The Culture and Power of Knowledge
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The Culture and Power of Knowledge

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2013
ISBN
9783110847765
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Part I. The Culture and Power of Knowledge in Modern Society
  2. Introduction
  3. I. Knowledge Societies
  4. II. Theories of Modern Society
  5. III. Toward a Sociological Concept of Knowledge
  6. IV. Researchable Issues
  7. Notes
  8. References
  9. Part II. Theoretical Perspectives
  10. Introduction
  11. A Critical View of Modernity
  12. The Techno-structures of Society
  13. I. Introduction
  14. II. Technology as the Self-preservation of Society
  15. III. The Technical Object and the Techno-structure
  16. IV. Technical Socialization and Release
  17. V. Society and Generation
  18. VI. Concluding Remarks
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. Some Observations on “Post-modern” Society
  22. The Idols of Technology
  23. I. Bacon’s Idols
  24. II. A Modern Idolatry
  25. III. Bacon’s Wager
  26. IV. The Century of Environmental Crisis
  27. V. Appendix: Issues in the Perception of Environmental Risks
  28. Notes
  29. References
  30. Part III. Knowledge, Experts and Expertise
  31. Introduction
  32. Life-world and Expertise: Social Production of Dependency
  33. I. Existential Foundations of Expertise
  34. II. Redeployment of Skills
  35. III. Self-reproduction of Expertise
  36. IV. Marketing the Expertise
  37. V. The Tendencies and Limits of Expert-Designed Life World
  38. Notes
  39. References
  40. Experts, Counsellors and Advisers
  41. I. Knowledge and Expertise
  42. II. The Knowledge Society
  43. III. Intellectuals and Experts
  44. IV. Institutions and Expertise
  45. V. Conditions for the Growth of Experts
  46. VI. The Functions of Expertise
  47. VII. Conclusion
  48. Notes
  49. References
  50. Knowledge as Product and Property
  51. I. The Interchangeability of Knowledge and Power
  52. II. Embodying Knowledge as Professional Power
  53. III. From Knowledge Product to Intellectual Property
  54. IV. Conferring Validity and Value on Intellectual Property
  55. V. Is the Market for Knowledge Saturated or Depressed?
  56. Notes
  57. References
  58. Part IV. Science and Technology as Social Risks
  59. Introduction
  60. Modern Society as a Risk Society
  61. I. The Paradigm of the Risk-society
  62. II. Risks of Modernization – Five Theses
  63. III. First Thesis: Knowledge is Dependent on Modernization Risks
  64. IV Second Thesis: Modernization Risks Exploding the Class-structure
  65. V. Third Thesis: On the Market Form of Modernization Risks
  66. VI. Fourth Thesis: Conciousness Determines Being, Knowledge of Risks and Levels of Effect of Risks
  67. VII. Fifth Thesis: The Risk-society Engenders the Political Potential for a Dirigiste Politics of the State of Emergency
  68. Note
  69. Science as a Societal Risk Producer
  70. I The General Intersystemic Dynamics of Scientific Risk Production
  71. II Some Institutional Determinants of the Societal Risk Potential of Research Behavior
  72. Notes
  73. References
  74. Social Conflicts about the Definition of Risks: The Role of Science
  75. I. Traditional Risks
  76. II. Industrial Risks
  77. III. New Technological Risks
  78. IV. New Risks and Societal Conflicts
  79. V. Science and Public Conflicts About Risks
  80. VI. Some Typical Strategies of Risk Definition
  81. References
  82. Part V. The Economic Structure of Knowledge Societies
  83. Introduction
  84. The Changed World Economy
  85. Notes
  86. References
  87. Global Change and Economic Policy
  88. I. The World of 1950
  89. II. The Shift to the New Order
  90. III. The World of 1990
  91. IV. Economic Policy in Transition
  92. V. Conclusion
  93. Notes
  94. References
  95. Learning and the Economy
  96. I. Introduction
  97. II. The Economists’ View of Human Capital
  98. III. Knowledge, Competence and General Skills
  99. IV. The Learning Process and the Learning Cycle
  100. V. Learning and Innovation
  101. VI. Learning and Economics
  102. VII. Learning and the Economy
  103. References
  104. Part VI. Empirical Analysis of Knowledge Production and its Social Consequences
  105. Introduction
  106. Scientific Evidence and the Regulation of Technical Risks: Twenty Years of Demythologizing the Experts
  107. I. Professional Analysis vs. Political Bargaining
  108. II. “We Do Not Know Enough!”
  109. III. “You Never Know Enough”
  110. IV. The Professional Appropriation of Risk Controversies
  111. V. The Limits and Relevance of Professional Mandate in the Regulation of Risk
  112. References
  113. Expertise as a Network: A Case Study of the Controversies over the Environmental Release of Genetically Engineered Organisms
  114. I. Introduction
  115. II. Analyzing “Expertise”
  116. III. The Debate over Genetically Engineered Microorganisms (GEMS)
  117. IV. Concluding remarks
  118. Notes
  119. References
  120. Expert Advice and Pragmatic Rationality
  121. I. The Ozone Layer Debate
  122. II. Standards for Dioxin in the Netherlands
  123. III. Conclusion
  124. Notes
  125. References
  126. On the Authors
  127. Name Index
  128. Subject Index