The Fragility of Modern Societies/ knowledge and risk in the information age
Stehr,Nico
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- London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001.
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Introduction Excursus; Fragility 1 The Texture of Modem Societies The Nation-state \ ' Functional Differentiation _ Rationalizing the Irrational Traditional and Modem Societies The Extension of Social Conduct 2 Knowledge Societies The Emergence of Knowledge Societies The Society of Societies 3 Knowledge about Knowledge Knowledge as a Capacity for Action Culture and Knowledge From Capacities to Realization Incremental Knowledge Knowledge and Information Limits to the Power of Knowledge Excursus: Forms of Capital 4 Fusion through Dissolution The Disappearance of Human Agency A Surplus of Social Manipulation Moral Indifference, Power and Science Excursus: Herrschaft kraft Wissen 5 Fragile Social Structures The World of Post-industrial Societies Collective and Individual Capacities to Act 6 Governing Knowledge Societies The Stalled Society The Politics of Knowledge Societies Political Action and Knowledgeability 7 Fragmentation and Homogenization of Social Life The Advent of Mass Societies The Globalization of the World Globalization in Historical Times The Divisions of the World The Reconfiguration of the Globe 8 Policing Knowledge Knowledge Politics Regulating Knowledge . The Social Control of Knowledge Claims in Science The Societal Regulation of Knowledge The Virchow-Haeckel Controversy The Public and Science The Developments of Social Controls ,i Knowledge Hierarchies and Monopolies / 9 Emancipation and Knowledge The Knowledge/Power Axis The New Risks of Knowledge Modem Social Movements Excursus: Knowing and Risks Criticism of the Formal Concept of Risk On the Difference between Decision-makers and those Affected by Risks of Decisions The Return of Uncertainty in Society Risk of Decision in the Context of Fragile Knowledge 10 Knowledge, Uncertainty and Contingency Prospects or what Remains Open Statistical Appendix Nfites Bibliography Subject Index Name Index