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