An introduction to the sociology of ignorance : essays on the limits of knowing - McGoey, Linsey (London ; New York : Routledge, 2014)
Linsey McGoey: Strategic unknowns: towards a sociology of ignorance -- Carol A. Heimer: Inert facts and the illusion of knowledge: strategic uses of ignorance in HIV clinics -- Brian Rappert: States of ignorance: the unmaking and remaking of death tolls -- William Davis and Linsey McGoey: Rationalities of ignorance: on financial crisis and the ambivalence of neo-liberal epistemology -- Jacqueline Best: Bureaucratic ambiguity -- Steve Rayner: Uncomfortable knowledge: the social construction of ignorance in science and envirenmental policy discourses.
Chapters originally published in Economy and Society, vol. 41, issue 1 (February 2012).
Includes index, p. 127-131.
Keywords: Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) -- Social aspects