W hat can sociology tell us about the humanities? Sociological understanding of the humanities began in a field first called ...

The early writings of Barry Barnes, as the co-founder of the Edinburgh School of sociology of scientific knowledge, are explored to bring out and to evaluate his main presuppositions and arguments.

It was customary in traditional approaches to the sociology of knowledge to bracket either questions about the possibility of the social determination of natural scientific ideas or questions about ...

Sociology formally developed at the high point of colonialism in the 19 th century. In this period, sociology came to be a central academic discipline for producing and reproducing colonial difference ...

Clearly, scholars as well as well-informed lay proponents of sociology of knowledge, Afrocentric theory, and relativism have long discredited or disallowed intromission of cultural and epistemological ...