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Experts The Knowledge and Power of Expertise
148 Pages
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Routledge
160 Pages
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Routledge
160 Pages
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Routledge
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In this book, Stehr and Grundmann outline the theoretical significance and practical importance of the growing stratum of experts, counsellors and advisors in contemporary society, and claim that the growing spectrum of knowledge-based occupations has led to the pluralisation of expertise.
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1. Introduction: The Growing Significance of Expertise in Modern Societies 2. Knowledge and Expertise 3. Who are the Knowledge Workers? 4. What Do Experts Do? 5. The Hierarchy of Expertise 6. Social Change and the Crisis of Scientific Expertise 7. Conclusion
Biography
Nico Stehr is Karl Mannheim Professor for Cultural Studies at Zeppelin University, Germany.
Reiner Grundmann is Reader in Sociology at the School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham.
