Talk:Sociology of knowledge

message: Folks, I have just created Knowledge#Sociology of knowledge with a link to here. Would someone like to build the section into a decent piece? Banno 21:40, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
::Actually I was interessed in the difference between sociology of scientific knowledge (SKK), sociology of science and sociology of knowledge. As I am German but have to deal with English text - I am a bit confused. My question is: What is the difference between the last two concepts as in German there only excists an entry about sociology of knowledge whereas sociology of science seems to mean the same??? Thank you very much for helping me to understand the difference. Perditta 12.Nov.08  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.178.100.223 (talk) 09:02, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knowledge 

message: The following sentence makes two points and does not cite any sources for them:
"This study still guides the sociology of knowledge and has been claimed to have sparked single-handedly much of postmodernism."
Fairly strong points that could do with sourcing  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.106.149.39 (talk) 16:11, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foucault 

message: I think it is unfortunate that the section of Latour links to the wikipedia article on Social Construction. 
Not that Latour don't use this term, but he uses it in the exact opposite of what that article defines it as. Not to show that science developes "because people agree to behave as if it exists or follow certain conventional rules", but to show that only by thurough contruction can science be precise enough to establish facts.
He discusses this in "Reassembling the social: an introduction to Actor-network theory".
How do you suggest such nuances can be articulated in the wiki-page on socialogy of knowledge?
(Monkikopimi (talk) 09:56, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latour 

message: I have added the knew section Knowledge ecology, which bring an interesting perspective, that to my opinion is relevant to this article. This section would benefit of some work.
If you disagree about the relevance of this section, would you suggest other idea how to formulate the idea in this article?
Thanks
--Nabeth (talk) 13:50, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knowledge ecology 

message: It's important to note there is a sociology of knowledge page AND a sociology of scientific knowledge page. I think the latter should be merged into the former as a subcategory, but if not, lets be keeping them properly distinct!! --Tomsega (talk) 16:13, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: yes they should be distinct.  they should not be merged. --Buridan (talk) 17:58, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Sociology of Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge

message: Vico's work in early 18th century prefigures the main concepts of sociology of knowledge and therefore deserves mention.
In his book New ScienceThe New Science, Vico states that human history, the social realm, is man's creation. Whilst his influence was not large, he appears to be the first to make a clear distinction between epistemologies for natural world and the social world. He forms a dialectic of knowledge, society and language to inform his historical and sociological methods.ConBlanchet (talk) 16:52, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any mention of Giambattista Vico? 

message: "Knowledge ecology, and its related concept information ecology has been elaborated by different academics and practitioners such as Thomas H. Davenport,[22] Bonnie Nardi,[23] or Swidler." Who is Swidler? Leonard? GangofOne (talk) 21:54, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swidler 

message: This section makes statements about Legitimation Code Theory—how it emerged, whose work influenced it, what it's used for, where it's used—without actually explaining what it is, i.e. what sociological claims it makes and what sorts of research and theoretical assumptions go into those claims.  --47.215.156.213 (talk) 21:11, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legitimation Code Theory