The social frameworks of knowledge. Translated from the French by Margaret A. Thompson and Kenneth A. Thompson, with an introductory essay by Kenneth A. Thompson
Published by New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row / A Torchbook Library Edition, 1971
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very good dust-jacket, cover price $7.50, very good blue cloth, attractive copy. GURVITCH, GEORGES. The social frameworks of knowledge. Translated from the French by Margaret A. Thompson and Kenneth A. Thompson, with an introductory essay by Kenneth A. Thompson. New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row / A Torchbook Library Edition, 1971, xxxviii, 292pp., . Series: Explorations in interpretative sociology - Translation of Les cadres sociaux de la connaissance. - Hardcover: First Torchbook Library Edition, 1971. - Based on lectures given at the Sorbonne in 1964-65. - CONTENTS: Introductory Essay by Kenneth A. Thompson - Preface - INTRODUCTION: The Problem - Definition of the Sociology of Knowledge - Sociology of Knowledge and epistemology - Types and fomrs of knowledge - PART ONE: MICROSOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE: Preliminary Considerations - Masses as social frameworks of knowledge - Communities as social frameworks of knowledge - Communions as social frameworks of knowledge - PART TWO: PARTICULAR GROUPS AS SOCIAL FRAMEWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE: Preliminary Considerations - Groups distinguished by their mode of access and knowledge - Families and knowledge - Small-scale local groups and their knowledge - Factories and knowledge - States and their cognitive systems -- Churches and their cognitive systems - PART THREE: SOCIAL CLASSES AND THEIR COGNITIVE SYSTEMS: Prelminary Remarks -The peasant class and its cognitive system - The bourgeois class and its cognitive system - The proletarian class and its cognitive system - The quasi-class of techno-bureaucrats and its cognitive system - PART FOUR: TYPES OF GLOBAL SOCIETIES AND THEIR COGNITIVE SYSTEMS - Preliminary Remarks - Ethnology and approaches to philosophical anthropology - Archaic societies and their cognitive systems - Theocratico-charismatic societies and their cognitive systems - Patriarchal societies and their cognitive systems - City-states in the process of becoming empires, and their cognitive systems - Feudal societies and their cognitive systems - The cognitive system of nascent capitalistic global societies - The cognitive system of democratic-liberal societies - Knowledge corresponding to the managerial society of organized capitalism - The knowledge of fascist techno-bureaucratic society - The cognitive system of centralized state collectivism - The cognitive system of decentralized, pluralist collectivism - SUPPLEMENT: Sociological inquiry into knowledge of the Other - Appendix 1 - Appendix 2 - Bibliography of the Sociology of Knowledge. 9780061360497 ISBN 006136049X.…
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- The social frameworks of knowledge. Translated from the French by Margaret A. Thompson and Kenneth A. Thompson, with an introductory essay by Kenneth A. Thompson
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- Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965
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- New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row / A Torchbook Library Edition, 1971
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