Knowledge, communication and creativity / edited by Arnaud Sales and Marcel Fournier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sales, Arnaud.

Fournier, Marcel, 1945-

Series:

Sage studies in international sociology ; 56.

Sage studies in international sociology ; 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Creative ability.

Telecommunication--Social aspects.

Telecommunication.

Physical Description:

xii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, 2007.

Contents:

1 Knowledge, Communication, Reflexive Creativity and Social Change / Arnaud Sales, Marcel Fournier, Yan Senechal 3

Section 2 Knowledge and Social Change in Contemporary Societies

2 Modern Societies as Knowledge Societies / Nico Stehr 31

3 Knowledge and Societal Change: Institutional Coordination and the Evolution of Organizational Populations / Jerald Hage 43

Section 3 New Information Technologies and Communication, Communities and Public Sphere

4 Mobilities, Networks and Communities / John Urry 67

5 Information Technology and the International Public Sphere / Craig Calhoun 77

6 Creativity in an Orwellian Key: A Sceptic's Guide to the Post-Sociological Imaginary / Steve Fuller 97

Section 4 Creativity and Communication in the Production of Knowledge

7 Between Science and Rhetoric: A Recurrent Debate on the Role of Communication and Creativity in the Definition of Knowledge / Philippe Breton 115

8 High Cognitive Complexity and the Making of Major Scientific Discoveries / J. Rogers Hollingsworth 129

9 The Creativity of Intellectual Networks and the Struggle over Attention Space / Randall Collins 156

10 Evaluating Creative Minds: The Assessment of Originality in Peer Review / Michele Lamont, Marcel Fournier, Joshua Guetzkow, Gregoire Mallard, Roxane Bernier 166.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780761943068

0761943064

OCLC:

77796633