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Within academia, the history of knowledge is the field covering the accumulated and known human knowledge constructed or discovered during human history and its historic forms, focus, accumulation, bearers, [1] impacts, mediations, distribution, applications, societal contexts, conditions [2] and methods of production.
A knowledge society generates, shares, and makes available to all members of the society knowledge that may be used to improve the human condition. [1] A knowledge society differs from an information society in that the former serves to transform information into resources that allow society to take effective action, while the latter only creates and disseminates the raw data. [2]
Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy is a ranked, bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal. It was established in 1987 and is published by Routledge in collaboration with the Society for Social Studies of Science and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. It provides a forum for ...
History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) is an international yearbook devoted to the history of knowledge. It was founded in 2021 and is published by De Gruyter. Its editors-in-chief are Charlotte A. Lerg (Munich), Johan Östling (Lund), and Jana Weiß (Münster). The yearbook is the successor of the journal of the same name, founded in 1999. [1]
In 2012, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Social Epistemology, Fuller reflected upon the history and the prospects of the field, including the need for social epistemology to re-connect with the larger issues of knowledge production first identified by Charles Sanders Peirce as ‘’cognitive economy’’ and nowadays often pursued ...
Social constructionism is a term used in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory.The term can serve somewhat different functions in each field; however, the foundation of this theoretical framework suggests various facets of social reality—such as concepts, beliefs, norms, and values—are formed through continuous interactions and negotiations among society's members, rather ...
Knowledge and Human Interests received positive reviews from Fred E. Jandt in the Journal of Applied Communication Research, [8] Thomas B. Farrell in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, [9] and the sociologist Anthony Giddens in the American Journal of Sociology, [10] a mixed review from the sociologist Steven Lukes in the British Journal of ...
It is a history of human thought covering over 5,000 years of philosophy, learning, and belief systems that surveys the key historical trends and breakthroughs connecting the globalizing human landscape of the 20th century all the way back to the scattered roots of human civilization in India, Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Greece, and Rome. [1] [2 ...