Sociologists generate idology instead of knowledge - particularly where women are concerned. By starting with the theoretical formulations their discipline and then interpreting people's activities as expressions those ideas, sociologists both participate in perpetuate society's traditional power relations.So argues Dorothy E. Smith this provocative study her own its relationship to women's lives.While acknowledging that social science is ideological, for affects methods inquiry transforms...

Drawing on the Marxist, French structuralist and American pragmatist traditions, this is a lively accessible introduction to sociology of knowledge.

This study investigates the effects of presence or absence father in home two samples New York City families: a sample 1000 Welfare AFDC families and subsample lower-middle income from random cross-section sample. The natural fathers, surrogate fathers absent were examined for mothers their children, respectively. variables included measures derived mothers' interviews: 18 child behavior factors 13 familial factors. results indicate that children revealed significantly more behavioral...

Throughout its history, “ideology” (the concept and theory) served as social science's foil, an opposing standard against which it defined own knowledge-as-truth. As science since mid-century has undergone changes in idea of itself methods inquiry, the theory ideology register, visably recording these changes. Works by structuralists poststructuralists, especially Althusser Foucault, forced upon theorists a profound rethinking power operations moved away from false consciousness towards view...

The concept of ‘audience’ is central to research and practice in science communication. When asked by a scientist for help communicating their work, who among us has not responded with the time honoured question ‘who your audience?’ Yet what we mean when talk about audience always clear: implied ambiguous, rather than explicit precise. This article explores this ambiguity, drawing on systematic review 1360 communication articles survey 45 educators. We report 10 different conceptualisations,...

The problem of “culture” in the process intercultural understanding is one most discussed issues among scholars today. Anthropologists, linguists, literary critics, and philosophers, just to name a few, study this issue problem-based research format. Culture cultural are hereby presented by demonstrating studies observations two anthropologists, R. H. Robbins Clifford Geertz, critic, Lionel Trilling, C. S. Lewis, famous writer both fiction non-fiction. My intention here answer question: how...