Changing Times - Changing Knowledge
- Post Industrial Society
- Employment
- Agriculture to service
- Before, as Marx said
- But manufacturing caused new needs
- Technology
- Service sector
- Can't be automated
- Robotics made wealth
- Newly wealthy needed new services
- Higher educaion
- Tourism
- Professionals become most important class
- Specialist knowledge
- Culture not class seperates
- Access to knowledge
- Bell
- Knowledge economy
- Bell wrong
- Info revolution was within manufacturing
- Biotechnology etc
- IT itself is important
- Knowledge replaced material
- Modern success is knowledge
- Eg. advertising
- Communication
- Key to global economy
- Consumption not production emphasis
- Fordism
- Culture of production
- Cultural turn
- Social relations
- Produce and disseminate knowledge
- Post fordism
- Flexibility
- Shorter runs
- Individualised
- Outsourcing
- Post modernism
- From post-fordism
- Meaning to consumption, not utility
- Desire and wish fulfilment
- Fantasy
- Fragmented identity
- Buying image and status
- Cash still needed to disseminate info
- Own experts now
- Authority mistrust?
- Consumer soverignty
- Liberalism
- Process of consumption
- Creation of desire
- Resistence
- Anti-capitalism
- Anarchist
- Situationalist
- Surrealist
- Wealth inequality
- Externalities
- Conspicuous spending
- Risk Society
- Too much knowledge
- Known/created risks
- New risks
- Politics transformed
- Non spatial risks
- Non perceivable risks
- Social science knowledge
- Socially constructed
- Context
- Methods
- Qualitative
- Quantitative
- Positivist
- Interpretavist
- Social change
- No grand unifying theory
- Gave frameworks for change
- Study itself causes change
- Can't be neutral
- Tools to explore
- Knowledge Society
- Knowledge focus for all change
- New Knowledge focus
- Qwicker
- Production
- Dissemination
- Who accesses?
- Specialised
- Power relations
- Social structures
- Outcomes
- New sources
- What actually counts as knowledge
- New orthadoxies
- Spirituality
- Medicine
- High/low barrier broken down
- Blurred experts
- Fame crosses over
- Still status/power issues
- How know when change occouring?
- Or which knowledge caused it?
- Social change
- Need more knowledge in jobs
- More knowledge needed in all things
- Childcare
- Shopping
- Fate of experts
- People more educated now
- Diversity
- New age
- ?Destabilising without?
- Not closed clubs now
- Uncertainties are now revealed?
- Media disseminates
- Expert failings understood now