The sociology of knowledge predates Said and Foucault by decades.
Evidence
As early as the 1920s, Max Scheler and Karl Mannheim had commenced a major theoretical movement in the sociology of knowledge that radically revised our conception of the modes and modalities of knowledge production. Before them, Wilhelm Jerusalem, who first coined the expression Soziologie des Erkenntniss in a 1909 essay, began a serious examination of the way the epistemic assumption of knowledge production is socially predicated and economically grounded. Both Scheler and Mannheim traced the origin of their sociology of knowledge to Karl Marx’s German Ideology (1845), particularly to the way he had located the ideological presumptions of consciousness. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 486
Categorization
- DEFINE: Establishes the lineage and key figures of the sociology of knowledge movement, including Jerusalem’s 1909 coinage of the term.