During the last decades, knowledge has attracted the greatest attention in a growing number of disciplines, generating a deluge of literature. However, it has yet to become the object of a fully established sociology of knowledge able to fulfil the challenges of present society, often called the knowledge-society. We posit knowledge as a basis on which to model social life, proposing a three-dimensional approach to social reality (i.e., individuals, social aggregates, knowledge). Looking at knowledge as at a cooperative good and a communicative process, we then apply the same three dimensions to knowledge itself as a sociological production, ending up with a typology encompassing three knowledge families (intellectual, practical and objectified) and three ways of access (direct personal knowing, indirect social acquaintance, externally recognized and personally introjected acknowledge). Steps towards a theory of knowledge-society are then proposed

Cerroni, A. (2018). Steps towards a theory of the knowledge-society. SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMATION, 57(2), 1-22 [10.1177/0539018418767069].

Steps towards a theory of the knowledge-society

Cerroni, A
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2018

Abstract

During the last decades, knowledge has attracted the greatest attention in a growing number of disciplines, generating a deluge of literature. However, it has yet to become the object of a fully established sociology of knowledge able to fulfil the challenges of present society, often called the knowledge-society. We posit knowledge as a basis on which to model social life, proposing a three-dimensional approach to social reality (i.e., individuals, social aggregates, knowledge). Looking at knowledge as at a cooperative good and a communicative process, we then apply the same three dimensions to knowledge itself as a sociological production, ending up with a typology encompassing three knowledge families (intellectual, practical and objectified) and three ways of access (direct personal knowing, indirect social acquaintance, externally recognized and personally introjected acknowledge). Steps towards a theory of knowledge-society are then proposed
Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico
Knowledge artifacts, Knowledge-society, Practical knowledge, Objectified knowledge, Knowledge circulation, Knowledge capital
English
11-apr-2018
2018
57
2
1
22
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Cerroni, A. (2018). Steps towards a theory of the knowledge-society. SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMATION, 57(2), 1-22 [10.1177/0539018418767069].
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