed.), Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, in John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925--1953, vol. 12, Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 66--85

John Dewey

`A Behavioristic Account of the Significant Symbol', in James E. Curtis and John W. Petras (eds), The Sociology of Knowledge: A Reader, London: Duckworth, 255--60

George Herbert Mead

PART III THE CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE

`The Sociology of Knowledge: Formal and Material Problems', in Volker Meja and Nico Stehr (eds), Knowledge and Politics: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute, London and New York: Routledge, 17--36

Max Scheler

`The Problem of a Sociology of Knowledge', Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 134--90

Karl Mannheim

`The Ideological and Sociological Interpretation of Intellectual Phenomena', in Volker Meja and Nico Stehr (eds), Knowledge and Politics: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute, London and New York: Routledge, 37--50

Karl Mannheim

`The Sociology of Knowledge', Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 237--80 and references

Karl Mannheim

PART IV THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE DISPUTE

`Competition as a Cultural Phenomenon', in Volker Meja and Nico Stehr (eds), Knowledge and Politics: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute, London and New York: Routledge, 53--85

Karl Mannheim

`Ideology and Utopia', Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 49--96 and references

Karl Mannheim

`Philosophy and Sociology,' in Volker Meja and Nico Stehr (eds), Knowledge and Politics: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute, London and New York: Routledge, 196--208

Hannah Arendt

`The Sociology of Knowledge and Epistemology', in Volker Meja and Nico Stehr (eds), Knowledge and Politics: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute, London and New York: Routledge, 261--6

Ernst Grunwald

`The Sociological Method and the Problem of Truth', in Volker Meja and Nico Stehr (eds), Knowledge and Politics: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute, London and New York: Routledge, 129--39

Herbert Marcuse

`A New Concept of Ideology?', in Volker Meja and Nico Stehr (eds), Knowledge and Politics: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute, London and New York: Routledge, 140--57

Max Horkheimer

`The Conception of Ideology and Its Vicissitudes', in Volker Meja and Nico Stehr (eds), Knowledge and Politics: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute, London and New York: Routledge, 241--60

Helmuth Plessner

`The Social Determination of Ideas', Social Research, 5 (2), May, 182--205

Hans Speier

`The Sociology of Knowledge and Its Consciousness', Prisms, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 37--49

Theodor W. Adorno

`The Sociology of Knowledge', The Open Society and Its Enemies, vol. 2 London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 212--23, 351--2

Karl Popper

`The Frankfurt School's Critique of Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge', Telos, 20, Summer, 72--89

Martin Jay

Name Index

Acknowledgements

An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in volume I

PART I THE CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE REVISITED

`The Theoretical Possibility of the Sociology of Knowledge', Ethics, 51, July, 392-418

Arthur Child

`The Sociology of Knowledge', Social Theory and Social Structure, New York: Free Press, 510-42

Robert K. Merton

`Methodological Consequences of the Sociology of Knowledge', American Journal of Sociology, 46 (3), November, 316-30

C. Wright Mills

`An Approach to the Sociology of Knowledge', Sociological Theory and Modern Society, New York: Free Press, 139-65

Talcott Parsons

` The Sociology of Knowledge and Sociological Theory', in Llewellyn Gross (ed.), Symposium on Sociological Theory, New York: Harper & Row, 567-602

Kurt H. Wolff

`Types and Forms of Knowledge', The Social Frameworks of Knowledge, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 21-42 and references

Georges Gurvitch

`The Conservative Tradition in the Sociology of Knowledge', Kyklos, 13 (1), 90-100

Werner Stark

`Sociology and Theory of Knowledge', The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge, New York: Columbia University Press, 1-22

Florian Znaniecki

PART II CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGIES OF KNOWLEDGE

`Sociology of Knowledge: New Perspectives Part 1', Sociology, 5 (2), May, 149-68

Norbert Elias

`Sociology of Knowledge: New Perspectives Part 2', Sociology, 5 (3), September, 355-70

Norbert Elias

`Relativism, Rationalism and the Sociology of Knowledge', in Martin Hollis Steven Lukes (eds), Rationality and Relativism, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 21-47

Barry Barnes

David Bloor

`Modern Society as a Risk Society', in Nico Stehr and Richard V. Ericson (eds), The Culture and Power of Knowledge, Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 199-214

Ulrich Beck

`Identity as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge', in James E. Curtis and John W. Petras (eds), The Sociology of Knowledge: A Reader, London: Duckworth, 373-84

Peter L. Berger

`Introduction: The Problem of the Sociology of Knowledge', The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 13-30, 215-18

Peter L. Berger

Thomas Luckmann

`Durkheim and Mauss Revisited: Classification and the Sociology of Knowledge', in Nico Stehr and Volker Meja (eds), Society and Knowledge: Contemporary Perspectives in the Sociology of Knowledge, New Brunswick and London: Transaction Books, 51-75

David Bloor

`The Strong Programme in the Sociology of Knowledge', in David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1-19 and references

David Bloor

`Science and Knowledge', The Archaeology of Knowledge, London: Tavistock Publications, 178-95

Michel Foucault

`Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture', The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays, New York: Basic Books, 3-30

Clifford Geertz

`Technology and Science as ``Ideology''', Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics, London: Heinemann, 81-122, 125-7

Jurgen Habermas

`The Social Structure of Science: Complaints and Disorders', The Science Question in Feminism, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 58-81 and references

Sandra Harding

`The Fabrication of Facts: Toward a Microsociology of Scientific Knowledge', in Nico Stehr and Volker Meja (eds), Society and Knowledge: Contemporary Perspectives in the Sociology of Knowledge, New Brunswick and London: Transaction Books, 223-44

Karin Knorr-Cetina

`The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions', The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 92-110

Thomas S. Kuhn

`Knowledge and Utility: Implications for the Sociology of Knowledge', in Nico Stehr and Volker Meja (eds), Society and Knowledge: Contemporary perspectives in the Sociology of Knowledge, New Brunswick and London: Transaction Books, 77-96

Michael J. Mulkay

`Conclusion', Vertical Classification: A Study in Structuralism and the Sociology of Knowledge, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 155-84, 217 and references

Barry Schwartz

`Women's Experience as a Critique of Sociology', The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 11-28, 207

Dorothy E. Smith

`The Texture of Knowledge Societies', Knowledge Societies, London: Sage Publications Ltd, 222-60 and references

Nico Stehr

`The Sociology of Art and the Concept of a World-view', Hermeneutic Philosophy and the Sociology of Art, London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan paul, 53-64 and references

Janet Wolff

PART III PROSPECTS

`Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Toward a New Agenda', Sociological Theory, 14 (1), March, 30-48

Dick Pels

`Social Science, Epistemology, and the Problem of Relativism', Social Epistemology, 2 (3), 263-71

Volker Meja

Nico Stehr

`From Social Theory to Sociology of Knowledge and Back: Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Intellectual Knowledge Production', Sociological Theory, 12 (3), November, 266-78

Harvey Goldman

`The New Sociology of Knowledge', Annual Review of Sociology, 20, 305-29

Ann Swidler

Jorge Arditi

Name Index

Acknowledgements

An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in volume I

PART I THE CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE REVISITED

`The Theoretical Possibility of the Sociology of Knowledge', Ethics, 51, July, 392--418

Arthur Child

`The Sociology of Knowledge', Social Theory and Social Structure, New York: Free Press, 510--42

Robert K. Merton

`Methodological Consequences of the Sociology of Knowledge', American Journal of Sociology, 46 (3), November, 316--30

C. Wright Mills

`An Approach to the Sociology of Knowledge', Sociological Theory and Modern Society, New York: Free Press, 139--65

Talcott Parsons

`The Sociology of Knowledge and Sociological Theory', in Llewellyn Gross (ed.), Symposium on Sociological Theory, New York: Harper & Row, 567--602

Kurt H. Wolff

`Types and Forms of Knowledge', The Social Frameworks of Knowledge, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 21--42 and references

Georges Gurvitch

`The Conservative Tradition in the Sociology of Knowledge', Kyklos, 13 (1), 90--100

Werner Stark

`Sociology and Theory of Knowledge', The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge, New York: Columbia University Press, 1--22

Florian Znaniecki

PART II CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGIES OF KNOWLEDGE

`Sociology of Knowledge: New Perspectives Part 1', Sociology, 5 (2), May, 149--68

Norbert Elias

`Sociology of Knowledge: New Perspectives Part 2', Sociology, 5 (3), September, 355--70

Norbert Elias

`Relativism, Rationalism and the Sociology of Knowledge', in Martin Hollis and Steven Lukes (eds), Rationality and Relativism, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 21--47

Barry Barnes

David Bloor

`Modern Society as a Risk Society', in Nico Stehr and Richard V. Ericson (eds), The Culture and Power of Knowledge, Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 199--214

Ulrich Beck

`Identity as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge', in James E. Curtis and John W. Petras (eds), The Sociology of Knowledge: A Reader, London: Duckworth, 373--84

Peter L. Berger

`Introduction: The Problem of the Sociology of Knowledge', The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 13--30, 215--18

Peter L. Berger

Thomas Luckmann

`Durkheim and Mauss Revisited: Classification and the Sociology of Knowledge', in Nico Stehr and Volker Meja (eds), Society and Knowledge: Contemporary Perspectives in the Sociology of Knowledge, New Brunswick and London: Transaction Books, 51--75

David Bloor

`The Strong Programme in the Sociology of Knowledge', in David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1--19 and references

David Bloor

`Science and Knowledge', The Archaeology of Knowledge, London: Tavistock Publications, 178--95

Michel Foucault

`Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture', The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays, New York: Basic Books, 3--30

Clifford Geertz

`Technology and Science as ``Ideology''', Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics, London: Heinemann, 81--122, 125--7

Jurgen Habermas

`The Social Structure of Science: Complaints and Disorders', The Science Question in Feminism, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 58--81 and references

Sandra Harding

`The Fabrication of Facts: Toward a Microsociology of Scientific Knowledge', in Nico Stehr and Volker Meja (eds), Society and Knowledge: Contemporary Perspectives in the Sociology of Knowledge, New Brunswick and London: Transaction Books, 223--44

Karin Knorr-Cetina

`The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions', The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 92--110

Thomas S. Kuhn

`Knowledge and Utility: Implications for the Sociology of Knowledge', in Nico Stehr and Volker Meja (eds), Society and Knowledge: Contemporary perspectives in the Sociology of Knowledge, New Brunswick and London: Transaction Books, 77--96

Michael J. Mulkay

`Conclusion', Vertical Classification: A Study in Structuralism and the Sociology of Knowledge, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 155--84, 217 and references

Barry Schwartz

`Women's Experience as a Critique of Sociology', The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 11--28, 207

Dorothy E. Smith

`The Texture of Knowledge Societies', Knowledge Societies, London: Sage Publications Ltd, 222--60 and references

Nico Stehr

`The Sociology of Art and the Concept of a World-view', Hermeneutic Philosophy and the Sociology of Art, London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan paul, 53--64 and references

Janet Wolff

PART III PROSPECTS

`Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Toward a New Agenda', Sociological Theory, 14 (1), March, 30--48

Dick Pels

`Social Science, Epistemology, and the Problem of Relativism', Social Epistemology, 2 (3), 263--71

Volker Meja

Nico Stehr

`From Social Theory to Sociology of Knowledge and Back: Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Intellectual Knowledge Production', Sociological Theory, 12 (3), November, 266--78

Harvey Goldman

`The New Sociology of Knowledge', Annual Review of Sociology, 20, 305--29

Ann Swidler

Jorge Arditi

Name Index