ABSTRACT
The new sociology hinted at a link-up with new discursive and social movements by its interest in the knowledge question. The analytic categories of new sociology show how an intellectual shift can be indicated, yet contained and retracted into familiar prevailing codes. Conscious rational human activity is dissolved between poles of manipulative human relations and iron-like systems laws. Popularity of the hidden curriculum concept has the effect of replacing knowledge with interpersonalism. The sociology of knowledge is the basis for new sociological analysis of school knowledge or curriculum. Sociologists of school knowledge use this qualified representational sociology of knowledge. Assertions of the importance of non-reductive analyses of knowledge are typical of the new criticism in literature, and of broader intellectual trends of formalism, structuralism, and semiotics. Structuralism is a broad intellectual movement that spans linguistics, literary analysis and anthropology, and that may be described as a synchronic study of the internal relational rules of difference which constitute language and literature.
