Contributions of American Pragmatism to the Sociology of Knowledge.

The authors identify and develop the contribution of pragmatic thought to the sociology of knowledge The argument presented here elucidates the pragmatist position on several controversial issues currently confronting the sociology of knowledge, namely; the issues of rationality, relativism, subjectivism, objectivity, language, truth, and the nature of theory and explanation. The paper concludes that the corpus of pragmatic thought resolves these issues in a timely, relevant, and significant way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]