Knowledge, Experience, and Ruling : Studies in the Social Organization of Knowledge.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- Accessing Treatments: Managing the AIDS Epidemic in Ontario -- Multiculturalism as Ideology: A Textual Analysis -- Beyond the Ruling Category to What Actually Happens: Notes on James Mill's Historiography in The History of British India -- Violence and the Relations of Ruling: Lessons from the Battered Women's Movement -- The Textual Practices of Sexual Rule: Sexual Policing and Gay Men -- Beginning in the Standpoint of Women: An Investigation of the Gap between Cholas and 'Women of Peru' -- Mothering, Schooling, and Children's Development -- Corporate Wives: Gendered Education of Their Children -- What's Health Got to Do with It? Class, Gender, and Teachers' Work -- Compulsory Heterosexuality: Schools and Lesbian Students -- 'These Things Just Happen': Talk, Text, and Curriculum Reform -- Activating the Photographic Text -- Downgrading Clerical Work in a Textually Mediated Labour Process -- The Power of Being Professional -- Teaching Accountability: What Counts as Nursing Education? -- Rendering the Site Developable: Texts and Local Government Decision Making in Land Use Planning -- Literacy, Experience, Power -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

This tribute to Smith's empowering contribution as a thinker and teacher reveals how empirical studies can illuminate concepts usually presented in the abstract. As the first compilation of applications of Smith's methodology, this is a landmark work in the developing field of the social organization of knowledge.

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