No such thing as sociological excuses? Performativity, rationality and social scientific expertise in late liberalism
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DOI: 10.1177/13684310211018939
Abstract: This article examines a frequent assumption of sociological accounts of knowledge: the idea that knowledge acts. The performativity of knowledge claims is here analysed through the prism of ‘sociological excuses’: the idea that sociological explanations… read more here.
Keywords: sociological excuses; thing sociological; performativity; late liberalism ... See more keywords