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- Title
Relativism Revisited: A Response to Manfred Stanley's Criticism of the Sociology of Knowledge as a Theoretical Basis for an Alternative Pedagogy.
- Authors
Bowers, C. A.
- Abstract
The article presents a response to Professor Manfred Stanley's criticism of the sociology of knowledge as a theoretical basis for an alternative pedagogy. In questioning the moral-philosophic uses of a sociology of knowledge framework, Stanley has touched on a fundamental issue that deserves more careful attention than it has received from sociologists and educational theorists in recent years. As one of the intellectual fashions today is to view the shortcomings of schools and the structural relations of society through the lenses provided by this framework, one should be particularly grateful for Professor Stanley's comments. The Marxist stream of the sociology of knowledge, with its teleological view of history, ignores the problem of relativism that arises in the work of various other scholars. As the author has attempted to use the work of the latter group as a basis for a theory of education, it is particularly important for the author to address this issue. Professor Stanley's concern is also on the relativism of this stream of the sociology of knowledge.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGY of knowledge; STANLEY, Manfred; COMMUNISM; RELATIVITY; THEORY of knowledge; EDUCATION
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1981, Vol 82, Issue 4, p680
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818108200411