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Sociology of knowledge

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Sociology of Knowledge. --- Sociologíadelconocimiento.

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Sociology of occupations --- Sociology of knowledge --- Research --- Law and legislation

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How can we understand the intensifying interactions of science and society? It is the interdisciplinary field called science studies that provides us with a rich inventory of analytical approaches. They help us explore science as a practice, a subsystem, a culture, and an institution. Their joint observation: Science today is part and parcel of what has come to be known as 'knowledge society'. More than ever, knowledge production and consumption are in need of incessant monitoring and sophisticated reflection. Nine exemplary studies that inquire into, or are themselves examples of the dynamics of scientific knowledge, are included here: They cover issues as diverse as eugenics, climate research, and the role of historiography, and make use of different tools such as evolutionary reasoning, metaphor, and bibliometrics. Finally, they ponder the need for science to go public (PUS) as well as for society to regulate knowledge and to restructure universities as building blocks of our science system. Their joint message: Science studies can and should assume an active role in observing, reflecting, and communicating the intricate encounters of science and society today.

Sociology --- Impact of science & technology on society --- Science. --- Sociology of Knowledge. --- Sociology of Science. --- Sociology. --- Modern Society; Science; Sociology of Science; Sociology of Knowledge; Sociology

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“Contradiction” is a core concept in the humanities and the social sciences. Beside the classical ideas of logical or dialectical contradiction, instances of “lived” contradiction and strategies of coping with it are objects of this study. Contradiction Studies discuss the many ways in which explicit or implicit contradictions are negotiated in different political or cultural settings. This volume collects articles that tackle the concept of contradiction, practices of contradicting and lived contradictions from a number of relevant perspectives and assembles contributions from linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, political science, and media studies. The editors Prof. Dr. Gisela Febel is Professor Emerita for Romance Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen. Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf is Professor for North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen. Prof. Dr. Martin Nonhoff is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bremen.

Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse. --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Sociology of knowledge --- Communication --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Public opinion --- Sociology --- Social epistemology --- Contradiction in literature.