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The University in Knowledge Societies

Social Epistemology, 1998
Partageant avec G. Delanty («The idea of the university in the global era: from knowledge as an end to the end of knowledge» in «Social epistemology», 12,1, 1998, 3-25) le sentiment que la question du role de l'universite a l'ere mondiale est negligee par la societe moderne, l'A.
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Bottleneck of Knowledge Society

2008
Knowledge is a precondition of prosperity and sustainability of human society. The pre condition of acquiring, development, and use of knowledge is a proper education. But what education in what extent? According to observations of current society there is a lack of people interested in the study of and willing to work in science [1,2], engineering [3],
Jaroslav Král, Michal Zemlicka
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Modern societies as knowledge societies

2001
New social realities require a new perspective. In advanced societies, the capacity of the individual to say no has increased considerably. At the same time, the ability of the large social institutions that have significantly shaped the nature of the twentieth century to get things done has diminished in the past couple of decades.
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The Use of Knowledge in Society

1996
Many of the current disputes with regard to both economic theory and economic policy have their common origin, it seems to me, in a misconception about the nature of the economic problem of society. This misconception in turn is due to an erroneous transfer to social phenomena of the habits of thought we have developed in dealing with the phenomena of ...
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Knowledge Societies

Chapter Summary This chapter reviews the current state of understanding of knowledge societies. The authors highlight the gaps in the literature and the absence of a practical working definition. By pulling together research from several fields, a working definition is proposed.
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Knowledge and society

Politics, 1968
Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann: The Social Construction of Reality, Allan Lane, The Penguin Press, London, 1967, 249 pp. S8.50. Also (1967) as Anchor Paperback $1.25.
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The Knowledge Society

2010
Generally speaking, all societies in history were knowledge societies. However, the modern, conceptualization of the ” knowledge society’ can be traced to John Stuart Mill’s (1831) The Spirit of the Age where social progress was explained through the diffusion of knowledge (intellectual wisdom) and increased opportunities for individual choice arising ...
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Knowledge and society

Inquiry, 1966
The question of the nature of our knowledge of society has recently been raised in an interesting form by Peter Winch in his monograph, The Idea of a Social Science, and debated in recent issues of Inquiry by A. R. Louch and Winch himself. In this paper I attempt to contribute to this discussion by attacking the problem of the nature of the empirical ...
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The Knowledge Society

2015
This section of the book addresses socialization in the knowledge-based societies, focussing on how this societal formation structures the life phases of childhood. In the educational knowledge society the processes of socialization are increasingly understood as the accumulation of social and cultural capital, related to the functions of educational ...
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