Macroeconomics

Context (archaeology)

Engineering

Philosophy

Biology

Dynamics (music)

Pedagogy

Economics

Computer science

Reflexivity

Knowledge society

Paleontology

Knowledge production

Political science

Transdisciplinarity

Epistemology

Sociology

Knowledge management

Production (economics)

Knowledge economy

Engineering ethics

Sociology of scientific knowledge

Social science

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In this provocative and broad-ranging work, a distinguished team of authors argues that the ways in which knowledge  scientific, social and cultural  is produced are undergoing fundamental changes at the end of the twentieth century. They claim that these changes mark a distinct shift into a new mode of knowledge production which is replacing or reforming established institutions, disciplines, practices and policies. Identifying a range of features of the new moder of knowledge production  reflexivity, transdisciplinarity, heterogeneity  the authors show the connections between these features and the changing role of knowledge in social relations. While the knowledge produced by research and development in science and technology (both public and industrial) is accorded central concern, the authors also outline the changing dimensions of social scientific and humanities knowledge and the relations between the production of knowledge and its dissemination through education. Placing science policy and scientific knowledge in its broader context within contemporary societies, this book will be essential reading for all those concerned with the changing nature of knowledge, with the social study of science, with educational systems, and with the relations between R&D and social, economic and technological development.

The New production of knowledge: the dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies