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The New production of knowledge: the dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies
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Knowledge ProductionEducationNew ProductionContemporary SocietiesSocial SciencesScience StudyHistory Of ScienceKnowledge SocietyNew ModeNew ModerDistinguished TeamSociology Of KnowledgeCultureEpistemologyKnowledge ManagementScience And Technology StudiesAnthropologySocial InnovationScience Policy
Knowledge production is undergoing fundamental changes at the end of the twentieth century, shifting into a new mode that reforms institutions, disciplines, practices, and policies. The authors aim to identify features of the new mode of knowledge production—reflexivity, transdisciplinarity, heterogeneity—and demonstrate how these shape the evolving role of knowledge in social relations and science policy. They analyze how research and development in science and technology, along with social science and humanities, produce knowledge whose dissemination through education is reshaping its role in society.
In this provocative and broad-ranging work, a distinguished team of authors argues that the ways in which knowledge scientific, social and cultural is produced are undergoing fundamental changes at the end of the twentieth century. They claim that these changes mark a distinct shift into a new mode of knowledge production which is replacing or reforming established institutions, disciplines, practices and policies. Identifying a range of features of the new moder of knowledge production reflexivity, transdisciplinarity, heterogeneity the authors show the connections between these features and the changing role of knowledge in social relations. While the knowledge produced by research and development in science and technology (both public and industrial) is accorded central concern, the authors also outline the changing dimensions of social scientific and humanities knowledge and the relations between the production of knowledge and its dissemination through education. Placing science policy and scientific knowledge in its broader context within contemporary societies, this book will be essential reading for all those concerned with the changing nature of knowledge, with the social study of science, with educational systems, and with the relations between R&D and social, economic and technological development.