Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Part I
5. The Culture and Power of Knowledge in Modern Society 3
6. Part II. Theoretical Perspectives
7. Introduction 23
8. A Critical View of Modernity 29
9. The Techno-structures of Society 39
10. Some Observations on “Post-modern” Society 51
11. The Idols of Technology 61
12. Part III. Knowledge, Experts and Expertise
13. Introduction 75
14. Life-world and Expertise: Social Production of Dependency 81
15. Experts, Counsellors and Advisers 107
16. Knowledge as Product and Property 157
17. Introduction 193
18. Modem Society as a Risk Society 199
19. Science as a Societal Risk Producer: A General Model of Intersystemic Dynamics, and some Specific Institutional Determinants of Research Behavior 215
20. Social Conflicts about the Definition of Risks: The Role of Science 235
21. Part V. The Economic Structure of Knowledge Societies
22. Introduction 251
23. The Changed World Economy 257
24. Global Change and Economic Policy 279
25. Learning and the Economy 301
26. Part VI. Empirical Analysis of Knowledge Production and its Social Consequences
27. Introduction 317
28. Scientific Evidence and the Regulation of Technical Risks: Twenty Years of Demythologizing the Experts 323
29. Expertise as a Network: A Case Study of the Controversies over the Environmental Release of Genetically Engineered Organisms 341
30. Expert Advice and Pragmatic Rationality 363
31. On the Authors 381
32. Name Index 385
33. Subject Index 393
34. Backmatter 403