The Culture and Power of Knowledge
Inquiries into Contemporary Societies
1st Edition
Published on 8. May 2013
XI, 397 pages
978-3-11-084776-5 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2013
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English
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Berlin/Boston
Germany
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Content
- Intro
- Part I. The Culture and Power of Knowledge in Modern Society
- Introduction
- I. Knowledge Societies
- II. Theories of Modern Society
- III. Toward a Sociological Concept of Knowledge
- IV. Researchable Issues
- Notes
- References
- Part II. Theoretical Perspectives
- Introduction
- A Critical View of Modernity
- The Techno-structures of Society
- I. Introduction
- II. Technology as the Self-preservation of Society
- III. The Technical Object and the Techno-structure
- IV. Technical Socialization and Release
- V. Society and Generation
- VI. Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- References
- Some Observations on "Post-modern" Society
- The Idols of Technology
- I. Bacon's Idols
- II. A Modern Idolatry
- III. Bacon's Wager
- IV. The Century of Environmental Crisis
- V. Appendix: Issues in the Perception of Environmental Risks
- Notes
- References
- Part III. Knowledge, Experts and Expertise
- Introduction
- Life-world and Expertise: Social Production of Dependency
- I. Existential Foundations of Expertise
- II. Redeployment of Skills
- III. Self-reproduction of Expertise
- IV. Marketing the Expertise
- V. The Tendencies and Limits of Expert-Designed Life World
- Notes
- References
- Experts, Counsellors and Advisers
- I. Knowledge and Expertise
- II. The Knowledge Society
- III. Intellectuals and Experts
- IV. Institutions and Expertise
- V. Conditions for the Growth of Experts
- VI. The Functions of Expertise
- VII. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Knowledge as Product and Property
- I. The Interchangeability of Knowledge and Power
- II. Embodying Knowledge as Professional Power
- III. From Knowledge Product to Intellectual Property
- IV. Conferring Validity and Value on Intellectual Property
- V. Is the Market for Knowledge Saturated or Depressed?
- Notes
- References
- Part IV. Science and Technology as Social Risks
- Introduction
- Modern Society as a Risk Society
- I. The Paradigm of the Risk-society
- II. Risks of Modernization - Five Theses
- III. First Thesis: Knowledge is Dependent on Modernization Risks
- IV Second Thesis: Modernization Risks Exploding the Class-structure
- V. Third Thesis: On the Market Form of Modernization Risks
- VI. Fourth Thesis: Conciousness Determines Being, Knowledge of Risks and Levels of Effect of Risks
- VII. Fifth Thesis: The Risk-society Engenders the Political Potential for a Dirigiste Politics of the State of Emergency
- Note
- Science as a Societal Risk Producer
- I The General Intersystemic Dynamics of Scientific Risk Production
- II Some Institutional Determinants of the Societal Risk Potential of Research Behavior
- Notes
- References
- Social Conflicts about the Definition of Risks: The Role of Science
- I. Traditional Risks
- II. Industrial Risks
- III. New Technological Risks
- IV. New Risks and Societal Conflicts
- V. Science and Public Conflicts About Risks
- VI. Some Typical Strategies of Risk Definition
- References
- Part V. The Economic Structure of Knowledge Societies
- Introduction
- The Changed World Economy
- Notes
- References
- Global Change and Economic Policy
- I. The World of 1950
- II. The Shift to the New Order
- III. The World of 1990
- IV. Economic Policy in Transition
- V. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Learning and the Economy
- I. Introduction
- II. The Economists' View of Human Capital
- III. Knowledge, Competence and General Skills
- IV. The Learning Process and the Learning Cycle
- V. Learning and Innovation
- VI. Learning and Economics
- VII. Learning and the Economy
- References
- Part VI. Empirical Analysis of Knowledge Production and its Social Consequences
- Introduction
- Scientific Evidence and the Regulation of Technical Risks: Twenty Years of Demythologizing the Experts
- I. Professional Analysis vs. Political Bargaining
- II. "We Do Not Know Enough!"
- III. "You Never Know Enough"
- IV. The Professional Appropriation of Risk Controversies
- V. The Limits and Relevance of Professional Mandate in the Regulation of Risk
- References
- Expertise as a Network: A Case Study of the Controversies over the Environmental Release of Genetically Engineered Organisms
- I. Introduction
- II. Analyzing "Expertise"
- III. The Debate over Genetically Engineered Microorganisms (GEMS)
- IV. Concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- Expert Advice and Pragmatic Rationality
- I. The Ozone Layer Debate
- II. Standards for Dioxin in the Netherlands
- III. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- On the Authors
- Name Index
- Subject Index
