CONTENTS:- Preface; Sociologists and Philosophy; Globalization as an Emergent Concept; Structuration Theory as a World -View; Sociology since 1945: Socio-genetic andf psychogenetic aspects; Sociology of Knowledge; The Sociology of Knowledge: Emphasis on an Empirical Attitude. 1943; The Unique and the General: Toward a Philosophy of Sociology 1948; A Preliminary Inquiry into The sociology of knowledge From The Standpoint of the Study of Man 1953, 1950; presuppositions of The sociology of knowledge and a task for it 1967,1971; The Sociology of knowledge and Sociological Theory 1959; Ernst Grunwald and The Scoiological The Sociology of Knowledge; The Sociology of Knowledge in the United States of America 1967; Bibliography;
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Sociology emerged when European people became aware in the late eighteenth century that the patterns that their far flung interdependent social relations made were increasingly exceeding the scope of individual actions on a large scale. In terminology developed by later sociologists for understanding the structure of these developments these interdependencies constituted an emgent level of social organisation sui genesis. Groups of social scientific practitioners proplled ba various int