Towards the Sociology of Truth

Robert Moore is Lecturer in Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, and Fellow of Homerton College.

• Introduction; Section 1; Chapter 1 Recovering Knowledge; Chapter 2 Making the Break - the problem of schismatism; Chapter 3 Habitus - what is it?; Chapter 4 The Problem of the Arbitrary; Section 2; Chapter 5 The Sociality of Knowledge; Chapter 6 Code and Culture; Chapter 7 The Code and Culture of Knowledge; Conclusion The Sociality of Knowledge and the Sociology of Truth; References.

'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