rection of publicРopinion; the active function knowledges serve in public life as theyРengender and direct public opinion and action. In Chapters 2 and 5, forРexample, sociology of knowledge is presented as a method for examiningРthe changing and conflicting interpretations of contemporary events, theРshifting realm of what we call social “realities”(the quotation marksРpointing to the relative and elusive status of what in fact is real and forРwhom). Sociology of knowledge examines how objects of public attentionРarise, how social e to be defined and the functions particularРknowledges play in this process. For example, the conflicts of nation-statesРand parties, between church and secular authorities, of rising classes andРsuch interest groups as women and people of color, of medical and
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