Disciplinary Knowledge Revisited: The Social Construction of Sociology

Autor/in	Cole, Stephen
Titel	Disciplinary Knowledge Revisited: The Social Construction of Sociology
Quelle	In: American Sociologist, 37 (2006) 2, S.41-56 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0003-1232
DOI	10.1007/s12108-006-1004-x
Schlagwörter	Social Control; Evaluation; Research; Theories; Evidence; Sociology; Intellectual Disciplines; Methods; Epistemology; Constructivism (Learning) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Kontrolle; Evaluierung; Forschung; Theory; Theorie; Evidenz; Soziologie; Geisteswissenschaften; Method; Methode; Erkenntnistheorie
Abstract	In "Making Science" (1992) I make the distinction between two types of knowledge: research frontier knowledge and core knowledge. Core knowledge is the small body of knowledge for which the entire scientific community treats as indisputable facts. The research frontier is all new knowledge which makes claim to being facts but in practice there is no consensus on this knowledge. The two types of knowledge are linked together by the evaluation process. Most frontier knowledge turns out to be insignificant and is ignored. A small part of frontier knowledge is taken as candidates for the core and evaluated. Most of this knowledge turns out to be "wrong." Thus the important data of Jacobs (1989) loses a good deal of its impact because he forces it into a theory which he calls "social control": a theory for which there is no evidence. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10