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Sociology
711: Sociology of
Knowledge THE SYLLABUS Required books:
Part I Historical Considerations Assign: Marx and Engels (1848), German Ideology (selections). Karl Mannheim (1936), Ideology and Utopia (selections) Bernard Barber (1959), 'The Sociology of Science.' Part II 'Hegelian' Sociology of Knowledge Assign: Berger and Luckman, Social Construction of Reality; Manicas, 'The Absent Ontology of Society' (Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, handout) Part III 'The Strong Programme' Assign: Barry Barnes, Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory (handout). David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery. Manicas and Rosenberg, 'Naturalism, Epistemological Individualism and "The Strong Programme" in the Sociology of Knowledge,' and 'The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge,' Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior (1985, 1987). Part IV 'The Paris School' Assign: Bruno Latour, Science in Action; Andy Pickering, Science as Practice and Culture, Introduction. Part V The Social Sciences Assign: Manicas, 'The Social Science Disciplines: The American Model,' Discourses on Society (1990). Part VI Concluding Problems SSK and Ethnomethodology. Assign: David Bloor, 'Left and Right Wittgensteinians,' and Michael Lynch, 'From the "Will to Theory" to the Discursive Collage: A Reply to Bloor's "Left and Right Wittgensteinians," in Pickering (ed.) Science as Practice and Culture. Reflexivity. Assign: Collins and Yearley, 'Epistemological Chicken' in Pickering, op. cit.; Steve Woolgar, 'A Reply to Collins and Yearley,' ibid. Trevor Pinch and Trevor Pinch, 'Reservations about Reflexivity and New Literary Forms or Why Let the Devil have all the Good Times' in Woolgar (ed.) Knowledge and Reflexivity (London: Sage, 1988). |
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