The Culture and Power of Knowledge: Inquiries into Contemporary Societies

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The Culture and Power of Knowledge

Inquiries into Contemporary Societies

Edited by: Nico Stehr and Richard V. Ericson

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1992

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The Culture and Power of Knowledge in Modern Society
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Nico Stehr and Richard V. Ericson

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Part II. Theoretical Perspectives
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Introduction
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A Critical View of Modernity
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Alain Touraine

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The Techno-structures of Society
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Gernot Böhme

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Some Observations on “Post-modern” Society
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S.N. Eisenstadt

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The Idols of Technology
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William Leiss

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Part III. Knowledge, Experts and Expertise
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Nico Stehr and Richard V. Ericson

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Life-world and Expertise: Social Production of Dependency
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Zygmunt Bauman

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Experts, Counsellors and Advisers
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Nico Stehr

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Knowledge as Product and Property
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Steve Fuller

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Introduction
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Modem Society as a Risk Society
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Ulrich Beck

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Science as a Societal Risk Producer: A General Model of Intersystemic Dynamics, and some Specific Institutional Determinants of Research Behavior
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Uwe Schimank

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Social Conflicts about the Definition of Risks: The Role of Science
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Christoph Lau

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Part V. The Economic Structure of Knowledge Societies
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The Changed World Economy
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Peter F. Drucker

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Global Change and Economic Policy
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Learning and the Economy
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Part VI. Empirical Analysis of Knowledge Production and its Social Consequences
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Scientific Evidence and the Regulation of Technical Risks: Twenty Years of Demythologizing the Experts
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Wolfgang van den Daele

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Expertise as a Network: A Case Study of the Controversies over the Environmental Release of Genetically Engineered Organisms
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Expert Advice and Pragmatic Rationality
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On the Authors
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Name Index
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Subject Index
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The Culture and Power of Knowledge

Overview

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

The Culture and Power of Knowledge in Modern Society

Introduction

A Critical View of Modernity

The Techno-structures of Society

Some Observations on “Post-modern” Society

The Idols of Technology

Introduction

Life-world and Expertise: Social Production of Dependency

Experts, Counsellors and Advisers

Knowledge as Product and Property

Introduction

Modem Society as a Risk Society

Science as a Societal Risk Producer: A General Model of Intersystemic Dynamics, and some Specific Institutional Determinants of Research Behavior

Social Conflicts about the Definition of Risks: The Role of Science

Introduction

The Changed World Economy

Global Change and Economic Policy

Learning and the Economy

Introduction

Scientific Evidence and the Regulation of Technical Risks: Twenty Years of Demythologizing the Experts

Expertise as a Network: A Case Study of the Controversies over the Environmental Release of Genetically Engineered Organisms

Expert Advice and Pragmatic Rationality

On the Authors

Name Index

Subject Index

Backmatter

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