Book Reviews : Gunter Remmling (ed.), Towards the Sociology of Knowledge: Origin and Devel opment of a Sociological Thought Style. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, pp. xxi, 463, $ 20.50
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Book ReviewsGunter Remmling (ed.), Towards the Sociology of Knowledge: Origin and Devel opment of a Sociological Thought Style. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, pp. xxi, 463, $ 20.50 SAGE Publications, Inc.1974DOI: 10.1177/002071527401500322 A.W. Smith Preston Institute of Technology Preston, Australia The selection of essays and articles edited by Gunter Remmling and published by the International Library of Sociology under the title Towards the S'ociology of Knowledge is a valuable addition to the literature available to students in this field. It could not be otherwise given the calibre and variety of the contributors and the fact that it covers the pertinent works of scholars such as Bacon, Saint-Simon, Marx, Durkheim, Mannheim, Scheler, Cooley, Mead, Berger, Tiryakian, et al. The first half of the book is historical in orientation (Parts 1-7), while Part 8 introduces the reader to the contemporary scene. Part 9, sub-titled Applied Sociology of Knowledge, presents selected case studies intending to demonstrate the practical value of the discipline and culminating in pointing to the problem of "moral intelligibility in the sociology of knowledge". 0 The contents of the book are less coherent than this framework suggests. The title may lead one to expect at least a