Knowledge-Based Society?
Knowledge-Based Society?

Summary/Abstract: In order to plot and understand our present knowledge of society, to interpret the emerging social world it is not enough to analyze our knowledge through the competence of political and economic fields of power. It is indispensable to recognise the fact that our society is not organized according to traditional structures anymore, there is a new social structure emerging. Following the post capital, post industrial societies, a new type of society, moving on a completely different scale, the knowledge based global information society is emerging. Still the transformation of modern societies into knowledge societies bears several changes; as we live the age of the restriction and conquest of globalization. Instead of things, we are concerned about thoughts, we surround ourselves with symbolic goods in the place of real ones, not using a real marketplace, we shop in a non-place specific space. The fundamental problem is that knowledge societies are fragile entities, and such social institutions as literature suffer a great loss of prestige. The enormous amount and complexity of knew knowledge requires immense mental efforts. Will the human conscious -as a still debated concept-be capable of handling such a situation?

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