The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse: Foundations, Concepts and Tools for a Research Programme

Preface to the English Edition
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD)
	1.1 Arguments for a Sociology of Knowledge Based Approach to Discourse Analysis
	1.2 Overview of the Book
	References
Part I: The Development of Sociology of Knowledge
	Presentation of Part I
	References
	Chapter 2: The Social Determination of Knowledge
		2.1 From the Theory of Ideas to the Ideology Critique: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
		2.2 The Rootedness of Knowledge in Social Existence: Karl Mannheim
		2.3 The Social Origins and Functions of Classifications: Émile Durkheim
		References
	Chapter 3: The Social Construction of Knowledge
		3.1 Knowledge as Social Construction: Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
		3.2 A Structuralist-Constructivist Analysis of Knowledge: Pierre Bourdieu
		3.3 Empirical Constructivism: From Ludwik Fleck to Social Studies of Science
		References
	Chapter 4: The Communicational Construction of Knowledge
		4.1 Cultural and Practice Turn: The New Popularity of the Sociology of Knowledge
		4.2 Niklas Luhmann’s System-Theoretical Constructivism
		4.3 The Interpretive Paradigm
			4.3.1 The Communicational Turn in Social Constructivist Sociology of Knowledge
			4.3.2 Public Discourses and the “Definition of the Situation”: Symbolic Interactionism
			4.3.3 Culture, Process and Structure of Public Problems
			4.3.4 The Public Sphere, Inter-discourse Competition, and Frame Analysis
			4.3.5 The Sociology of Knowledge of Social Problems
			4.3.6 Contexts and Cultures of Communication
		References
	Chapter 5: Knowledge Society
		References
	Chapter 6: Sociology of Knowledge: Summary and Perspective
		References
Part II: Discourse: Knowledge and Language in Action
	Presentation of Part II
	References
	Chapter 7: The History of the Discourse Concept
		7.1 Early Conceptual Developments
		7.2 The Career of ‘Discourse’ as a Concept Since the 1950s
			7.2.1 The Influence of French Structuralism
				Ferdinand de Saussure: The System of Language
				Saussure’s Reception within Structuralism
			7.2.2 From Structuralism to Post-structuralism
		7.3 Discourse Research Today
			7.3.1 Discourse Analysis (in the Narrow Sense)
			7.3.2 Large Corpus-Based Discourse Research in Linguistics and History
			7.3.3 Post-structuralist Discourse Theory
			7.3.4 The Conjuncture of Discourse Research
		References
	Chapter 8: The “Planet Foucault”
		8.1 “Erased Like a Face Drawn in Sand at the Edge of the Sea”?
		8.2 The Programme of a “Critical Ontology of Ourselves”
		8.3 Discourse Analysis as Archaeology of Knowledge
		8.4 Discourse Analysis as Part of a Genealogy of Power/Knowledge Regimes
		8.5 “Forget About Foucault”? 
		8.6 Foucaultian Contributions for a Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse
		References
	Chapter 9: Discourse Perspectives in the Wake of Foucault
		9.1 Critical Discourse Research
			9.1.1 Kritische Diskursanalyse (Critical Discourse Analysis)
			9.1.2 Critical Discourse Analysis
		9.2 The Post-Marxist Discourse Theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
		9.3 The Circuit of Culture: The Discourse Concept in Cultural Studies
		9.4 A Short Synopsis of Discourse Research ‘After Foucault’
		References
	Chapter 10: A Preliminary Summary: Perspectives of Discourse Research (So Far)
		References
Part III: Principles of the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse
	Presentation of Part III
	Chapter 11: The Discursive Construction of Reality
		11.1 Reworking Social Constructivist Sociology of Knowledge
		11.2 Incorporating the Discourse Perspective
		11.3 Theoretical Grounds and Research Programme
			11.3.1 Extensions of the Sociology of Knowledge
			11.3.2 The Primacy of Sociology of Knowledge
			11.3.3 Objectives
		References
	Chapter 12: Theoretical Foundations for SKAD Within Sociology of Knowledge
		12.1 Signs, Typification, Universes of Discourse
		12.2 Discursive Micro-Events and Statements
		12.3 Social Actors and Discourses
		12.4 Discourses and Practices
		12.5 Discursive Formations: Special Discourses and Public Discourses
		12.6 Discourses, Events, Problematizations
		12.7 SKAD and the Discursive Mattering of Matter
			12.7.1 New Materialisms?
			12.7.2 Interpretation as Entanglement and Inter-relation
			12.7.3 Materialities in SKAD
		References
	Chapter 13: SKAD’s Interpretive Analytics: Terminology
		13.1 Overview
		13.2 Discourse
		13.3 Analysing Statements: The Interpretive Analytics of Symbolic Ordering
			13.3.1 Interpretive Schemes
			13.3.2 Classifications
			13.3.3 Phenomenal Structure
			13.3.4 Narrative Structures
			13.3.5 Argumentation Clusters
		13.4 Materiality of Discourses and Dispositives
			13.4.1 Actors, Speakers, and Discourse Coalitions
			13.4.2 Practices
			13.4.3 Dispositives: Infrastructures of Discourse Production and Problem-Related Intervention
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	Chapter 14: SKAD-Related Research Questions: A Sketch
		14.1 How Do Discourses Emerge/How Are They Performed?
		14.2 How Are Phenomena Constituted Within Discourses, Discursive Struggles and Controversies?
		14.3 What Are the Materialities and Power Effects of Discourses and Discursive Struggles?
		14.4 Features of Discursive Formations
		14.5 Discourses and Everyday Knowledge
		References
	Chapter 15: SKAD Methodology
		15.1 A Discourse on Discourses: Self-reflexivity and Constructivism
		15.2 Understanding and Explaining
		15.3 Discourse Research is Interpretive Work
		15.4 Adapting Interpretive Methods
		15.5 Approaching Visuals and Visuality
			15.5.1 Visualization as Statement
			15.5.2 Visualization as Object of Discursive Struggles
			15.5.3 Visualization as Structural Feature: Viscourses
			15.5.4 The Challenge of Visualization
		15.6 SKAD Ethnography of Discourses and Dispositives
		References
	Chapter 16: The Power/Knowledge Politics of Discourse
		16.1 A Short Summary
		16.2 SKAD: An Invitation
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