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Das gleichzeitige Streben nach N he und Abstand sorgt f r eines der st rksten Spannungsverh ltnisse unserer Zeit. Die Fliehkr fte der Moderne vergr ern unsere Distanzen zu allem Nat rlichen, Pers nlichen, Kleinr umigen und unmittelbar Erfahrbarem. Doch leben wir in Zeiten der Globalisierung und...
Read More about Positive Distanz?: Multidisziplinäre Annäherungen an Den Wahren Abstand Und Das Abstandwahren in Theorie Und PRAXIS (Zu Schriften der Zeppelin Universit #1)Die Deutsche B rgergesellschaft ist in Bewegung. Es wird ein neues Gesellschaftsspiel gespielt. Dieses Spiel ist gekennzeichnet von neuensozialen Bewegungen im Modus des Protests, neuen sozialen Unternehmen im Modus der Produktion und neuen Verwaltungsformen im Modus der Partizipation. Der...
Read More about Bürger. Macht. Staat?: Neue Formen Gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe, Teilnahme Und Arbeitsteilung (Zu Schriften der Zeppelin Universit)The original essays collected here under the general title of The Knowledge Society were first commissioned for a conference held in the late fall of 1984 at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, West Germany. The conference in Darmstadt saw a larger number of contribu- tions presented than could be...
Read More about The Knowledge Society: The Growing Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Social Relations (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook #10)The original essays collected here under the general title of The Knowledge Society were first commissioned for a conference held in the late fall of 1984 at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, West Germany. The conference in Darmstadt saw a larger number of contribu tions presented than could be...
Read More about The Knowledge Society: The Growing Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Social Relations (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook #10)This anthology of studies by the eminent geographer and climate scientist Eduard Br ckner (1862-1927) on anthropogenic climate change and the social, political and economic impact of climate variations on societies in historical times, assembles his pioneering work in English for the first time. The...
Read More about Eduard Brückner - The Sources and Consequences of Climate Change and Climate Variability in Historical TimesKarl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia has been a profoundly provocative book. The debate about politics and social knowledge that was spawned by its original publication in 1929 attracted the most promising younger scholars, some of whom shaped the thought of several generations. The book became a...
Read More about Knowledge and Politics (RLE Social Theory): The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia has been a profoundly provocative book. The debate about politics and social knowledge that was spawned by its original publication in 1929 attracted the most promising younger scholars, some of whom shaped the thought of several generations. The book became a...
Read More about Knowledge and Politics (RLE Social Theory): The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)Knowledge Capitalism expands our understanding of capitalism and how modern societies increasingly constitute comprehensive knowledge societies, whereby knowledge through national and international law is the lever that enables the digital giants to have significant effects on the social structure...
Read More about Knowledge CapitalismAs we move through our modern world, the phenomenon we call knowledge is always involved. Whether we talk of know-how, technology, innovation, politics or education, it is the concept of knowledge that ties them all together. But despite its ubiquity as a modern trope we seldom encounter knowledge...
Read More about Knowledge: Is Knowledge Power? (Key Ideas)Social surveillance and regulation of knowledge will be an important issue in the future. This work predicts that such concerns will create a new political field, namely, knowledge policy, which will entail regulating dissemination of the anticipated results of rapidly increasing knowledge.
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