%0 Journal Article
%T Steps towards a theory of the knowledge
%A Andrea Cerroni
%J Social Science Information
%@ 1461-7412
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0539018418767069
%X During the last decades, knowledge has attracted the greatest attention in a growing number of disciplines, generating a deluge of literature. However, it has yet to become the object of a fully established sociology of knowledge able to fulfil the challenges of present society, often called the knowledge-society. We posit knowledge as a basis on which to model social life, proposing a three-dimensional approach to social reality (i.e., individuals, social aggregates, knowledge). Looking at knowledge as at ¡®a cooperative good¡¯ and a communicative process, we then apply the same three dimensions to knowledge itself as a sociological production, ending up with a typology encompassing three knowledge families (intellectual, practical and objectified) and three ways of access (direct personal knowing, indirect social acquaintance, externally recognised and personally introjected acknowledge). Steps towards a theory of knowledge-society are then proposed
%K Knowledge artefacts
%K knowledge capital
%K knowledge circulation
%K knowledge-society
%K objectified knowledge
%K practical knowledge
%K Artefacts de la connaissance
%K capital de connaissance
%K circulation de la connaissance
%K connaissance objectiv¨¦e
%K soci¨¦t¨¦ de la connaissance
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0539018418767069