Author

Contributions

  • Weingart, Peter - Contributor

Publication

2000 - Routledge, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

46,250 words, Guess

Page Count

185 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number00034468
  • LibraryThing6799027
  • Goodreads7248696

Classifications

  • LCCB840 .M23 2000

Description

"A striking characteristic of modern knowledge society is the rapid spread of certain ideas and concepts back and forth from everyday to scientific discourses, and across many different contexts of meaning. This book opens up a new road to the sudy of these 'dynamics of knowledge'." "Sociologists of knowledge and recently evolutionary theorists have offered explanations that either attribute social attention to particular ideas or shifts of meaning to the predominance of certain groups. Maasen and Weingart, however, offer a radical new explanation that explains knowledge dynamics by reference to the interaction between metaphors and discourses."--Jacket.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Routledge studies in social and political thought -- 26

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