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  2. History of knowledge - Wikipedia

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    Within academia, the history of knowledge is the field covering the accumulated and known human knowledge constructed or discovered during human history and its historic forms, focus, accumulation, bearers, [1] impacts, mediations, distribution, applications, societal contexts, conditions [2] and methods of production.

  3. The Use of Knowledge in Society - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Sociology of knowledge - Wikipedia

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    In other words, human history is a construct that creates a critical epistemological distinction between the natural and social worlds, a central concept in the social sciences. Primarily focused on historical methodology, Vico asserts that it is necessary to move beyond a chronicle of events to study a society's history. He examined society's ...

  5. Social Epistemology (journal) - Wikipedia

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    Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy is a ranked, bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal. It was established in 1987 and is published by Routledge in collaboration with the Society for Social Studies of Science and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. It provides a forum for ...

  6. Knowledge and Human Interests - Wikipedia

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    Knowledge and Human Interests received positive reviews from Fred E. Jandt in the Journal of Applied Communication Research, [8] Thomas B. Farrell in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, [9] and the sociologist Anthony Giddens in the American Journal of Sociology, [10] a mixed review from the sociologist Steven Lukes in the British Journal of ...

  7. Academic journal - Wikipedia

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    Content usually takes the form of articles presenting original research, review articles, or book reviews.The purpose of an academic journal, according to Henry Oldenburg (the first editor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society), is to give researchers a venue to "impart their knowledge to one another, and contribute what they can to the Grand design of improving natural knowledge ...

  8. Historical sociology - Wikipedia

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    "The problem of agency is the problem of finding a way to account for human experience which recognises simultaneously and in equal measure that history and society are made by constant and more or less purposeful individual action and that individual action, however purposeful, is made by history and society".

  9. Norbert Elias - Wikipedia

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    14 Essays I: On the Sociology of Knowledge and the ... a process-sociological essay", Theory, Culture & Society, 4 ... a process-sociological study: the example of ...