Geography of Scientific Knowledge: A Proximity Approach [PDF]
The geography of scientific knowledge is defined as the replication process of locally produced knowledge claims. Proximity in social, cognitive, and physical dimensions promotes the sharing of tacit knowledge.
Koen Frenken
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Sociology’s Rhythms: Temporal Dimensions of Knowledge Production [PDF]
From the temporal perspective, this article examines shifts in the productionof sociological knowledge. It identifies two kinds of rhythms of sociology: 1) that of sociological standpoints and techniques of investigation and 2) that of contemporary ...
Vostal, Filip
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To Build a Notion:US State Department Nation Building Expertise and Postwar Settlements in 20th Century East Central Europe [PDF]
This article offers a contribution to the sociology of social science knowledge practices and expertise through the empirical lens of US nation building policies.
Abela A. +44 more
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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Review: Reiner Keller & Michael Meuser (Eds.). Körperwissen [Knowledge of the Body]
Over recent years, the new sociology of knowledge has become increasingly interested in issues and debates about the ways in which the body features in people's actions and experience of the social world—debates that over the past two decades have also ...
Dirk vom Lehn
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50 YEARS OF THE BOOK KNOWLEDGE AND CONTROL: NEW DIRECTION FOR SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION, INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL YOUNG [PDF]
Marcelo Pinheiro Cigales +2 more
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Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
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Knowledge-sociological and information-sociological aspects of knowledge organization
50 years ago knowledge organization, the development of scientific concepts and arrangements, has been seen as a logical and thus universal problem. Older approaches accordingly see areas of knowledge as naturally given and organically grown. At latest with the constructivism has entered a ‘turn’, which sees knowledge organization as a social ...
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Fiction and Social Knowledge: Towards a Strong Program in the Sociology of Literature [PDF]
Jan Váňa
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Considering adoption: Towards a consumption-oriented approach to innovation [PDF]
What are the forces that shape the adoption of innovations? This question has been sidelined in a largely production-centric literature on the economic geography of innovation. Inspired by Weber’s dual concern with procurement and distribution activities
Rekers, Josephine V.
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