The Sociology of Knowledge as Postphilosophical Epistemology: Out of IR’s “Socially Constructed” Idealism

Hamati-Ataya, Inanna

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“…They have simply expanded this requirement to the knowing subject herself. By doing so, they have incorporated the sociology of knowledge as a core, integral part of social-scientific research, thereby challenging the distinction between first- and second-order knowledge that enables philosophy/epistemology to still claim a ‘foundational’ and ‘arbitrating’ position vis-a-vis sociology and hence deny sociologists their potential and actual philosophical autonomy (Hamati-Ataya, 2017).…”

Section: ‘Strong Reflexivity’: Knowledge As Situated Purposeful Praxismentioning

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The ‘vocation’ redux: A post-Weberian perspective from the sociology of knowledge

Hamati-Ataya

2018

Current Sociology

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This paper engages the Weberian view on the scholarly vocation from a perspective informed by 'strong reflexivity'. The reflexivist perspective is grounded in a sociological understanding of knowledge that calls for a coherent reformulation of the relation between the social nature and social function of science, and of the cognitive and axiological posture of scholarship understood as socio-political praxis. Drawing on the sociology of knowledge, the paper argues that Weber's perspective is untenable conceptually and practically. Strong reflexivity, here illustrated through Standpoint Feminism and Bourdieusian sociology, permits a coherent delineation of the problem of the scholarly vocation, in a way that reconciles the social origins, efficacy, and responsibility of science, and hence allows for a more realist reformulation of the cognitive, social, and moral dilemmas we face as scholars, educators, and citizens.

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Section: ‘Strong Reflexivity’: Knowledge As Situated Purposeful Praxismentioning

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The ‘vocation’ redux: A post-Weberian perspective from the sociology of knowledge

Hamati-Ataya

2018

Current Sociology

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“…We never stop learning from our students and ought always to be ready to reflect on how we practise our craft (cf. Hamati-Ataya 2018). This article focuses on the collective influence of new generations of students, in order to make the above point most emphatically (though academic contributions by former students will be highlighted towards the end).…”

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Moving to new generational beats: Lived experiences of capitalism, student-led (re)makings of knowledge, and the evolution of critical research agendas

Bruff

2021

Capital & Class

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Via a reflection on the evolution of a module on comparing capitalisms that I have been teaching for more than a decade, this article discusses the collective influence of new generations of students on how knowledge is (re)made. I deploy a conjunctural understanding of the term ‘generations’ in order to make sense of how students’ interpretations of the topics covered by the module have, across the 2010s, led me to increasingly question the field that was, in an earlier conjuncture, essential for my intellectual foundation and development. Their lived experiences of capitalism are more likely to be dominated by themes such as political, economic and social crises and conflicts, inequality, personal indebtedness and precarity, and in some cases activism. This has had profound and long-lasting effects on my teaching and research, discomfiting me in an ultimately beneficial way; most notably, through the recognition that future critical work on comparing capitalisms ought to move away from previous attempts to engage immanently with dominant, mainstream approaches and towards the articulation of a more confident, autonomous position. Hence, a key aspect of the development and evolution of critical research agendas occurs in and through educational exchanges in the seminar room.

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“…Attending to “local scientific cultures” and institutional divisions of labor across the social sciences has been a longstanding interest of researchers concerned with the sociology of knowledge (Babb 2004; Berman 2014; Camic et al. 2012; Fourcade‐Gourinchas 2009; Fourcade‐Gourinchas and Babb 2002; Hamati‐Ataya 2018; MacKenzie 2011; Schweber 2006), science and technology studies (Barnes, Bloor, and Henry 1996; Jasanoff 2006; Knorr Cetina 1999), and social epistemology (Fuller 2010). Work in the new political sociology of science demonstrates “the ways in which institutions and networks shape the power to produce knowledge and the dynamics of resistance and accommodation that follow” (Frickel and Moore 2006, p. 5).…”

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Comparing disciplinary engagement in global health research across the social sciences

Harris

Shaffer

2022

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives: What did social science disciplines contribute to the study of global health before the coronavirus pandemic? This article compares the contributions of four major social science disciplines-anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology-to the study of global health. Methods: We assessed disciplinary contributions through analysis of Web of Science; disciplinary annual reviews; and each discipline's top two general focus journals, complemented by literature reviews. Results: Of the four disciplines, anthropology and economics have contributed relatively more in quantitative terms, although qualitative contributions have been refracted through the larger histories, methods, and theoretical concerns. Although interest in global health research has grown across the disciplines, only in anthropology has it achieved a measure of prominence in top journals. Conclusion: Cross-disciplinary comparison draws out how each discipline approaches global health; which topics it studies; and the topic's centrality/marginality within the broader disciplines.

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The Sociology of Knowledge as Postphilosophical Epistemology: Out of IR’s “Socially Constructed” Idealism

Cited by 13 publications

References 58 publications

The ‘vocation’ redux: A post-Weberian perspective from the sociology of knowledge

The ‘vocation’ redux: A post-Weberian perspective from the sociology of knowledge

Moving to new generational beats: Lived experiences of capitalism, student-led (re)makings of knowledge, and the evolution of critical research agendas

Comparing disciplinary engagement in global health research across the social sciences

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