Knowledge Society, History of

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Stehr, Nico

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Knowledge Society, History of, Hrsg: James D. Wright

Stehr, Nico: Knowledge Society, History of, in: James D. Wright (Hrsg.): International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2. Auflage, Oxford, Elsevier, 2015: 105-110 (Volume 13): http://doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.03160-3 (download: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080970868031603) .

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Past theories of society, choose to designate, quite properly, those attributes of social relations that are constitutive of the specific nature of that society as identifying labels. Thus, such names as ‘capitalist’ society or ‘industrial’ society were created. For the same reasons, the now-emerging form of society represents a ‘knowledge’ society because the constitutive mechanism or the identity of modern society increasingly is driven by ‘knowledge’. Knowledge has become the central economic resource and source of additional economic growth. The article on knowledge society explores the emergence, development, and current state of theorizing about modern societies as knowledge societies.

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