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How can knowledge be reconfigured so as to enhance experience, enable participation, and augment environments? Shaping Knowledge argues that knowledge is a product of human activity in a social space, and as a result is a formative resource. The book takes a step beyond 'information visualisation' and imagines a learning environment in which knowledge can be manipulated as an object. Practical examples from the domains of health, education, travel, museums and libraries are offered, and chapters cover knowledge and space, unpredictability and authorship, as well as agility, ubiquity and mobili

Theory of knowledge --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Knowledge management. --- Knowledge representation (Information theory)

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Sociology as a Human Science is a set of foundational, wide-ranging and updated essays from Isaac Ariail Reed. Gathered together for the first time with a new introduction, they articulate a distinct perspective on concept and method in social science. Reed writes about realism and positivism, postmodernism and empiricism, mechanisms and causality, and power and history, developing thereby an understanding of the key debates out of which 21st-century sociology has developed. Carefully considering all manner of arguments in metatheory and epistemology and moving towards a program of interpretive explanation focused on culture and power, Reed places sociology at the center of debates about knowledge production across the humanities and social sciences. His reconstructive approach, positioned “after the posts” (poststructuralism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism) provides a way for interpretive sociology to provide analytically sound, theoretically extensive, and empirically rich understandings of social life. Isaac Ariail Reed is Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought in the Department of Sociology and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences and Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies, and the co-editor of Social Theory Now and The New Pragmatist Sociology: Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology --- sociologie --- cultuur --- Culture. --- Sociology. --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Sociological Theory. --- Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse. --- Public Sociology. --- Sociological Methods. --- Methodology.

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Robin Horton's critical and creative writings on African religious thought have influenced anthropologists, philosophers, and all those interested in the comparative study of religion and thought. This selection of some of his classic papers, with a new introduction and postscript by the author, traces Horton's theoretical ideas over thirty years. In attempting to understand African religious thought, he also tackles broader issues in the history and sociology of thought, such as secularisation and modernisation. Part I is a critical assessment of two established interpretive approaches, the Symbolist and the Theological. Part II proposes an alternative 'Intellectualist' approach that emphasises the structural and processual similarities between religious and scientific thinking. The postscript appraises the Intellectualist approach in the light of theorising about religion and world views.

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Africa --- Knowledge, Sociology of --- Religion --- Religion and science --- Sociologie de la connaissance --- Religion et sciences --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Religion and science. --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:1H30 --- 316.7 --- 316.75:001 --- 316:2 --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Sociology of knowledge --- Communication --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Public opinion --- Sociology --- Social epistemology --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Filosofie van de mens, wijsgerige antropologie --- Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- Wetenschapssociologie --- Godsdienstsociologie --- Religious aspects --- Religion. --- 316:2 Godsdienstsociologie --- 316.75:001 Wetenschapssociologie --- 316.7 Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology

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"Speaking from and about the periphery that Bosnia-Herzegovina has become, Danijela Majstorović theorises the affective entanglements of Bosnians’ responses to peripheralization with a decolonial commitment and an intimate understanding of what it has meant in her own material and social worlds between protests for civic justice and the ‘third wave’ of postsocialist migration from Bosnia-Herzegovina emplacing and displacing ‘peripheral selves'." -Catherine Baker, University of Hull, UK This book examines the making and breaking of peripheral selves in and from postsocialist Bosnia in an empirically rich self-reflexive account of politico-economic and ideological developments. Through world systems and postcolonial theory, historical and new materialist optics, discursive and affective analytical registers, and various qualitative methodological choices, the author analyzes peripheral subjectivity in connection to global proletarianization, as well as past and present resistance via social and personal movement(s). She refers to past Yugoslav socialist and anticolonial struggles as well as more recent ones, including the social justice and feminist collective, engaging with workers’ and women’s struggles in postwar Bosnia and the Justice for David movement. Finally, she analyzes the lives of new third-wave Bosnian migrants to Germany post-2015, placing them in juxtaposition with non-European migrants in Bosnian reception centers and exposing labor and race, border struggles and market as new variables for studying selves in this particular context. Writing about “situated knowledge” and “politics of location,” the author stresses the importance of strong affective ties within researcher-researched assemblages urging for deeper coalitions and solidarity among various peripheral, power-differentiated communities. This book will be of interest to readers with backgrounds in linguistics, sociology, post-Yugoslav history, cultural studies and anthropology. Danijela Majstorović is Professor of English Linguistics and Cultural Studies in the English Department at the University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her research interests involve qualitative social research, critical discourse analysis, critical theory, feminism and postcolonial theory. She has published extensively on postwar Bosnia’s postsocialist transformation, the role of the international community and local ethno-nationalist elites, youth ethnicity, women’s struggles, social movements and migrations.

Science --- Politics --- Mass communications --- Comparative linguistics --- History of Eastern Europe --- communicatie --- geschiedenis --- onderzoeksmethoden --- politiek --- linguïstiek --- Russia --- Linguistics --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Europe, Eastern --- Soviet Union --- Communication in politics. --- Research Methods in Language and Linguistics. --- Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse. --- Russian, Soviet, and East European History. --- Political Communication. --- Methodology. --- History.

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This book employs a corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) methodology to analyse the language used by university careers services in the UK. Drawing on a corpus which includes the public-facing websites of careers services from 24 Russell Group and 34 Post-92 universities, the author highlights some of the potentially problematic 'common-sense' views and ideas that are currently promoted to students using these services. She argues that the language used by university websites promotes neoliberal ideology and encourages the denaturalisation of such language. This book will be of interest to linguists, sociologists, education scholars, and scholars who are otherwise interested in the notion of employability. Maria Fotiadou completed her PhD at the University of Sunderland, UK. She is now an independent researcher, and her research interests are in corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, the discourse of employability, gender studies, language and power, ideology, and resistance.

Science --- Higher education --- Personnel management --- Comparative linguistics --- Linguistics --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- onderzoeksmethoden --- linguïstiek --- loopbaanontwikkeling --- Applied linguistics. --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Career education. --- Education, Higher. --- Applied Linguistics. --- Research Methods in Language and Linguistics. --- Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse. --- Career Skills. --- Higher Education. --- Methodology.