The Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt (later to become the Frankfurt School of critical theory) was founded in 1923.. 
One Notable text is Manuel Castells' the Internet galaxy—the title of which forms an inter-Texlóri reference to Marshall McLuhan's the Gutenberg Galaxyknowledge and Sciencethe sociology of knowledge is the study of the relationship between human thought and the social Context within which it arises, and of the effects àfonífojìlingling ideas have on Societies.. 