The Sociology of Knowledge

Kilzer, Ernest; Ross, Eva J.

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“…Grünwald (1934: 20, 56) posited that Jerusalem’s theory was an ancillary of ‘social psychology’ and not of ‘real sociology’ because it treated knowledge only as it is recognized by individuals and not as a cultural realm in itself. After this treatment, Jerusalem, when mentioned at all, has almost always been treated as a disciple of Durkheim and merely listed along with Durkheim’s other collaborators instead of actually outlining any of his work (for example, Adler, 1955: 6; Aron, 1978: 108; Kilzer and Ross, 1953: 230; Merton, 1937: 502; Remmling, 1973: 36; Stark, 1958: 161), although he is occasionally mentioned as the first to use the term ‘sociology of knowledge.’ H. Otto Dahlke was particularly blunt in this regard when he asserted that ‘[c]ompletely in Durkheim’s camp is Wilhelm Jerusalem’ (1940: 72). All of this essentially reads Jerusalem selectively and backward in that it takes his later acknowledgement of Durkheim and advocacy of a quasi-positivist position to characterize the initial motivations of his sociology of knowledge.…”

Section: Weimar Sociology Of Knowledge Neglect and Rediscoverymentioning

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Wilhelm Jerusalem’s sociology of knowledge in the dialogue of ideas

Huebner

2013

Journal of Classical Sociology

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While recent calls have been made for a ‘dialogical’ approach in the study of classical sociology, little empirical work has taken up this charge. This paper seeks to examine an under-appreciated author, Wilhelm Jerusalem, as a case study in the importance of social dialogue to foundational ideas in sociology. Jerusalem developed the first explicit ‘sociology of knowledge’ in 1909 in response to his encounter with William James’ pragmatism, the burgeoning Viennese sociological movement, and his previous psychological studies. In outlining his theory and its development, the paper traces how Jerusalem’s dialogue at different times with Husserl, Mach, James, Durkheim, Scheler, and others was essential to the direction taken by his work. A focus on these dialogic encounters gives us a new understanding of the relations between strands of thought in the early twentieth century, and the changing structure of these connections also helps to explain the relative neglect of Jerusalem’s unique work. The paper utilizes this examination of Jerusalem’s sociology of knowledge in order to put forward propositions for a dialogical approach to the empirical study of the relations among theoretical traditions in the social sciences.

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Section: Weimar Sociology Of Knowledge Neglect and Rediscoverymentioning

confidence: 99%

Wilhelm Jerusalem’s sociology of knowledge in the dialogue of ideas

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Journal of Classical Sociology

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The Sociology of Knowledge

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