ABSTRACT
A Question o f Knowledge is written for those who might wish to make social scientific inquiry into any form of knowledge. Its origin was the design for an optional course in the sociology of knowledge for the M Sc in sociology at South Bank University, London. Students, not all of whom had studied social science to degree level before, but might have had professional qualifications in educa tion, health or social policy, were first exposed to core courses in social theory and research methodology. Some such exposure is assumed here.
