Osburn, C: Western Devaluation of Knowledge
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The Western Devaluation of Knowledge is an exploration of the causes and effects of Western cultural changes that have evolved during the past half millennium of industrialization to diminish the value of knowledge as process. Western culture has developed a conceptualization and valuation of knowledge that reverses the traditional knowledge continuum that connects data (information) to understanding. As a result, we displace the subjective and human features of knowledge with automated systems that conforms with information and devalues the knowledge process.
This book explains this change as a result of the industrial influences that began to gain strength in the 15th century and continued on that path through today's economic and cultural globalization. The author shows that science and technology, while bringing good on many fronts have also:
This book explains this change as a result of the industrial influences that began to gain strength in the 15th century and continued on that path through today's economic and cultural globalization. The author shows that science and technology, while bringing good on many fronts have also:
PrefaceChapter 1. Introduction: the Ways and Means of Cultural ChangeChapter 2. Science, Industry and the Invention of a New WorldviewChapter 3. Management as Cultural AuthorityChapter 4. The Cultural Values of Work and LeisureChapter 5. The Strategy & Spirit of CapitalismChapter 6. From Material Need to Consumer CultureChapter 7. Higher Learning as MarketplaceChapter 8. Globalization of the Tightening Systems KnotChapter 9. Time to ThinkChapter 10. Balancing Values through Cultural ChangeChapter 11. Progress and MythChapter 12. Knowledge Devalued: Summary & ConclusionsBibliography
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