Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge (German: Probleme einer Soziologie des Wissens) is a 1924 essay by the German philosopher, sociologist, and anthropologist Max Scheler. It was translated into English by Manfred S. Frings and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1980. It reappeared in expanded form in Scheler's 1926 book Die Wissensformen und die Gesellschaft.