SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Information Overload, Stephen Hawking, Men...
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Week 9 master metaphor of our time (including sociology) Example once you are married, everything is split, but inheritance does not. People have more access to knowledge than ever before: knowledge explosions, technology and communications explosion, encyclopedia"s are not common anymore because they cannot update quickly. High motivation to be knowledgeable: social rewards for knowledge, for most of us, no, george bush and selling war on iraq, bush had a massive media presence and the media accepted his. Bush never said it, but whenever he mentioned 9/11, his next sentence involved saddam. Intelligence community no clear answer on weapons of mass destruction: bush exerts massive pressure on them that they were forced to conclude that there were weapons of mass destruction. Example of knowledge society: driven by technological revolution: ww1 information underload, gulf war on information overload. You had no idea what was going on no radio communication. Russian plane this week us picked up on explosion.
