The western devaluation of knowledge /

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The Western Devaluation of Knowledge is an exploration of the causes and effects of Western cultural changes that have evolved during the past half millennium of industrialization to diminish the value of knowledge as process. Western culture has developed a conceptualization and valuation of knowle...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Osburn, Charles B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Temas:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Values.
Culture.
Théorie de la connaissance.
epistemology.
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the ways and means of cultural change
  • Science, industry and the invention of a new worldview
  • Management as cultural authority
  • The cultural values of work and leisure
  • The strategy & spirit of capitalism
  • From material need to consumer culture
  • Higher learning as marketplace
  • Globalization of the tightening systems knot
  • Time to think
  • Balancing values through cultural change
  • Progress and myth
  • Knowledge devalued: summary & conclusions.

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