Sociology of knowledge

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thumb|300px|"Evening Party" by Vladimir Makovsky (1897). Three generations of Russian intelligentsia discuss current issues. The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers. Conceptually, the intelligentsia status class arose in the late 18th century, during the Partitions of Poland (1772–1795). Etymologically,

Hungarian-German philosopher and sociologist (1893-1947)

type of political culture

Folksonomy is a classification system in which end users apply public tags to online items, typically to make those items easier for themselves or others to find later. Over time, this can give rise to a classification system based on those tags and how often they are applied or searched for, in contrast to a taxonomic classification designed by the owners of the content and specified when it is published. This practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging. Folksonomy was originally "the result of personal free tagging of informatio

shared pool of memories, knowledge and information of a social group that is significantly associated with the group's identity

theory within social science

study of the relationship between human thought and the social context within which it arises, and of the effects prevailing ideas have on societies

theory that shared understandings of the world create shared assumptions about reality

social formation in which individual and collective knowledge and its organization are increasingly becoming the basis of social, economic and media coexistence

place, object or concept vested with historical significance in the popular collective memory, such as monuments, museums, events, symbols and even colours vested with historical memory

statement widely known to be true

Enactivism is a position in cognitive science that argues that cognition arises through interaction between an acting organism and its environment. It claims that the environment of an organism is brought about, or enacted, by the active exercise of that organism's sensorimotor processes. "The key point, then, is that the species brings forth and specifies its own domain of problems ...this domain does not exist "out there" in an environment that acts as a landing pad for organisms that somehow drop or parachute into the world. Instead, living beings and their environments stand in relation to

fictional Chinese taxonomy mentioned by Jorge Luis Borges

Concept in the philosophy of literature

branch of sociology

the extent to which the Holocaust was known contemporaneously

course of study or major at an academic institution, or the field in which a specialist practices

deliberate misrepresentation of knowledge

empirical research method

American historian