The Theoretical Possibility of the Sociology of Knowledge

Ethics ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Child
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Possibility

Geografia e indicadores sociais: Buscando o estabelecimento de bases para uma aproximação mais fecunda

GEOgraphia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Carlos Milléo
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Technical Object ◽  
Social State

Este artigo procura abordar a reduzida reflexão sobre os indicadores sociais provinda da ciência geográfica. Este ambiente, na opinião do autor tem colaborado decisivamente para consolidar a observação dos indicadores como mera estatística referida ao social. Para auxiliar na constituição de uma atmosfera mais fecunda de reflexão este artigo propõe o aproveitamento de algumas importantes contribuições provindas da sociologia do conhecimento, sobre a racionalidade (e seu espaço), assim como a investigação das possibilidades da observação dos indicadores sociais como um objeto técnico. Abstract This article aims to approach the reduced reflection about social indicators poceeding from Geography. This ambient, in author's opinion, has colaborated definetively to consolidate the observation of social indicators as a simple statistics about social state. To assist the constitution of a more productive atmosphere of reflection, this article proposes utilizing some important contributions from sociology of knowledge, about rationality (and its space), as well the investigation about possibilities of social indicators observation as a technical object.  

A Sociology of Knowledge on Humanitarianism and Displacement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estella Carpi ◽  
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Global South ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
East Region ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Postcolonial History ◽  
Middle East Region

In this chapter, the authors endeavor to build a sociology of knowledge of studies conducted on humanitarianism and war-induced displacement in the Middle East region, considering the cases of Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey in particular. A comparative analysis suggests that similarities and differences across the literature are not always motivated by specific forms of state governmentality. In this framework, postcolonial history seems to provide partial explanations. As a result, the displacement and humanitarianism literature need to transcend the state paradigm and focus on a larger variety of social and political factors. While most scholars have examined the work of the United Nations and of international institutions in the region, the authors highlight the need to learn from multilingual literature, especially that produced in the Global South, and from a deeper investigation of the principles and modalities of crisis management developed by actors from the Global South.

scholarly journals Quantification and classification in education: What is at stake?

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032110320
Author(s):  
Ann Christin Eklund Nilsen ◽  
Ove Skarpenes
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Ian Hacking ◽  
The Public ◽  
Statistical Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Bureaucracy ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Different Levels

Histories of statistics and quantification have demonstrated that systems of statistical knowledge participate in the construction of the objects that are measured. However, the pace, purpose, and scope of quantification in state bureaucracy have expanded greatly over the past decades, fuelled by (neoliberal) societal trends that have given the social phenomenon of quantification a central place in political discussions and in the public sphere. This is particularly the case in the field of education. In this article, we ask what is at stake in state bureaucracy, professional practice, and individual pupils as quantification increasingly permeates the education field. We call for a theoretical renewal in order to understand quantification as a social phenomenon in education. We propose a sociology-of-knowledge approach to the phenomenon, drawing on different theoretical traditions in the sociology of knowledge in France (Alain Desrosières and Laurent Thévenot), England (Barry Barnes and Donald MacKenzie), and Canada (Ian Hacking), and argue that the ongoing quantification practice at different levels of the education system can be understood as cultural processes of self-fulfilling prophecies.

The Dispersion of Gas Black and the Physical Properties of Rubber Mixtures

1931 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Grenquist
Keyword(s):  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Physical Properties ◽  
Good Method ◽  
Theoretical Possibility ◽  
Homogeneous Surface ◽  
Degree Of Dispersion ◽  
Highly Loaded

Abstract Many rubber technologists have already shown the importance of the dispersion of pigments in order to obtain the maxima physical properties of rubber mixtures. In a recent publication on the physical properties of gas black Carson and Sebrell state that they do not know of any article based on tests which deals with the relations between the dispersion of gas black and the properties of corresponding mixtures. Wiegand has already shown, in discussing mixtures highly loaded with gas black, that an incomplete dispersion of the pigments is no longer possible if the consistency of rubber falls below a definite value. He states that the lustre on the surface of a sample such as is used to determine tensile strength is a good method of estimating the degree of dispersion. Hauser upholds the idea that certain pigments attain a maximum dispersion during milling. In two preceding communications I studied the distribution of gas black in vulcanized and unvulcanized mixtures. I showed that changes in dispersion occur during milling as well as during vulcanization, and I discussed the theoretical possibility of obtaining the maximum dispersion and reënforcement. On the contrary, I am not concerned in these articles with the actual physical properties of the mixtures examined. In the present work, I wish to attempt to establish the relations between the dispersion of gas black and certain physical properties of rubber mixtures, whether vulcanized or not. The dispersion was determined by means of the microscope on freshly cut surfaces of mixtures vulcanized and unvulcanized, using a Leitz vertical illuminator and a Zeiss arc lamp as the source of light. Magnified about 300 times, the aggregates of gas black appear like a non-homogeneous black mass, while on the smoother and more homogeneous surface of the rubber the reflection is so increased that the field remains lighted.

Durkheim’s French Neo-Kantian Social Thought: Epistemology, Sociology of Knowledge, and Morality in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Kant Yearbook ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-56
Author(s):  
Dustin Garlitz
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Emotional Contagion ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Legal Philosophy ◽  
Paradigm Case ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Hans Kelsen ◽  
Formative Years

AbstractThis article presents Durkheim as a Neo-Kantian social thinker and a source of the theory of emotional contagion. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is examined as Durkheim’s paradigm case of Neo-Kantianism. He is first considered among the intellectual context of French Neo-Kantianism and its figures Charles Renouvier, Émile Boutroux, and Octave Hamelin, all whom were influential in his formative years. Durkheim’s Neo-Kantianism in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is then juxtaposed to the Neo-Kantian legal philosophy of Emil Lask and Hans Kelsen. Agued is that Durkheim’s notions of distortion and emotional contagion are his leading contributions to Neo-Kantianism.

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