Sociology of Knowledge Books

New and Published Books

1. Childhoods Real and Imagined

   Volume 1: An introduction to critical realism and childhood studies

   By Priscilla Alderson

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   "This book is unusually rewarding in that its author has pulled off the rare trick of providing deep philosophical and theoretical underpinnings to a comprehensive reconsideration of childhood. Priscilla Alderson deploys Bhaskar's 'dialectical critical realism' to excellent effect, illuminating not...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Emotional Politics of Research Collaboration

   Edited by Gabriele Griffin, Annelie Bränström-Öhman, Hildur Kalman

   Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

   Research collaboration in the form of networks, projects and centers has become one of the dominant modes of engaging in research, especially funded research, across all academic domains. However, there has been little research on the processes of such collaborations, particularly their affective...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Philosophy and Systems Thinking

   A Mutual Synergy

   By John Mingers

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   Philosophy and Systems Thinking seeks to re-address the whole question of philosophy and systems thinking for the twenty first century and provide a new work that would be of value to both systems and philosophy. This is a highly opportune time when different fields – critical realism,...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Alienated Mind (Routledge Revivals)

   The Sociology of Knowledge in Germany 1918-1933

   By David Frisby

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   This book, first published in 1983, with a second edition in 1992, investigates the emergence of the sociology of knowledge in Germany in the critical period from 1918 to 1933. These years witnessed the development of distinctive paradigms centred on the works of Max Scheler, Georg Lukács and Karl...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Talking Criminal Justice

   Language and the Just Society

   By Michael Coyle

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

   The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. As the first in-depth, ethnographic study of language, Talking Criminal Justice examines the speech of moral entrepreneurs to illustrate how our justice language encourages social control and punishment. This...

   Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. Social Origins of Educational Systems

   By Margaret Archer

   Series: Classical Texts in Critical Realism

   First published in 1979, this now classic text presents a major study of the development of educational systems, focusing in detail on those of England, Denmark, France, and Russia - chosen because of their present educational differences and the historical diversity of their cultures and social...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. Innovation in Socio-Cultural Context

   Edited by Frane Adam, Hans Westlund

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Innovation - the process of obtaining, understanding, applying, transforming, managing and transferring knowledge - is a result of human collaboration, but it has become an increasingly complex process, with a growing number of interacting parties involved. Lack of innovation is not necessarily...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. G.H. Mead

   A Reader

   By G. H. Mead

   Edited by Filipe Carreira da Silva

   Series: Routledge Classics in Sociology

   This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) - one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early twentieth century sociology. Mead is an exceptional case amongst sociological classics in that, until now, there has been no comprehensive reader of his...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
9. Privatising the Public University

   The Case of Law

   By Margaret Thornton

   Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law is the first full-length critical study examining the impact of the dramatic reforms that have swept through universities over the last two decades. Drawing on extensive research and interviews in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada, Margaret...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
10. A Realist Theory of Art History

    By Ian Verstegen

    Series: Ontological Explorations

    As the theoretical alignments within academia shift, this book introduces a surprising variety of realism to abolish the old positivist-theory dichotomy that has haunted Art History. Demanding frankly the referential detachment of the objects under study, the book proposes a stratified,...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge