Knowledge: Critical Concepts, Volume 4Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann Taylor & Francis, 2005 - 424 pages The increasing investment in scientific knowledge, in its production, distribution and reproduction, is acquiring greater social significance. Everything that is regarded as knowledge in society has become a legitimate subject matter for academic investigations from various disciplines and for practitioners. |
Contents
Of the executive in a representative government | 27 |
The policy orientation | 40 |
Technology and science as ideology | 56 |
Science and transscience | 88 |
The spectrum from truth to power | 103 |
from knowledge to action | 145 |
Policy change over a decade or more | 164 |
the organization | 197 |
The nature of political knowledge | 251 |
Ideas politics and public policy | 283 |
epistemic communities and international policy | 303 |
Knowledge or unawareness? Two perspectives on reflexive | 340 |
Science for the postnormal age | 365 |
Credible knowledge hierarchies of expertise and the politics | 386 |
Social control and knowledge in democratic societies | 410 |
Governing economic life | 220 |
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