The fragility of modern societies: knowledge and risk in the information age
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1. Verfasser: Stehr, Nico (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London SAGE 2001
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Beschreibung:German edition published: Weilerswist : Velbrück, 2000. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-212) and indexes
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Texture of Modern Societies; 2 Knowledge Societies; 3 Knowledge about Knowledge; 4 Fusion through Dissolution; 5 Fragile Social Structures; 6 Governing Knowledge Societies; 7 Fragmentation and Homogenization of Social Life; 8 Policing Knowledge; 9 Emancipation and Knowledge; 10 Knowledge, Uncertainty and Contingency; Statistical Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Subject Index; Name Index
This book argues that knowledge is now central to the modern economy and its productive processes. It is also essential for social relations, social cohesion and conflict resolution. We have moved from a society based around heavy commodities to symbolic goods, from situated markets to non-place-specific locations, from machines to software and from things to ideas. These changes produce new forms of social interaction and new perspectives on identity, practice and association. This penetrating book slices through the cliches and blind alleys of discussions around the knowledge society to reve
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ISBN:0761953485
1847876749
9780761953487
9781847876744

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