ISBN:
0203877748
,
1283373793
,
9781134004386
,
9781283373791
,
9780203877746
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 211 p.)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Politics of Knowledge
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Political sociology
;
Knowledge, Sociology of
;
Information technology Political aspects
;
Information technology - Political aspects
;
Information technology - Political aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Informationsgesellschaft
;
Informationstechnik
;
Politik
Abstract:
Social scientists often refer to contemporary advanced societies as 'knowledge societies', which indicates the extent to which 'science', 'knowledge' and 'knowledge production' have become fundamental phenomena in Western societies and central concerns for the social sciences. This book aims to investigate the political dimension of this production and validation of knowledge.In studying the relationship between knowledge and politics, this book provides a novel perspective on current debates about 'knowledge societies', and offers an interdisciplinary agenda for future research. It addresses
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Politics of Knowledge; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; The Politics of Knowledge: An introduction; 1 The politics of public reason; 2 The politics of non-knowing: an emerging area of social and political conflict in reflexive modernity; 3 Technology, legal knowledge and citizenship: on the care of locked-in syndrome patients; 4 'Step inside: knowledge freely available' - the politics of (making) knowledge-objects; 5 Informal knowledge and its enablements: the role of the new technologies; 6 Secularisation and the politics of religious knowledge
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Social fluidity: the politics of a theoretical model8 Collateral realities; 9 Transforming the intellectual; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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