The fragility of modern societies
Subtitle: knowledge and risk in the information age
By: Nico Stehr.
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Knowledge, Sociology of.; Civilization, Modern -- 1950-; Social change.; Risk -- Sociological aspects.; Individualism.; Power (Social sciences)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-212) and indexes.
German edition published: Weilerswist : Velbrück, 2000.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Tables and Figures vii; title: Preface ix; title: Acknowledgments xii; title: Introduction 1; title: Excursus: Fragility 6; title: 1 The Texture of Modem Societies 9; title: The Nation-state 9; title: Functional Differentiation 11; title: Rationalizing the Irrational 14; title: Traditional and Modem Societies 16; title: The Extension of Social Conduct 18; title: 2 Knowledge Societies 19; title: The Emergence of Knowledge Societies 20; title: The Society of Societies 24; title: 3 Knowledge about Knowledge 31; title: Knowledge as a Capacity for Action 35; title: Culture and Knowledge 36; title: From Capacities to Realization 38; title: Incremental Knowledge 39; title: Knowledge and Information 41; title: Limits to the Power of Knowledge 45; title: Excursus: Forms of Capital 48; title: 4 Fusion through Dissolution 53; title: The Disappearance of Human Agency 54; title: A Surplus of Social Manipulation 55; title: Moral Indifference, Power and Science 58; title: Excursus: Herrschaft kraft Wissen 59; title: 5 Fragile Social Structures 64; title: The World of Post-industrial Societies 65; title: Collective and Individual Capacities to Act 67; title: 6 Governing Knowledge Societies 71; title: The Stalled Society 75; title: The Politics of Knowledge Societies 81; title: Political Action and Knowledgeability 90; title: 7 Fragmentation and Homogenization of Social Life 93; title: The Advent of Mass Societies 93; title: The Globalization of the World 97; title: Globalization in Historical Times 101; title: The Divisions of the World 104; title: The Reconfiguration of the Globe 109; title: 8 Policing Knowledge 112; title: Knowledge Politics 113; title: Regulating Knowledge 114; title: The Social Control of Knowledge Claims in Science 116; title: The Societal Regulation of Knowledge 117; title: The Virchow-Haeckel Controversy 119; title: The Public and Science 123; title: The Developments of Social Controls 124; title: Knowledge Hierarchies and Monopolies 126; title: 9 Emancipation and Knowledge 132; title: The Knowledge/Power Axis 133; title: The New Risks of Knowledge 137; title: Modem Social Movements 140; title: Excursus: Knowing and Risks 143; title: Criticism of the Formal Concept of Risk 144; title: On the Difference between Decision-makers and those; title: Affected by Risks of Decisions 145; title: The Return of Uncertainty in Society 146; title: Risk of Decision in the Context of Fragile Knowledge 148; title: 10 Knowledge, Uncertainty and Contingency 150; title: Prospects or what Remains Open 151; title: Statistical Appendix 156; title: Notes 159; title: Bibliography 189; title: Subject Index 213; title: Name Index 216.