The Knowledge Society: The Growing Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Social Relations.

Abstract

I The Design of Knowledge Society.- The Growing Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Social Relations.- Finite Human Capacities and the Pattern of Social Stratification in a Knowledge Society.- II The Social Role of Men of Knowledge.- Demarcation as a Strategy of Exclusion: Philosophers and Sophists.- Scientists Protect Their Cognitive Authority: The Status Degradation Ceremony of Sir Cyril Burt.- The Reproduction of Objective Knowledge: Common Sense Reasoning in Medical Decision Making.- III Processes of Scientification.- The Scientification of Police Work.- The Scientification of Architecture.- Knowledge Form and Scientific Community: Early Experimental Biology and the Marine Biological Laboratory.