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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Tables
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Classical sociological 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
• Notes
• 3 The knowledge of the powerful1
• 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
• Notes
• 4 Non-knowledge1
• 4.1 Sigmund Freud and Friedrich August von Hayek
• 4.2 Observing non-knowledge
• 4.3 Non-knowledge as a myth?
• 4.4 Lack of knowledge
• 4.5 Ignorance
• 4.6 The division of knowledge and information
• 4.7 Knowledge gaps
• 4.8 Non-knowledge about non-knowledge
• Notes
• 5 Policing knowledge
• 5.1 The self-realization of knowledge
• 5.2 The self-protection of knowledge
• 5.3 Superfluous knowledge
• Notes
• 6 Forms of knowledge
• 6.1 Everyday knowledge
• 6.2 The power of everyday knowledge
• The compartmentalization of the lifeworld
• Mythological and scientific truths
• Organized knowledge and traditional knowledge
• Science and ignorance
• 6.3 Indigenous or traditional knowledge
• 6.4 Tacit knowledge
• Notes
• 7 Global knowledge1
• 7.1 Basic reflections on global knowledge
• 7.2 Global knowledge worlds11
• 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 knowledge32
• 7.7 The project of worldwide worlds of knowledge, and the doubts about its likelihood
• Notes
• 8 Digital worlds and knowledge/information1
• 8.1 Information, communication and technology
• 8.2 Societal communication and shared knowledge
• 8.3 Analyzing the ubiquity of media: mediatization
• 8.4 New media, old media and the hybrid media system
• 8.5 ICTs, surveillance and knowledge
• 8.6 Communication, media and knowledge
• Notes
• 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
• Notes
• 10 The price of knowledge
• 10.1 Human capital7
• 10.2 Symbolic and knowledge capital
• 10.3 Patents20
• 10.4 Taxation34
• Notes
• 11 The benefits of knowledge
• 11.1 The distribution of knowledge
• 11.2 Knowledge, power and participation
• 11.3 Knowledge societies5
• Early notions of the knowledge society
• Social scientific conceptions of the knowledge society
• Contemporary theories of the knowledge society
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index