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1. Experts

   The Knowledge and Power of Expertise

   By Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann

   Series: Key Ideas

   In this book, Stehr and Grundmann outline the theoretical significance and practical importance of the growing stratum of experts, counsellors and advisors in contemporary society, and claim that the growing spectrum of knowledge-based occupations has led to the pluralisation of expertise. As...

   Published February 22nd 2011 by Routledge
2. Society

   Edited by Reiner Grundmann, Nico Stehr

   Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

   What is the nature of our current societies? Do we see a clash of civilizations, or the end of history? The advent of globalization, or the birth of the network society? Are we witnessing the emergence of a risk society, or the advent of the knowledge society? More fundamentally, is ‘society’ an...

   Published December 14th 2008 by Routledge
3. Knowledge

   Edited by Reiner Grundmann, Nico Stehr

   Series: Critical Concepts

   Knowledge is of crucial, and growing importance in social, political and economic relations in modern society. The range and variety of available knowledge dramatically enlarges the available options of social action. This five volume collection brings together a broad array of contributions from...

   Published June 22nd 2005 by Routledge