It is uncommon for philosophers to appeal to sociology in support of an epistemological theory, and it 1S even more uncommon for them to recognize and accept sociological findings when they are unsolicited. Recent sociology and anthropology of knowledge is a case in point: though some of us have on occasion found themselves embroiled in theoretical controversies with philosophers, we rarely suc...

The political ideology of neoliberalism is widely recognized as having influenced the organization of national and global economies and public policies since the 1970s. In this article, we examine the relationship between the neoliberal variant of globalization and science. To do so, we develop a framework for sociology of science that emphasizes closer ties among political sociology, the socio...

Introduction. As the number of scientific publications on problems education increases, it is increasingly possible to detect desire authors consider them as sociological. Meanwhile, many do not meet requirements for articles based data from sociological empirical studies. In this regard, there a need separate different nature, orientation, and functions, which focus education. The purpose arti...

Growing up in a political as well as an intellectual environment, Max Weber not only sought to comprehend the world but also to change it. Arguably, he took Karl Marx’s 11th. Thesis on Feuerbach that “philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it,” far more seriously than its author. Marx, after all, did not reflect, in any systematic fashion...