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  • Paul F. Lazarsfeld, An Empirical Theory of Action

    Collected Writings

    Edited by Christian Fleck, Nico Stehr ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a critical introduction to the key writings of Paul Lazarsfeld (1901-1976), edited by two prominent sociologists. It includes Lazarsfeld's early work on youth and occupation, which shows the intellectual influences of Austro-Marxism, academic psychology, and the philosophy of the Vienna Circle, and how they were applied to specific social issues. They also show how Lazarsfeld's ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The World We Have Created

    Climate, Democracy and Knowledge

    by Nico Stehr ...
    Series series A New Order of Social Things
    Addressing the complex interplay between climate change, democratic governance, and scientific knowledge in the Anthropocene era, this book focuses on how political systems respond to the global ecological crisis and to what extent they are structurally capable of doing so.The World We Have Created: Climate, Democracy and Knowledge details how the de-democratization of ecological decision-making ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Society and Knowledge in a Turbulent Era

    by Nico Stehr ...
    Series series In a Turbulent Era series
    Society and Knowledge in a Turbulent Era explores the pivotal role of knowledge in contemporary society. Nico Stehr emphasizes its importance in social theory, economic systems and global challenges, particularly in the context of the knowledge economy and knowledge capitalism.Adopting a diagnostic theoretical approach to analyze rapidly changing societal conditions, Stehr argues that knowledge is ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A World Made of Knowledge

    Pathways into the Knowledge Society

    by Nico Stehr, Alexander Ruser ...
    More than three decades after Gernot Böhme and Nico Stehr began to explore modern 'knowledge societies', the concept has transformed sociological inquiry into the dynamics of contemporary society. But even a quick internet search shows that the term is not only limited to academic circles. Moreover, international bodies such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Science in Society

    Climate Change and Climate Policies

    by Nico Stehr, Hans von Storch ...
    Hans von Storch and Nico Stehr, the authors of this anthology, reflect on the popular and scientific perception and construction of the phenomenon of climate, climate change, climate policy and the impact of climate on society. In the early 1990s, the authors encountered notable resistance to the idea of climate change, especially as they wrote about the urgent need for societal adaptation. ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

  • Knowledge Capitalism

    by Nico Stehr ...
    In his newest book, Stehr builds on his classic book Knowledge Societies (1994) to expand the concept toward one of knowledge capitalism for a now, much-changed era. It is not only because of the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic that we are living in a new epoch; it is the idea that modern societies increasingly constitute comprehensive knowledge societies under intensive capitalism, whereby the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Modern German Sociology

    Edited by Volker Meja, Dieter Misgeld, Nico Stehr ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1987 Modern German Sociology is a collection of essays containing sociological work published in German since World War II. Included are sections from such out-standing figures as Theodor Adorno, Alexander Mitscherlich, Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann, and Ralf Darendorf. The editors have arranged the essays into five sections that express their view of the chief aspects of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Society And Climate: Transformations And Challenges

    by Nico Stehr, Amanda Machin ...
    Climate has for a long time been a taken-for-granted background against which social, political and economic interactions have taken place. But this taken-for-granted background is cleaving. It is becoming hard to ignore the potential repercussions of a changing climate, and the uneven impact of certain forms of human society and energy cultures that risk undermining their own environmental ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Money

    A Theory of Modern Society

    by Nico Stehr, Dustin Voss ...
    Since the publication of Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money more than a century ago, social science has primarily considered money a medium of exchange. This new book treats money as a more inclusive social concept that has profoundly influenced the emergence of modern society. Money is also a moral and political category. It communicates prices and thus embodies innumerable evaluations and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Information, Power, and Democracy

    Liberty is a Daughter of Knowledge

    by Nico Stehr ...
    The link between liberty and knowledge is neither static nor simple. Until recently the mutual support between knowledge, science, democracy and emancipation was presupposed. Recently, however, the close relationship between democracy and knowledge has been viewed with skepticism. The growing societal reliance on specialized knowledge often appears to actually undermine democracy. Is it that we do ... Read more

    $130.39 USD

  • Biotechnology

    Between Commerce and Civil Society

    by Nico Stehr ...
    "While other books have addressed isolated aspects of recent developments in the biomedical sciences, Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society is the first book tgo engage with the full range of biotechnology's implications for social science and for society at large." -Professor Volker MejaNew scientific knowledge is no longer merely the key to unlocking the secrets of nature and society ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Who Owns Knowledge?

    Knowledge and the Law

    by Bernd Weiler, Nico Stehr ...
    Who Owns Knowledge? explores the emerging linkages between the extension of knowledge and the law. It anticipates that the legal system will not only be called upon to adjudicate in matters of creative minds, but will be expected to do so to an ever increasing degree.Linkages between the legal system and knowledge are bound to multiply in modern societies. Ironically, while increasingly relying on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD