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Experts : the knowledge and power of expertise / Nico Stehr and Reiner Grundmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stehr, Nico.
- Series:
- Key ideas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Specialists.
- Expertise.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 146 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Contents:
- 1 Knowledge and expertise 1
- Knowledge as capacity to act 2
- What are experts? 8
- Professional ethics and institutions 13
- 2 Who are the knowledge workers? 16
- The proportion of knowledge workers in the workforce 17
- Scientific and professional knowledge 21
- Professional jobs and experts 24
- Intellectuals and experts 28
- Are experts a new class? 34
- 3 What do experts do? 39
- Experts are mediators 39
- Experts reduce complexity and create trust 41
- Experts create legitimacy 45
- Experts define situations and set priorities 46
- Knowledge and power 50
- 4 The hierarchy of expertise 61
- The functions of traditional knowledge 61
- Marginal and dominant knowledge 70
- Excursus: the financial crisis and the environmental crisis 73
- 'Genuine' and 'apparent' expertise 79
- Experts, technocracy and democracy 83
- 5 Social change and the crisis of scientific expertise 93
- The growth of knowledge 94
- Self-made expertise 99
- The crisis of scientific expertise 104
- Scientific knowledge 108
- Experts as actors 115.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415608039
- 0415608031
- 9780203829646
- 0203829646
- OCLC:
- 666242752
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