The Structures of Knowledge and the Future of the Social Sciences: Two Postulates, Two Propositions and a Closing Remark

Authors

  • Richard E. Lee Binghamton University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2000.201

Abstract

From the beginning of the long sixteenth century, the practices of knowledge production took the form of a complex of processes which produced over time an intellectual and institutional hierarchy within which authoritative knowledge was progressively defined as the ?other? of societal/ moral values. These processes of knowledge formation, in articulation with those sets of processes associated with the ?economic? and ?political? spheres, account for the dominant relational setting ?disciplining? human cognition, and thus the ?cultural? parameters of action. This long-term pattern of the modern world-system we shall call the structures of knowledge.

Downloads

Published

2000-11-26

How to Cite

Lee, R. E. (2000). The Structures of Knowledge and the Future of the Social Sciences: Two Postulates, Two Propositions and a Closing Remark. Journal of World-Systems Research, 6(3), 786–796. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2000.201

Issue

Section

Structures of Knowledge