Titles with an (*) are most essential. For others, you can pick and choose as we go on.

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1 Sociology of Knowledge Reading List - Spring Semester 2012 Professor King-To Yeung Updated: February 10, Titles with an (*) are most essential. For others, you can pick and choose as we go on. Week 1: Classics A major move of Karl Mannheim s sociology of knowledge is his opposition to the European epistemological tradition, in which the search of truth, validity of claims, and the foundation of knowledge is most important. Replacing these traditional concerns is a social genesis of knowledge formation and change. In this week, we trace the theoretical and historical origins of Mannheim s sociology of knowledge through his dialogues with the Marxists, positivists, neo- Kantians, etc. Highlighted are the intellectual debates that prompted Mannheim to take on a particular approach to the social dimensions of thought styles. What are the subject matters for an investigation of sociology of knowledge? Does Sociology of knowledge require a unique set of methodological approaches? What roles do interests and values play in such a study? *Mannheim, Karl. [1929] Competition as a Cultural Phenomenon Pp in From Karl Mannheim, edited by Kurt H. Wolff. Oxford University Press. *Mannheim, Karl. [1925]1952. The Problem of a Sociology of Knowledge. Pp in Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Oxford University Press. (Note: no need to read the whole chapter, only up to p. 154) *Mannheim, Karl [1929]. Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge. San Diego: Harcourt. Selection: Chapter 1 Preliminary Approach to the Problem (pp. 1-54) & Chapter 5 The Sociology of Knowledge (pp ). Scheler, Max. [1924]1992. Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge Pp ; Formal Problems of the Sociology of Knowledge. Pp Max Scheler On Felling, Knowing, and Valuing, edited by Harold J. Bershady. University of Chicago Press. Znaniecki, Florian. [1940]1986. The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. Selection: Chapter 1 Sociology and Theory of Knowledge (pp. 1-22); Chapter 4 The Explorer as Creator of New Knowledge (pp ). Merton, Robert K. [1945]1973. Paradigm for the Sociology of Knowledge Pp in The Sociology of Knowledge: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Optional] Merton, Robert K Insiders and Outsiders: A Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge. American Journal of Sociology 78:

2 Adorno, Theodar W. [1967] The Sociology of Knowledge and Its Consciousness Pp in Prisms. MIT Press. (Or from The Essential Frankfurt School Reader, edited by Andrew Arato and Eike Gebhardt, 1982, New York: Continuum, pp ). [For your reference] Loader, Colin The Intellectual Development of Karl Mannheim: Culture, Politics, and Planning. Cambridge University Press. Introduction (pp. 1-9) Chapter 1 The Early Sociocultural Context (pp ) & Chapter 3 Transition ( ) (pp ). Week 2: Intersubjectivity, Worldview By establishing the sociological conditions through which social actors come to experience intersubjective understanding, we will locate the role of consciousness, mind, and knowledge in constructing everyday reality for the social participants. This week, we turn to a phenomenological approach to social knowledge at the commonsensical level, stressing the instructive description of an intersubjective world. *Schutz, Alfred (ed. Helmut R. Wagner) Alfred Schutz on Phenomenology and Social Relations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Selections: p ; : The Life World; Cognitive Setting of the Life-World; Distribution of Knowledge; Transcendencies and Multiple Realities Schutz, Alfred The Phenomenology of the Social World, translated by George Walsh and Frederick Lehnert. Northwestern University Press. Selection: Chapter 3, Foundations of a Theory of Intersubjective Understanding (pp ). *Berger, Peter and Thomas Luckmann The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Anchor. Selections: Pick the pages you like to read from the big pdf files (3 parts with endnotes). Harbermas, Jürgen. The Phenomenological Constitutive Theory of Society: The Fundamental Role of Claims to Validity and the Monadological Foundation of Intersubjectivity. Pp in On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction. MIT Press. *Mannheim, Karl. [1929] Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge. San Diego: Harcourt. Selection: Chapter 2 Ideology and Utopia (pp ). *Mannheim, Karl. [1921/22]1953. On the Interpretation of Weltanschauung. Pp in Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Oxford University Press. Geertz, Clifford Common Sense as a Cultural System. The Antioch Review 33(1):

3 Week 3: Totem, Body, Boundaries *Durkheim, Emile. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. New York: Free Press. Selections: Book II: The Elementary Belief (pp ). *Lévi-Strauss, Claude The Savage Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Selections: Chapter 6 Universalization and Particularization ; Chapter 8 Time Regained ; Chapter 9 History and Dialectic. And if you still have time, Chapter 2 The Logic of Totemic Classifications. *Douglas, Mary Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Selections: Introduction ; Chapter 6 Powers and Dangers ; Chapter7 External Boundaries ; Chapter 8 Internal Lines. Luckmann, Thomas On the Boundaries of the Social World Pp in Life World and Social Realities. London: Heinemann Educational Books. *Bourdieu, Pierre Bodily Knowledge." Pp in Pascalian Meditations. Stanford University Press. *Latour, Bruno On Interobjectivity. Mind, culture & Activity 3(4): Jackson, Michael Knowledge of the Body. Man 18(2): Martin, John Levi What Do Animals Do All Days? The Division of Labor, Class Bodies, and Totemic Thinking in the Popular Imagination. Poetics 27: Nippert-Eng, Christena Boundary Play. Space and Culture 8 (3): [Optional] Rawls, Anne Warfield Epistemology and Practice: Durkheim s The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Selection: Chapter 4 Totemism and the Problem of Individualism (pp ). [Optional] Geertz, Clifford The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Pp in The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books. 3

4 Week 4: Science *Fleck, Ludwik. [1935] Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. University of Chicago Press. Selection: TBA. Popper, Karl. [1952]1998. Science: Conjectures and Refutation. Pp in Introduction Readings in the Philosophy of Science, edited by Klemke et. al. Amherst, NY: Prometheus. Merton, Robert. [1959] Priorities in Scientific Discovery Pp in The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigation. University of Chicago Press. * Kuhn, Thomas S [1996]. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago. Selections: TBA. *Lakatos, Imre The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes. Cambridge University Press. Selection: Stinchcombe, Arthur Formalizing Epistemological Stratification of Knowledge. Pp in When Formality Works: Authority and Abstraction in Law and Organizations. University of Chicago Press. Merton, Robert. [1968] The Matthew Effect in Science pp in The Sociology of Knowledge: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. University of Chicago Press. Shwed, Uri and Peter S. Bearman The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation. American Sociological Review 75: [Optional] Foucault, Michel. [1969]1972. The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language. New York: Vintage Books. Selection: pp ; Part II The Discursive Regularities (The Unities of Discourse; The Formation of Objects; The Formation of Enunicative Modalities; The Formation of Concepts; The Formation of Strategies.) + pp Science and Knowledge. [Optional] Elias, Nobert. [1974]2009 The Sciences: Towards a Theory. Pp in Essay I: On the Sociology of Knowledge and the Sciences, edited by Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. Originally published Pp in Social Processes of Scientific Development, edited by Richard Whitley. London: Routledge. [Optional] Dear, Peter Discipline and Experience: The Mathematic Way in the Scientific Revolution. University of Chicago Press. [Optional] Crane, Diana Invisible Colleges: Diffusion of Knowledge in Scientific Communities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Selections: Glenn will investigate? 4

5 Week 5: Knowledge, Power *Lukács, Georg [1923]. Class consciousness. Pp in History and Class Consciousness. MIT Press. *Foucault, Michel. [1973]1994. Truth and Juridical Forms. Pp in Power, edited by James D. Faubion. Essential Works of Foucault: , vol. 3. New York: The New Press. *Foucault, Michel. [1982]1994. The Subject and Power. Pp in Power, edited by James D. Faubion. Essential Works of Foucault: , vol. 3. New York: The New Press. *Foucault, Michel Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, , edited by Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon. Selection: pp Two Lectures. *Althusser, Louis. On Ideology. Selection: pp London: Verso. Agamben, Giorgio. [2006]2009. What is an Apparatus? Pp in What is an Apparatus? And Other Essays. Stanford University Press. Agamben, Giorgio What is a Paradigm? in The Signature of All Things: On Method. Zone Books. Week 6: Social Locations and Knowledge Bulter, Judith. [2000]2004. What is Critique? An Essay on Foucault s Virtue. Pp in The Judith Butler Reader, edited by Sara Salih. Blackbwell. Collins, Patricia Hill Bulter, Judith. [1990]2004. The Force of Fantasy: Feminism, Mapplethorpe, and Discursive Excess. Pp in The Judith Butler Reader, edited by Sara Salih. Blackbwell. *Collins, Patricia Hill Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought. Social Problems 33(6): *Smith, Dorothy Telling the Truth After Postmodernism. Symbolic Interaction 19: Smith, Dorothy K is mentally Ill: the Anatomy of a Factual Account. Sociology 12: *Haraway, Donna Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies 14(3):

6 Tapper, Melbourne Interrogating Bodies: Medico-Racial Knowledge, Politics, and the Study of a Disease. Comparative Studies in Society and History 37: [Optional] Lunbeck, Elizabeth The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America. Princeton University Press. [Optional] Haraway, Donna Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature of the World of Modern Science. Routledge. Week 7: Values, Truth, Validity Harbermas, Objectification Objectification, Reification, Classification, Valuation, Ideology Simmel, Georg. [1900] Value and Money in The Philosophy of Money. London: Routledge. *Lukacs, Georg The Phenomenon of Reification. Pp & The Standpoint of the Proletariat Pp in History and Class Consciousness. MIT Press. *Bourdieu P Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste. Transl. R Nice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press. Selections: Chapter 6 Cultural Goodwill and Conclusion. *Douglas, Mary Institutions Do the Classifying. Pp in How Institutions Think. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. *Hacking, Ian World-Making and Kind-Making: Child Abuse Example. Pp in The Social Construction of What? Harvard University Press. Aspers, Patrik Knowledge and Valuation in Markets. Theory and Society 38: [Optional] Starr, Paul Social Categories and Claims in the Liberal State. Social Research 59 (2): [OPtional] Abbott, Andrew Things of Boundaries. Social Research 62: [Optional] Sauder, Michael and Wendy Espeland The Discipline of Rankings: Tight Coupling and Organizational Change, American Sociological Review, 74 (1): 63-82, Week 8: State and Knowledge 6

7 *Scott, James Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Harvard University Press. Selection, Chapter 1 Nature and Space ; Chapter 5, The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis. Chapter 9 Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Mētis. Mitchell, Timothy Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. University of California Press. Introduction + Chapter 3 The Character of Calculability + Chapter 4 The Invention and Reinvention of the Peasant. *Stoler, Ann Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance. Archival Science 2: *Agamben, Giorgio State of Exception. Selection: Chapter 1 The State of Exception as a Paradigm of Government. Chapter 2. Force-of-Law. Chicago University Press. Mukerji, Chandra Jurisdiction, Inscription, and State Formation: Administrative Modernism and Knowledge Regimes. Theory & Society 40: On Epistemic Communities and International Policy, select one or two articles to read from International Organization, vol. 46 (1) Downloadable from JSTOR. Dear, Peter Mysteries of States, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, Knowledge and Expertise in the Seventeenth Century. in States of Knowledge: The Co-production of Science and Social Order, edited by Sheila Jasanoff. Routledge. [Optional] Rueschemeyer, D. and Theda Skocpol (eds.) States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies. Princeton University Press. [Optional] Anderson B. 1983/1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso. Selections: Chapter 1 Introduction, 3 The Origins of National Consciousness. Chapter 11 Memory and Forgetting. Week 9: Tacit and Distributive Knowledge *Polanyi, Michael Tacit Knowing Pp in The Tacit Dimension. University of Chicago Press. Polanyi, Michael Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-critical Philosophy. Routlede. Selection: Commitment. Collins, H. M The TEA Set: Tacit Knowledge and Scientific Networks. Science Studies 4:

8 *Collins, H. M Tacit and Explicit Knowledge. University of Chicago Press. Selection: Chapter 3 Explicable Explicit Knowledge + Chapter 4 Relational Tacit Knowledge. Carley, Kathleen Knowledge Acquisition as a Social Phenomenon. Instructional Science 14: *Hutchins, Edwin Cognition in the Wild. MIT Press Selection: Chapter 1 Welcome Abroad, 4 The Organization of Team Performance, 7 Learning in Context,8 Organizational Learning. Week 10: Science in Action *Latour, Bruno and Steve Woolgar Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton University Press. Selection: Chapter 2 An Anthropologist visits the Laboratory. Chapter 4 The Microprocessing of Facts. Chapter 6 The Creation of Order out of Disorder. *Callon, Michael. Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallop and the Fisherman of St. Brieuc Bay. *Latour, Bruno Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Selections: ask King for suggestions. Knorr Certina, Karin Objectual Practice Pp in The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, edited by Schatzki, Knorr Certina and von Savigny. Routledge. *Knorr-Cetina, Karin Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Selections: Alex will investigate. [Optional] Shapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life. Princeton University Press. Selections: pp Pickering, Andrew The Hunting of the Quarks ISIS 72 (2): [Optional] Rainbow, P French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory. University of Chicago Press. Week 11: Knowledge Dynamics, Politics, and Conflicts [This week we can also read back some of things left from Week 5 and Week 8) Habermas 8

9 Mannheim, Karl [1929]. Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge. San Diego: Harcourt, The Nature of Political Knowledge pp Anderson, W The Reasoning of the Strongest: The Polemics of Skills and Science in Medical Diagnosis. Social Studies of Science 22: Epstein, Steven Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge. University of California Press. Selection: ; *Collins, Randall The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Edmond, G Legal Engineering: Contested Representations of Law, Science (and Nonscience) and Society. Social Studies of Science 32: Callon, Michael. The Increasing Involvement of Concerned Groups in R&D Policies: What Lessons for Public Powers? in Science and Innovation: Rethinking the Rationale for Funding and Governance, edited by Geuna et al. Week 12: End of Knowledge [This is Optional We could leave this open and split up a dense week. Or replace this with Alternative Topics] Imagination; Ignorance; Error Carruthers, Bruce Knowledge and Liquidity: Institutional and Cognitive Foundations of the Subprime Crisis, Research in the Sociology of Organizations 30A: *MacKenzie, Donald The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge. American Journal of Sociology 116 (6): *Downer, John Cabriolet : the Limits of Knowledge and the Sociology of Inevitable Failure. American Journal of Sociology 117: Clarke, Lee Mission Improbable: Using Fantasy Document to Tame Disaster. University of Chicago Press. Chapter 2 Fantasy Documents Chapter 5 Authority and Audience in Accepting Risk. *Perrow, Charles Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. Princeton University Press. Selection: TBA. [Optional] Vaughan, Diane The Challenger Launch Decision: Risk Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA. University of Chicago Press. Selection: Chapter 3. *Jasanoff, Sheila Research Subponeas and the Sociology of Knowledge. Law and Contemporary Problems 59(3):

10 Collins, H. M Public Experiments and Displays of Virtuosity: The Core-set Revisited. Social Studies of Science 18: Alternative Topic 1: Doing Sociology Bourdieu, Pierre. [1997]2000. The Three Forms of Scholastic Fallacy pp in Pascalian Meditations. Stanford University Press. *Bourdieu P. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Stanford University Press. Selection: Chapter 1. *Martin, John L The Explanation of Social Action. London: Oxford University Press. Selections: Chapter 6 to 9. Reed, Isaac Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in Human Science. University of Chicago Press. Selection: Chapter 1, 4,5. *Ragin, Charles C. and Howard S. Becker (eds.) What is a Case: Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry. Cambridge University Press. Selection: Chapter 2 (Abbott), Chapter 3 (White), Chapter 4 (Lieberson), Chapter 9 (Becker). Latour, Bruno The Politics of Explanation: An Alternative. Pp in Knowledge and Reflexivity: New Frontiers in the Sociology of Knowledge, edited by S. Woolgar. Sage. Collins, H. M. and S. Yearley Epistemological Chicken in Science as Practice and Culture, edited by A. Pickering. University of Chicago Press. Alternative Topic 2: Time Braudel, Fernand Divisions of Space and Time in Europe The Perspective of the World. Berkeley: University of California Press. Mead, George H Philosophy of the Present. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Selections:??? Halbwachs, Maurice On Collective Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Selections:??? Sewell, William. H Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Selections:??? Pickering Beyond Constraint: The Temporality of Practice and the Historicity of 10

11 Knowledge. in Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics, edited by Jed Buchwald. University of Chicago Press. 11