… ignorance, contributes to a better understanding of commercially driven research and its
societal … scientific practices, turning them into mechanisms of ignorance production. To do so, I …

An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance: Essays on the Limits of Knowing Page 1
Uncomfortable knowledge: the social construction of ignorance in science and environmental …

… Following the previous literature on willful ignorance, we … in this setting compared to social
interactions. The main reason is … social interactions facilitate the production of willful ignorance…

… is a social product. This is not to say that there is nothing we really do not … that ignorance
can be understood only in reference to a social context, and that a great proportion of ignorance …

… must also appreciate that unspoken arrangements of concerted ignorance are esstantial to
… facilitate concerted ignorance, and then Ispeculate on variations in social organization that …

… In this paper I present a conceptualization of the user as social construct, drawing upon a
non-cognitive approach towards the analysis of discourse. This is contrasted with existing …

… The social construction of ignorance has considerable consequences for social life, as
will be argued more systematically in later sections. The maintenance of the conventional …

… In 1993, following the lead of Smithson (1989) in viewing ignorance as a social construction,
we laid out a case for attention to the importance of claimsmaking in this process. Drawing …

… called" manageable" ignorance and uncertainty. 20 This shift in managerial ideology is but
a reflection of historical trends in the social construction of ignorance which are as profound …

… ignorance. This essay offers informal descriptions of three major projects on the social
construction of ignorance … development of a sociology of scientific ignorance (SSI) to complement …