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Author Burke, Peter, 1937-

Title A social history of knowledge, II. From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia / Peter Burke
Published Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 359 pages) : illustrations
Contents Gathering knowledges -- Analysing knowledges -- Disseminating knowledges -- Employing knowledges -- Losing knowledges -- Dividing knowledges -- Geographies of knowledge -- Sociologies of knowledge -- Chronologies of knowledge
Summary "The book is divided into 3 parts. The first argues that activities which appear to be timeless - gathering knowledge, analysing, disseminating and employing it - are in fact time-bound and take different forms in different periods and places. The second part tries to counter the tendency to write a triumphalist history of the 'growth' of knowledge by discussing losses of knowledge and the price of specialization. The third part offers geographical, sociological and chronological overviews, contrasting the experience of centres and peripheries and arguing that each of the main trends of the period - professionalization, secularization, nationalization, democratization, etc, coexisted and interacted with its opposite."--Publisher
Analysis kunnskapssosiologi
historie
kunnskap
intellektuelle
akademikere
utvikling
kronologi
leksika
wikipedia
demokratisering
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-334) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Knowledge, Sociology of -- History
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Kunnskapssosiologi.
Historisk framstilling.
Kunnskap.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0745659616
9780745659619
9780745675701
0745675700
Other Titles Social history of knowledge 2
From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia