Knowledge

Preface

Introduction

1. Classical Conceptions of Knowledge

2. Knowledge about Knowledge

2.1. Attributes of Knowledge

2.2. Knowledge as a Capacity to Act

2.3. Knowledge and Information

2.4. Practical Knowledge

2.5. Additional Knowledge

2.6. The Uneven Development of Knowledge

2.7. The Limits of the Growth of Knowledge

2.8. A Sociological Concept of Knowledge and its Context

3. The Knowledge of the Powerful

3.1. Knowledge is Power and Power is Knowledge

3.2. The Iron Law of Oligarchy

3.3. Knowledge/Power

3.4. The Global Class

4. Non-knowledge

4.1. Sigmund Freud and Friedrich August von Hayek

4.2. Observations about Non-Knowledge

4.3. Non-knowledge as a Myth?

4.4. Non-knowledge

4.5. Ignorance

4.6. Knowledge Gaps

4.7. Non-knowledge about Non-knowledge

5. Policing Knowledge

5.1. The Self-realization of Knowledge

5.2. The Self-protection of Knowledge

5.3. Knowledge becomes Superfluous

6. Forms of Knowledge

6.1. Everyday Knowledge

6.2. The Power of Everyday Knowledge

6.3. Indigenous or Traditional Knowledge

6.4. Tacit Knowledge

7. Global Knowledge

7.1. Basic Reflections on Global Knowledge

7.2. Global Knowledge Worlds

7.3. Structures of Global Knowledge Spaces

7.4. Forms of Global Knowledge Worlds

7.5. Attributes of Knowledge that Promote Globalization

7.6. Limits to the Globalization of Knowledge

7.7. The Project of Worldwide Worlds of Knowledge, and the Doubts about its Likelihood

8. Digital Worlds and Knowledge/Information

8.1. Information, Communication and Technology

8.2. Societal Communication and Shared Knowledge

8.3. Analyzing the Ubiquity of the Media: Mediatization

8.4. New Media, Old Media and the Hybrid Media System

8.5. ITCâs, Surveillance and Knowledge

8.6. Communication, Media and Knowledge

9. Functions of Knowledge

9.1. Knowledge as Power and Authority

9.2. The Power of Ideas

9.3. Knowledge and the Economy

9.4. Knowledge as Property and Public Good

10. The Price of Knowledge

10.1. Human Capital

10.2. Symbolic Capital

10.3. Patents

10.4. Taxation

11. The Benefits of Knowledge

11.1. The Distribution of Knowledge

11.2 Knowledge, Power and Participation

11.3. The knowledge society

Bibliography

Index