The Culture and Power of Knowledge

Inquiries into Contemporary Societies

Nico Stehr, Richard V. Ericson, Nico Stehr, Richard V. Ericson

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9783110131758
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110847765
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Education General
• Index: Social Sciences

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Table of contents

• 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