Hermeneutic Sociology of Knowledge

Relativism in the Sociology of Knowledge

This study is going to investigate the problem of relativism in the writings of Karl Mannheim and David Bloor. These two scholars are important confessors of the sociology of knowledge. Mannheim began to apply the notion of relationism instead of relativism. Some critics believed to understand this object, others talked about the lack of real differences. My first aim is to differentiate these ...

HERE AND EVERYWHERE: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

Accounting Research and the Sociology of Knowledge

The challenge of an enabling accounting is to move beyond providing insightful and incisive critiques of accounting to attempting to make accounting work as a positive force in the pursuit of democratic, in the sense of universally inclusive modes, social progress. Enabling accounting gains energy and direction from the criticism that critical accounting research and scholarship provides and se...

Ethnography of Development Sociology

Development sociology as a distinct area of study gained prominence in the post-world war era with the evolving interest in political and economic progression of the post-colonial world. The emerging discipline from the mainstream sociology have been particularly interested in development paths and strategies adopted in nations in the various regions of the world with greater emphasis in develo...

Three Genres of Sociology of Knowledge and Their Marxist Origins

In the present paper I sketch three genres of sociology of knowledge and trace their roots to Marx and Marxist literature while reconstructing two causal and one hermeneutic strand in this context. While so doing the main focus is set on György Lukács and György Márkus and their interpretation of Marx’s contribution to sociologically minded theories of knowledge. As a conclusion I point out tha...