I’ve previously mentioned the existence of my honours thesis ( here , here and here ) and the possibility that I might place it in the eternal cloud known as the internet. Well I've finally gotten around to doing just that and you can find Discerning Knowers: An Exploratory Study of University Students’ Perceptions of Knowledge Claims: here . To get an idea of what it's all about, the abstract is as follows: The thesis is centred on how University students perceive the legitimacy of knowledge claims. Contemporary sociological theory is often concerned with the transformations associated with the emergent “ knowledge economy ” and “knowledge society”. In view of this, University students’ perception of knowledge claims is of practical concern due to their future role as knowledge-workers and potential members of the power elite. To address these issues, elements of Social Realism , Legitimation Code Theory and Systemic Functional Linguistics have been d...