The sociology of knowledge as a subdiscipline in sociology deals with the social and group origins of ideas. In its brief history as a field of study, it has included the entire ideational realm (knowledge, ideas, theories, and mentalities), in an...

The Objectivity of the Sociological and Social-Political Knowledge, know also as Objectivity of Social Science and Social Policy is a book written by Maximilian Weber, a German economist and sociologist. The original edition was published in German, but...

The standard textbook histories of philosophy write exultantly of the expulsion of 'psychologism' and the subsequent independence of philosophy and logic from mistaken psychologistic interpretations: logical necessity was one thing and psychological necessity quite another. Matters, of course, were not really so simple, and...

Thomas Hibbs is acting department chair of the philosophy department at Boston College. Book Info:CHARACTER AND IDENTITY The Philosophical Foundations of Political and Sociological Perspectives Morton A. Kaplan, ed. Publisher:St. Paul, Minn.: Professors World Peace Academy, 1998 Much of the battle...