The sociology of sociological knowledge: New paths of a research program

如何用社会学工具分析社会学知识的结构？社会学知识生产是由哪些社会过程和实践构成的？这些问题是从非常不同的角度提出的。然而，它们中的大多数都被中止了，没有联系，或者仍然与社会学的主流方法隔离。为了整合和进一步发展这些辩论，将在研究网络中讨论五个相互关联的主题。(1)将科学技术研究概念引入社会学知识研究的前景和问题；(2)社会学范式转换的结构和过程；(3)社会学知识分析方法的比较分析；(4)社会学知识的学术和非学术公众的结构和转变；(5)社会学学科认同的连续性和中断。在此背景下，研究网络的目标是将社会学知识的社会学制度化，作为德语社会学的一个研究领域，将其与该领域的国际辩论更紧密地结合起来，并通过合作会议、出版物和可见的交流形式，支持网络中的早期职业研究人员。

How to analyze the structures of sociological knowledge with a sociological toolkit and what social processes and practices constitute sociological knowledge production? Such questions have been formulated from very different perspectives. Most of them, however, were discontinued, stayed unconnected or remained isolated from mainstream approaches in sociology . To integrate and to further develop these debates, five interrelated topics will be addressed in the research network.(1) Prospects and problems of importing concepts of science and technology studies into the study of sociological knowledge, (2) structures and processes of paradigm shifts in sociology, (3) comparative analyses of methods in analyzing sociological knowledge, (4) structures and transformations of academic and non-academic publics of sociological knowledge and (5) continuities and disruptions in disciplinary identities in sociology. With this background, the research network aims at institutionalizing the sociology of sociological knowledge as a research field in German-speaking sociology, at integrating it more closely with international debates in this area, and, by means of cooperative meetings, publications and visible communication formats, at supporting early career researchers in the network.