The Fragility of Modern Societies/ (Record no. 177876)
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| International Standard Book Number | 076193485 |
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| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 306.42 |
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| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Fragility of Modern Societies/ |
| Sub title | knowledge and risk in the information age |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Stehr,Nico |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | SAGE Publications Ltd, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2001. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 240 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction<br/>Excursus; Fragility<br/>1 The Texture of Modem Societies<br/>The Nation-state \ '<br/>Functional Differentiation _<br/>Rationalizing the Irrational<br/>Traditional and Modem Societies<br/>The Extension of Social Conduct<br/>2 Knowledge Societies<br/>The Emergence of Knowledge Societies<br/>The Society of Societies<br/>3 Knowledge about Knowledge<br/>Knowledge as a Capacity for Action<br/>Culture and Knowledge<br/>From Capacities to Realization<br/>Incremental Knowledge<br/>Knowledge and Information<br/>Limits to the Power of Knowledge<br/>Excursus: Forms of Capital<br/>4 Fusion through Dissolution<br/>The Disappearance of Human Agency<br/>A Surplus of Social Manipulation<br/>Moral Indifference, Power and Science<br/>Excursus: Herrschaft kraft Wissen<br/>5 Fragile Social Structures<br/>The World of Post-industrial Societies<br/>Collective and Individual Capacities to Act<br/>6 Governing Knowledge Societies<br/>The Stalled Society<br/>The Politics of Knowledge Societies<br/>Political Action and Knowledgeability<br/>7 Fragmentation and Homogenization of Social Life<br/>The Advent of Mass Societies<br/>The Globalization of the World<br/>Globalization in Historical Times<br/>The Divisions of the World<br/>The Reconfiguration of the Globe<br/>8 Policing Knowledge<br/>Knowledge Politics<br/>Regulating Knowledge .<br/>The Social Control of Knowledge Claims in Science<br/>The Societal Regulation of Knowledge<br/>The Virchow-Haeckel Controversy<br/>The Public and Science<br/>The Developments of Social Controls ,i<br/>Knowledge Hierarchies and Monopolies /<br/>9 Emancipation and Knowledge<br/>The Knowledge/Power Axis<br/>The New Risks of Knowledge<br/>Modem Social Movements<br/>Excursus: Knowing and Risks<br/>Criticism of the Formal Concept of Risk<br/>On the Difference between Decision-makers and those<br/>Affected by Risks of Decisions<br/>The Return of Uncertainty in Society<br/>Risk of Decision in the Context of Fragile Knowledge<br/>10 Knowledge, Uncertainty and Contingency<br/>Prospects or what Remains Open<br/>Statistical Appendix<br/>Nfites<br/>Bibliography<br/>Subject Index<br/>Name Index |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 29/08/2016 | 306.42 STE/F | P32887 | 13/07/2018 | 13/07/2018 | General Books |