%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