(Routledge Advances in Sociology) 1st Edition
by Reiner Keller (Editor), Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Editor), Wolf J Schünemann (Editor)
The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse
(SKAD) has reoriented research into social forms, structuration and
processes of meaning construction and reality formation; doing so by
linking social constructivist and pragmatist approaches with
post-structuralist thinking in order to study discourses and create
epistemological space for analysing processes of world-making in
culturally diverse environments.
SKAD is anchored
in interpretive traditions of inquiry and allows for broadening – and
possibly overcoming – of the epistemological biases and restrictions
still common in theories and approaches of Western- and Northern-centric
social sciences. An innovative volume, this book is exactly attentive
to these empirically based, globally diverse further developments of
approach, with a clear focus on the methodology and its implementation.
Thus, The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse presents
itself as a research program and locates the approach within the context
of interpretive social sciences, followed by eleven chapters on
different cases from around the world that highlight certain theoretical
questions and methodological challenges.
Presenting outstanding applications of the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse
across a wide variety of substantive projects and regional contexts,
this text will appeal to postgraduate students and researchers
interested in fields such as Discourse Studies, Sociology, Cultural
Studies and Qualitative Methodology and Methods.
