Asc 410: The Sociology Of Knowledge Question Paper
Asc 410: The Sociology Of Knowledge
Course:Bachelor Of Arts
Institution: Kenyatta University question papers
Exam Year:2009
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR
OF ARTS
ASC 410:
THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE
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DATE: MONDAY 21ST DECEMBER 2009
TIME: 11.00 A.M. ? 1.00 P.M.
INSTRUCTIONS
Answer Question ONE and Any Other TWO Questions.
All Questions Carry 23.3 marks, Each.
Q.1
a)
What is ?Sociology of Knowledge??
(3.0 marks)
b)
Outline, the origins of the sociology of knowledge as a
discipline, with reference to Marx, Durkheim, Veblen and Znaniecki.
(12.0
marks)
c)
What implications would you envisage the sub-discipline had for the growth
and development of sociological theorizing?
(8.3 marks)
Q.2
a)
Who
was
Karl
Mannheim?
(3.0
marks)
b)
Comment on Mannheim?s views on ideology and intelligentsia.
(12 .0 marks)
c)
What were the impacts of these views on the redefinition of the sociology of
knowledge?
(8.3
marks)
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Q.3
a)
Briefly outline the complexly interrelated concepts of creation, diffusion and
utilization
of
knowledge.
(6.0
marks)
b)
Discuss the thematic highlights of knowledge creation as Stephen D. Nelson
presented it. What relevance would knowledge creation have for Kenya?
(17.3
marks)
4. a) The
21st Century is uniquely a knowledge era and ? ultimately inevitably ? all
society?s shall need to attain the ?knowledge society? status. Discuss, in
reference
to
Nico
Stehr. (16.0
marks)
b)
As a young Kenyan sociologist of knowledge, what advice would you offer to
Kenyan policy makers as we deliberate on Vision 2030?
(7.3 marks)
Q.5
Write succinct, lucid notes on THREE of the following
a)
Relationism
versus
relativism.
b)
subjective Reality versus Objective Reality.
c)
Knowledge: types, characteristics, management
d)
Menton?s notion of the ?Sociology of Sociology.
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