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• catalog contributor b12177331.
• catalog created "2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
• catalog description "1. The Texture of Modern Societies -- The Nation-state -- Functional Differentiation -- Rationalizing the Irrational -- Traditional and Modern Societies -- The Extension of Social Conduct -- 2. Knowledge Societies -- The Emergence of Knowledge Societies -- The Society of Societies -- 3. Knowledge about Knowledge -- Knowledge as a Capacity for Action -- Culture and Knowledge -- From Capacities to Realization -- Incremental Knowledge -- Knowledge and Information -- Limits to the Power of Knowledge -- 4. Fusion through Dissolution -- The Disappearance of Human Agency -- A Surplus of Social Manipulation -- Moral Indifference, Power and Science -- 5. Fragile Social Structures -- The World of Post-industrial Societies -- Collective and Individual Capacities to Act -- 6. Governing Knowledge Societies -- The Stalled Society -- The Politics of Knowledge Societies -- Political Action and Knowledgeability -- 7. Fragmentation and Homogenization of Social Life -- The Advent of Mass Societies -- The Globalization of the World -- Globalization in Historical Times -- The Divisions of the World -- The Reconfiguration of the Globe -- 8. Policing Knowledge -- Knowledge Politics -- Regulating Knowledge -- The Social Control of Knowledge Claims in Science -- The Societal Regulation of Knowledge -- The Virchow-Haeckel Controversy -- The Public and Science -- The Developments of Social Controls -- Knowledge Hierarchies and Monopolies -- 9. Emancipation and Knowledge -- The Knowledge/Power Axis -- The New Risks of Knowledge -- Modern Social Movements -- Criticism of the Formal Concept of Risk -- On the Difference between Decision-makers and those Affected by Risks of Decisions -- The Return of Uncertainty in Society -- Risk of Decision in the Context of Fragile Knowledge -- 10. Knowledge, Uncertainty and Contingency -- Prospects or what Remains Open.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-202) and index.".
• catalog extent "xi, 221 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Fragility of modern societies.".
• catalog identifier "0761953485".
• catalog identifier "0761953493 (PBK.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Fragility of modern societies.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "2001.".
• catalog language "eng ger".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London : SAGE,".
• catalog relation "Fragility of modern societies.".
• catalog subject "306.42 21".
• catalog subject "Civilization, Modern 1950-".
• catalog subject "HM651 .S74 2001".
• catalog subject "Individualism.".
• catalog subject "Knowledge, Sociology of.".
• catalog subject "Power (Social sciences)".
• catalog subject "Risk Sociological aspects.".
• catalog subject "Social change.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The Texture of Modern Societies -- The Nation-state -- Functional Differentiation -- Rationalizing the Irrational -- Traditional and Modern Societies -- The Extension of Social Conduct -- 2. Knowledge Societies -- The Emergence of Knowledge Societies -- The Society of Societies -- 3. Knowledge about Knowledge -- Knowledge as a Capacity for Action -- Culture and Knowledge -- From Capacities to Realization -- Incremental Knowledge -- Knowledge and Information -- Limits to the Power of Knowledge -- 4. Fusion through Dissolution -- The Disappearance of Human Agency -- A Surplus of Social Manipulation -- Moral Indifference, Power and Science -- 5. Fragile Social Structures -- The World of Post-industrial Societies -- Collective and Individual Capacities to Act -- 6. Governing Knowledge Societies -- The Stalled Society -- The Politics of Knowledge Societies -- Political Action and Knowledgeability -- 7. Fragmentation and Homogenization of Social Life -- The Advent of Mass Societies -- The Globalization of the World -- Globalization in Historical Times -- The Divisions of the World -- The Reconfiguration of the Globe -- 8. Policing Knowledge -- Knowledge Politics -- Regulating Knowledge -- The Social Control of Knowledge Claims in Science -- The Societal Regulation of Knowledge -- The Virchow-Haeckel Controversy -- The Public and Science -- The Developments of Social Controls -- Knowledge Hierarchies and Monopolies -- 9. Emancipation and Knowledge -- The Knowledge/Power Axis -- The New Risks of Knowledge -- Modern Social Movements -- Criticism of the Formal Concept of Risk -- On the Difference between Decision-makers and those Affected by Risks of Decisions -- The Return of Uncertainty in Society -- Risk of Decision in the Context of Fragile Knowledge -- 10. Knowledge, Uncertainty and Contingency -- Prospects or what Remains Open.".
• catalog title "The fragility of modern societies : knowledge and risk in the information age / Nico Stehr.".
• catalog type "text".