Sociology of Ignorance, Ignorance of Sociology
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This book analyzes ignorance as a socially constructed product (agnotology) and the limits of sociology to know the structure and functioning of society. Ignorance is deeply subjective and socially complex. This leads Smithson, M. J. to the referential definition of agnotology, on which the author builds his proposal for a methodology of empirical study of the objects and subjects of ignorance (the ignorance triangle: ignorant, observer and producer).
The Spanish text was published in April 2020 with the main conclusions of a Ph.D. thesis defended on November 29, 2019 at the Department of Applied Sociology, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid.
The text synthesizes and discusses ideas from the work of Proctor (Agnotology. A Missing Term to Describe the Cultural Production of Ignorance) and Smithson (Ignorance and Uncertainty. Emerging Paradigms), as well as other contributions from the fields of philosophy and psychology (Firestein, Ignorance How it drives Science and Rescher, Ignorance. On the Wider Implications of Ignorance).
This text also includes contributions from thinkers such as the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses, History as a System, Man and People), Simmel (The Sociology of Secrecy and Secret Societies), Popper (The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Ideas and Beliefs), Giddens (The Consequences of Modernity), Bauman (Liquid Modernity), Beck (Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity), Berman (All That Is Solid Merges into Air: The Experience of Modernity), and Lyotard (The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge). The illuminating philosophical perspective contained in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation has always been present as a background to this book's agnotological approach to knowledge and ignorance.
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