Peter Burke, Sociología e Historia: interdisciplinariedad y las nuevas maneras de escribir nuestra realidad social - Peter Burke, Sociology and History: Interdisciplinarity and New Ways of Writing Our Social Reality

Abstract

The ideas Peter Burke expounds in his work Sociology and History will be analyzed with the aim of tracing the movement between both disciplines and their effect on social reality, culture, and everyday life. Burke renewed historiography, studying aspects such as the social functions of language, the functions of images, and the world of humor. Burke focuses on the Modern Age and its interest in knowledge, summarizes significant perspectives and authors of the sociology of knowledge since Durkheim, expresses his inclination toward Mannheim, mentions the classics Veblen and Weber, and explores Kuhn and Merton's approach to science, taking into account Foucault and Bourdieu. He realizes the importance of how the circulation of ideas oxygenates and expands them. He establishes a series of topics, concerns, and references that populate specialized literature. For Burke, knowledge materializes and moves; it is produced and exchanged, and this confers greater global and local cultural richness and provokes new historical depth.