An examination of the contexts in which people make different orders of knowledge as a prelude to questioning assumptions about the size of knowledge implied in the contrast between global and local perspectives.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 1995-08-24
Language: English
Number of Pages: 208
Edition: 1
Series: ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..