Almost everything we do is based on our knowledge of the world around us: how we dress in the morning, how we go about our work, how we interact with other people - all these things rest on our understanding of how we know life. Knowledge might be seen as the most central as well as the most under-researched trait of social life: we mainly think of knowledge as either technical (scientific knowledge) or formal (as bestowed by academic education). The things that we know are obscured in our everyday routines, not revealing their true status as 'known' - until critical moments demand it. This…mehr
Almost everything we do is based on our knowledge of the world around us: how we dress in the morning, how we go about our work, how we interact with other people - all these things rest on our understanding of how we know life. Knowledge might be seen as the most central as well as the most under-researched trait of social life: we mainly think of knowledge as either technical (scientific knowledge) or formal (as bestowed by academic education). The things that we know are obscured in our everyday routines, not revealing their true status as 'known' - until critical moments demand it. This book establishes a fundamentally social understanding of knowledge.
Marian Adolf is Associate Professor of Media Culture at the Department of Communication and Cultural Management at Zeppelin University. His research interest revolves around the interface of media change and social change, the societal role of communication and cultural theory. He regularly publishes on topics such as the public sphere, mediatization and media culture and the culture of the economy. Nico Stehr is Karl Mannheim Professor of Cultural Studies at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen Germany. He has published widely on the topic of Knowledge and is one of the proponents of "Knowledge Society," a term that has acquired widespread currency not only in academia.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface
Introduction
1. Classical Conceptions of Knowledge
2. Knowledge about Knowledge
2.1. Attributes of Knowledge
2.2. Knowledge as a Capacity to Act
2.3. Knowledge and Information
2.4. Practical Knowledge
2.5. Additional Knowledge
2.6. The Uneven Development of Knowledge
2.7. The Limits of the Growth of Knowledge
2.8. A Sociological Concept of Knowledge and its Context
3. The Knowledge of the Powerful
3.1. Knowledge is Power and Power is Knowledge
3.2. The Iron Law of Oligarchy
3.3. Knowledge/Power
3.4. The Global Class
4. Non-knowledge
4.1. Sigmund Freud and Friedrich August von Hayek
4.2. Observations about Non-Knowledge
4.3. Non-knowledge as a Myth?
4.4. Non-knowledge
4.5. Ignorance
4.6. Knowledge Gaps
4.7. Non-knowledge about Non-knowledge
5. Policing Knowledge
5.1. The Self-realization of Knowledge
5.2. The Self-protection of Knowledge
5.3. Knowledge becomes Superfluous
6. Forms of Knowledge
6.1. Everyday Knowledge
6.2. The Power of Everyday Knowledge
6.3. Indigenous or Traditional Knowledge
6.4. Tacit Knowledge
7. Global Knowledge
7.1. Basic Reflections on Global Knowledge
7.2. Global Knowledge Worlds
7.3. Structures of Global Knowledge Spaces
7.4. Forms of Global Knowledge Worlds
7.5. Attributes of Knowledge that Promote Globalization
7.6. Limits to the Globalization of Knowledge
7.7. The Project of Worldwide Worlds of Knowledge, and the Doubts about its Likelihood
8. Digital Worlds and Knowledge/Information
8.1. Information, Communication and Technology
8.2. Societal Communication and Shared Knowledge
8.3. Analyzing the Ubiquity of the Media: Mediatization
8.4. New Media, Old Media and the Hybrid Media System
