Society & Knowledge : Contemporary Perspectives In The Sociology Of Knowledge & Science

Acknowledgements vii Introduction: The Development of the Sociology of Knowledge and Science 1(30) Nico Stehr and Volker Meja Part I Fundamental Issues Introduction 31(84) 1. The Sociology of Knowledge 35(32) Robert K. Merton 2. Durkheim and Mauss Revisited: Classification and the Sociology of Knowledge 67(26) David Bloor 3. Knowledge and Utility: Implications for the Sociology of Knowledge 93(22) Michael J. Mulkay Part II Theoretical Perspectives Introduction 115(84) 4. Toward a Sociology of Cognition 117(34) Günter Dux 5. The Conventional Component in Knowledge and Cognition 151(24) Barry Barnes 6. The Fabrication of Facts: Toward a Microsociology of Scientific Knowledge 175(24) Karin Knorr-Cetina Part III Knowledge and Power Introduction 199(100) 7. Knowledge and Power: An Interview by Peter Ludes 203(40) Norbert Elias 8. Knowledge as Product and Property 243(26) Steve Fuller 9. Mixing Metaphors: Politics or Economics of Knowledge? 269(30) Dick Pels 10. Knowledge Societies 299(26) Nico Stehr Part IV Empirical Studies Introduction 325(4) 11. Polarity and Knowledge 329(28) Barry Schwartz 12. Kausalität, Anschaulichkeit, and Individualität or How Cultural Values Prescribed the Character and the Lessons Ascribed to Quantum Mechanics 357(16) Paul Forman 13. Midwifery as Science: An Essay on the Relation between Scientific and Everyday Knowledge 373(20) Gernot Böhme 14. The Discursive Production of Uncertainty: The OJ Simpson "Dream Team" and the Sociology of Knowledge Machine 393(46) Michael Lynch About the Contributors 439(6) Index 445