Ordinary Knowledge
Overview
This book argues that it is impossible to reduce knowledge to a conception of science inherited from the nineteenth century. Instead, we must go beyond intellectual conformities based on limited and archaic moral or political foundations. This approach emphasizes the growing importance of information and communication in modern societies. Sociologists have too often succumbed to the "positivist fascination" of analytical formalism and dualistic thinking. Rather than viewing society as a finished product, ordinary knowledge develops an approach which seeks to analyze. in all their nuances and contradictions, the new forms of social life -- particularly everyday life -- which are beginning to emerge in the late twentieth century.
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- ISBN-13: 9780745611181
- ISBN-10: 0745611184
- Publisher: Polity Press
- Publish Date: June 1996
- Dimensions: 9.27 x 6.21 x 0.88 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.98 pounds
- Page Count: 208
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