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The Times called the book "an extraordinary achievement", and "a great read even if civilization does not collapse". [4] The Guardian described the book as a "terrifically engrossing history of science and technology". [5] Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries described the book as "highly readable and engaging". [6]
Regarded as a seminal work, [6] [7] [8] "The Use of Knowledge in Society" was one of the most praised [9] and cited [10] articles of the twentieth century. The article managed to convince market socialists and members of the Cowles Commission (Hayek's intended target) and was positively received by economists Herbert A. Simon, Paul Samuelson, and Robert Solow.
Following the establishment of the history of knowledge, arguments occurred over whether the history of science should be absorbed by the history of knowledge. [13] The history of knowledge's relevancy has coincided with the discussion of the academic term "knowledge society" as reflected in the need for knowledge management since the 1960s. [10]
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, proposes that social groups and individual persons who interact with each other, within a system of social classes, over time create concepts (mental representations) of the actions of each other, and that people become habituated to those concepts, and thus assume ...
It is a history of human thought covering over 5,000 years of philosophy, learning, and belief systems that surveys the key historical trends and breakthroughs connecting the globalizing human landscape of the 20th century all the way back to the scattered roots of human civilization in India, Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Greece, and Rome.
Peter Burke's A Social History of Knowledge: Volume II: From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia is a broad and wide-ranging look at how knowledge has been created, acquired, organized, disseminated, and sometimes lost in the Western world over the last two and a half centuries, a sequel to his 2000 book covering the prior three centuries, A Social ...
The sociology of knowledge requires a particular viewpoint that Giambattista Vico first expounded in his New Science in the early 18th century, long before the first sociologists studied the relationship between knowledge and society. The book, a justification for a new historical and sociological methodology, suggests that the natural and ...
Knowledge and Decisions is a non-fiction book by American economist Thomas Sowell. [1] The book was initially published in 1980 by Basic Books and reissued in 1996. [ 2 ] Sowell analyzes social and economic knowledge and how it is transmitted through society, and how that transmission affects decision making.