This book argues that knowledge is now central to the modern economy and its productive processes. It is also essential for social relations, social cohesion and conflict resolution. We have moved from a society based around heavy commodities to symbolic goods, from situated markets to non-place-specific locations, from machines to software and from things to ideas. These changes produce new forms of social interaction and new perspectives on identity, practice and association. This penetrating book slices through the cliches and blind alleys of discussions around the knowledge society to reveal the tendons of contemporary change. Written with insight and panache the book explains the momentous nature of the changes associated with the knowledge society. INDICE: IntroductionExcursus FragilityPART ONE: THE TEXTURE OF MODERN SOCIETIESThe Nation StateFunctional DifferentiationRationalizing the IrrationalTraditional and Modern SocietiesThe Extension of Social ConductPART TWO: KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIESThe Emergence of Knowledge SocietiesThe Society of SocietiesPART THREE: KNOWLEDGE ABOUT KNOWLEDGEKnowledge as a Capacity for ActionCulture and KnowledgeFrom Capacities to RealizationIncremental KnowledgeKnowledge and InformationLimits of Power and KnowledgeExcursus Forms of CapitalPART FOUR: FUSION THROUGH DISSOLUTIONThe Disappearance of Human AgencyA Surplus of Social ManipulationExcursus Herrshaft kraft WissenPART FIVE: FRAGILE SOCIAL STRUCTURESThe World of Post-Industrial SocietiesCollective and Individual Capacities to ActPART SIX: GOVERNING KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIESThe Stalled SocietyThe Politics of Knowledge SocietiesPolitical Action and KnowledgeabilityPART SEVEN: FRAGMENTATION AND HOMOGENIZATION OF SOCIAL LIFEThe Advent of Mass SocietiesThe Globalization of the WorldGlobalization in Historical TimesThe Divisions of the WorldThe Reconfiguration of the GlobePART EIGHT: POLICING KNOWLEDGEKnowledge PoliticsRegulating KnowledgeThe Social Control of Knowledge Claims in ScienceThe Societal Regulation of KnowledgeThe Virchow-Haeckel ControversyThe Public and ScienceThe Developments of Social ControlsKnowledge Hierarchies and MonopoliesPART NINE: EMANCIPATION AND KNOWLEDGEThe Knowledge/Power AxisThe New Risks of KnowledgeModern Social MovementsExcursus Knowing and RisksPART TEN: KNOWLEDGE, UNCERTAINTY AND CONTINGENCYProspects or What Remains Open
- ISBN: 978-0-7619-5349-4
- Editorial: SAGE Publications Ltd
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