Knowledge, Communication and Society
About the Book Series
Knowledge, Communication, and Society: Contributions to the New Sociology of Knowledge seeks to revive the academic collaboration and debates between European and Anglo-Saxon currents of thought in the social sciences that characterised the middle of the last century, and provide a forum for the development of a new sociology of knowledge. A space for transatlantic discussion, it includes original works and translations of central works by contemporary European social scientists and is committed to an empirically grounded programme of developing social theory.
Communicative Constructivism and the Empirical Study of Social Reality: Contributions to a New Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Hubert Knoblauch, David Joshua Schröder, Lynn Sibert, Frederike Brandt
February 26, 2026
This book presents a new range of theoretical and empirical studies dedicated to Communicative Constructivism, a new approach in social theory developed from within the Sociology of Knowledge. Based on Social Constructivism and emerging from German-speaking social sciences, Communicative ...
Video-Analysis and Knowledge on Rewind: Contributions to Social Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Ajit Singh, Christian Meier zu Verl, René Tuma
August 01, 2025
This volume applies interpretive video‑analysis to explore the intersections between the sociology of knowledge and interaction studies. Presenting a series of studies that draw on video‑analytic and videographic approaches to research, it examines the way video data can shed light on connections ...
The New Art of Old Public Science Communication: The Science Slam
1st Edition
By Miira B. Hill
September 25, 2023
This book investigates the phenomenon of science communication events, as spectacles for legitimising and communicating science to the public. With attention to events such as ‘Science Slam’, where scientists are asked to present their knowledge in new ways and speak to an audience of laymen, the ...
The Invisible Religion: The Problem of Religion in Modern Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Tom Kaden, Thomas Luckmann, Bernt Schnettler
December 27, 2022
The Invisible Religion is a modern classic of social science. Its influence goes well beyond sociology as it continues to inspire research in such diverse fields as sociology of knowledge, ethnology, theology, sociology of religion, and religious studies. In this volume, the author endeavours to ...
The Communicative Construction of Reality
1st Edition
By Hubert Knoblauch
June 30, 2021
This volume advocates a shift from the social constructivism found in the work of Thomas Luckmann and Peter Berger, to a communicative constructivism that acknowledges communication as an embodied form of action in its own right, according to which social actors, in engaging in communicative action...
Erving Goffman: From the Perspective of the New Sociology of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Jürgen Raab
June 30, 2020
While Erving Goffman’s books are among the most widely read sociological works, covering issues including the presentation of the self, total institutions, interaction order to frame analysis, they are in fact guided by a single theme: the analysis of the form of interaction in social situations ...
Social Constructivism as Paradigm?: The Legacy of The Social Construction of Reality
1st Edition
Edited
By Michaela Pfadenhauer, Hubert Knoblauch
June 30, 2020
Social constructivism is one of the most prominent theoretical approaches in the social sciences. This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first formulation in Peter Berger and Luckmann’s classic foundational text, The Social Construction of Reality. Addressing the work’s contribution to ...