SOCY 284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ann Swidler, Tacit Knowledge, Episteme

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 284
• Professor: Dr.Norma Möllers

Document Summary

Specific configurations of knowledge"s , artifacts, categories, norms, values, practices, rituals, symbols, worldviews, ideas, ideologies, ad discourses. Culture as toolkit ann swidler technology and culture. If culture provides ppl with resosurces to make meaning, but also constrain the ways in which ppl can mae sense of social life then. Episteme, discourses (foucault: historically specifc formations of knowledge. Theoretical knowledge: knowing what ie scientific theories. Everyday stocks of knowledge (berger and luckman: -- > common sense. Tacit knowledge (cf. harry colons : knowing how ex. riding a bicycle. Artificial intelligence provocative (al) for social scientists, because al engineers , too, analyze and construct social life. Knowledge base al machines narrow and brittle. How does the al community understand knowledge (definition of knowledge) Considerable amount of social knowledge is tacit knowledge which cannot be formalized. If humans can never completely formalize and express what they know, machines will inherit that incompleteness forsythes clai. Narrow view of knowledge apart of engineering culture.