SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Constructionism, Max Scheler, Social Fact

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 226
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

The sociology of knowledge as the social construction of reality. German philosopher in the 1920s this colours the reception of the sociology of knowledge within sociology per se three main sources: from marx social existence determines consciousness the base and superstructure model understood in its full complexity. [h]uman thought is founded in human activity (labour in the widest sense of the word) and in the social relations brought about by that activity (p. 6) three main sources: from. Nietzschethought as an instrument in the struggle for survival and power. Deception, self-deception and illusion as central to life the art of mistrust from historicismthe relativity of ideas the situational determination of ideas the sociology of knowledge must concern itself with everything that passes for knowledge in society. (pp. The sociology of knowledge has to do with more than theoretical knowledge it focuses on everyday knowledge and how that is shaped by and shapes daily life from.