Presents an interdisciplinary reference work suitable for students and researchers concerned with the nature of knowledge. This book consists of 42 alphabetically arranged entries on key concepts at the intersection of philosophy and sociology - what used to be called "sociology of knowledge" but is increasingly called "social epistemology".

Introduction Analytic Social Epistemology Common Sense versus Collective Memory Consensus versus Dissent Criticism Disciplinarity versus Interdisciplinarity Epistemic Justice Evolution Expertise Explaining the Cognitive Content of Science Explaining the Normative Structure of Science Feminism Folk Epistemology Free Inquiry Historiography Information Science Knowledge Management Knowledge Policy Knowledge Society Kuhn, Popper and Logical Positivism Mass Media Multiculturalism Naturalism Normativity Philosophy versus Sociology Postmodernism Progress Rationality Relativism versus Constructivism Religion Rhetoric Science and Technology Studies Science as Social Movement Science Wars Social Capital versus Public Good Social Constructivism Social Epistemology Social Science Sociology of Knowledge Translation Truth, Reliability and the Ends of Knowledge Universalism versus Relativism University References Index