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Experts : the Knowledge and Power of Expertise.
In this book, Stehr and Grundmann outline the theoretical significance and practical importance of the growing stratum of experts, counsellors and advisors in contemporary society, and claim that the growing spectrum of knowledge-based occupations has led to the pluralisation of expertise. As decisi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The growing significance of expertise in modern societies
- 1. Knowledge and expertise
- Knowledge as capacity to act
- What are experts
- Professional ethics and institutions
- 2. Who are the knowledge workers
- The proportion of knowledge workers in the workforce
- Scientific and professional knowledge
- Professional jobs and experts
- Intellectuals and experts
- Are experts a new class
- 3. What do experts do
- Experts are mediators
- Experts reduce complexity and create trust
- Experts create legitimacy
- Experts define situations and set priorities
- Knowledge and power
- 4. The hierarchy of expertise
- The functions of traditional knowledge
- Marginal and dominant knowledge
- Excursus: The financial crisis and the environmental crisis
- 'Genuine' and 'apparent' expertise
- Experts, technocracy and democracy
- 5. Social change and the crisis of scientific expertise
- The growth of knowledge
- Self-made expertise
- The crisis of scientific expertise
- Scientific knowledge
- Experts as actors.