β Scribed by Gernot BΓΆhme (ed.), Nico Stehr (ed.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The original essays collected here under the general title of The Knowledge Society were first commissioned for a conference held in the late fall of 1984 at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, West Germany. The conference in Darmstadt saw a larger number of contribuΒ tions presented than could be accommodated in this edition of the SociolΒ ogy of the Sciences Yearbook. However, all contributions were important and affected those published in this collection. We are therefore grateful to all participants of the Darmstadt conference for their presentations and for their intense, useful as well as thoughtful discussion of all papers. Those chosen for publication in the Yearbook and those undoubtedly to be published elsewhere have all benefitted considerably from our discussions in Darmstadt which also included a number of the members of the editoΒ rial board of the Yearbook. In addition, we are pleased that the authors were able to read and comment further on each other's papers prior to publication. As is the case in every endeavor of this kind, we have incurred many debts and are only able to acknowledge these at this point publicly while expressing our sincere thanks and appreciation for all the intellectual supΒ port and the considerable labor invested by a number of persons in the realization of the collection.
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-6
The Growing Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Social Relations....Pages 7-29
Finite Human Capacities and the Pattern of Social Stratification in a Knowledge Society....Pages 31-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Introduction....Pages 53-55
Demarcation as a Strategy of Exclusion: Philosophers and Sophists....Pages 57-66
Scientists Protect their Cognitive Authority: The Status Degradation Ceremony of Sir Cyril Burt....Pages 67-86
The Reproduction of Objective Knowledge: Common Sense Reasoning in Medical Decision Making....Pages 87-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Introduction....Pages 125-127
The Scientification of Police Work....Pages 129-159
The Scientification of Architecture....Pages 161-182
Knowledge Form and Scientific Community: Early Experimental Biology and the Marine Biological Laboratory....Pages 183-202
Back Matter....Pages 203-209
Interdisciplinary Studies
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