"Mind in Action" explores recent developments in the sociology of knowledge, and highlights the shift away from traditional - particularly Cartesian - conceptions of person, mind and social behaviour. The author argues that a new "epistemic" sociology has emerged in which the central focus is the social construction of the intelligibility of phenomena, in everyday practical affairs as well as within the conduct of scientific inquiry. This approach is documented with lucid examples, and is shown to make possible a radical re-thinking of the "cognising subject."
- ISBN13 9781573924818
- Publish Date 1 June 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 August 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Prometheus Books
- Imprint Humanity Books
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 168
- Language English