Towards the Sociology of Truth

Rob Moore is Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education in the Faculty of Education, Fellow of Homerton College, and College Reader in Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Being Sociological about Knowledge: Setting the Agenda; Chapter 1: Knowledge, culture(s) and Culture; Chapter 2: Schismatism, the Pursuit of Difference and the Tradition of the New; Chapter 3: The Arbitrary and the Absolute; Chapter 4: New Times; Chapter 5: Getting Real - in media res; Conclusion; Bibliography.

'Towards the Sociology of Truth should be read by every sociologist of education. It is an argument for a social realist account of knowledge, an attempt to wrestle with and reconcile some of the deep fissures in sociological thinking, and a reclamation of all that is best in the discipline through an analytical history of its intellectual antecedants. This book will prove a challenge to many in the discipline and, because it cannot be ignored, will be indispensable to debates about the nature of sociology of education and the claims to knowledge that it makes.' Hugh Lauder, Professor of Education and Political Economy, University of Bath, UK