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| Sociology of knowledge: The sociology of knowledge is a subfield of sociology that examines the social origins and consequences of knowledge. It is concerned with how knowledge is produced, distributed, and used in society, and how it is influenced by social factors such as class, race, gender, and power. See also Knowledge, Education, Education policiy, Society, Gender, Power, Knowledge representation._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jürgen Habermas on Sociology of Knowledge - Dictionary of Arguments
IV 210 Sociology of knowledge/Habermas: The reproduction of the lifeworld essentially consists in a continuation and renewal of tradition, which moves between the extremes of the mere continuation of, and a break with traditions. In the phenomenological tradition that goes back to Husserl and Alfred Schütz, the theory of society, which is based on such a culturally shortened concept of the world of life, consequently merges into the sociology of knowledge. >Cultural tradition, >Tradition. This applies, for example, to Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. >Life world, >E. Husserl, >Phenomenology. IV 211 Sociology of knowledge/Berger/Habermas: Berger and Luckmann declare their theory "of the social construction of reality" as follows: Thesis: Reality is socially constructed and sociology of knowledge has to investigate the processes in which this happens.(1) HabermasVsSociology of Knowledge/HabermasVsBerger/HabermasVsLuckmann: the one-sidedness of the culturalist concept of life becomes clear as soon as we take into account that communicative action is not only a process of understanding, that the actors, by communicating about something in a world, simultaneously participate in interactions, thereby forming, confirming and renewing their belonging to social groups and their own identity. Communicative actions are not only processes of interpretation in which cultural knowledge is exposed to a "test of the world"; they also mean processes of social integration and socialization. The world of life is "tested" in a completely different way: these tests are not directly measured by claims to validity that can be criticized, not by standards of rationality, but by standards for the solidarity of relatives and for the identity of the socialized individual. While the communication participants (...) reproduce the cultural knowledge (...), they simultaneously reproduce their belonging to collectives and their own identity. >Rationality. 1.P.L.Berger und Th. Luckmann, Die gesellschaftliche Konstruktion der Wirklichkeit, Frankfurt, 1969, S. 1._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28