Knowledge : is knowledge power?

✍ Scribed by Adolf, Marian; Stehr, Nico

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 327
• Series: Key ideas.
• Edition: Second edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As we move through our modern world, the phenomenon we call
knowledge is always involved.Whether we talk of know-how, technology,
innovation, politics or education, it is the concept of knowledge that
ties them all together. However, despite its ubiquity as a modern trope,
we seldom encounter knowledge in itself. How is it produced, where does
it reside, and who owns it? Is knowledge always beneficial, will we
know all there is to know at some point in the future, and does knowledge
really equal power? This book pursues an original approach to this concept
that seems to define so many aspects of modern societies. It explores the
topic from a distinctly sociological perspective, and traces the many
ways that knowledge is woven into the very fabric of modern society.
Marian Adolf is Professor of Media Culture at Zeppelin University in
Friedrichshafen, Germany. His research interests revolve around the
interface of media and social change, communication and cultural theory.
He has held appointments as Visiting Professor at Quest University and
Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, and currently serves as chair of the
German Communication Association’s section for Media Sociology.
Nico Stehr is Karl Mannheim Professor of Cultural Studies at Zeppelin
University in Friedrichshafen, Germany. He formerly held professorships
at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, the University of British Columbia,
Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, and was Paul F. Lazarsfeld
Guest Professor at the University of Vienna. 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.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Classical sociological conceptions of knowledge --
   2. Knowledge about knowledge --
   3. The knowledge of the powerful --
   4. Non-knowledge --
   5. Policing knowledge --
   6. Forms of knowledge --
   7. Global knowledge --
   8. Digital worlds and knowledge/information --
   9. Functions of knowledge --
   10. The price of knowledge --
   11. The benefits of knowledge.

✦ Subjects

Knowledge, Sociology of;Knowledge, Politics;History;