Towards the Sociology of Truth / Edition 1

by Rob Moore

Overview

This innovative monograph is concerned with a set of inter-related problems associated with the nature of knowledge, how it is produced within intellectual fields and the implications of those things for education and the transmission of knowledge in the classroom.

It covers issues in the sociology of knowledge, the educational system and policy, social differences in educational attainment, educational research and teaching. At various points it critically engages with the ideas of major thinkers such as Durkheim, Bernstein and Bourdieu and others and draws on contributions representing an emerging new approach in the sociology of education associated with recent work by John Beck, Karl Maton, Johan Muller, Michael F.D. Young and others.

This provocative and challenging book will undoubtedly stimulate debate among educationists across the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847062284
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/01/2009
Series:	Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Rob Moore is Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education in the Faculty of Education, Fellow of Homerton College, and College Reader in Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction
Being Sociological about Knowledge: Setting the Agenda Chapter 1
Knowledge, culture(s) and Culture Chapter 2
Schismatism, the Pursuit of Difference and the Tradition of the New Chapter 3
The Arbitrary and the Absolute Chapter 4
New Times Chapter 5
Getting Real - in media res
 
Conclusion
Bibliography