SOCA01H3 Lecture : SOCA01 - Week 9.docx
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Soca01 week 9 november 8, 2012. There is more knowledge than ever before: knowledge explosions. People have more access to knowledge than ever before: technology and communications explosion. High motivation to be knowledgeable: social rewards for knowledge. May be awarded, but only in a limited sense. Occupationally, it may be very important to be knowledgeable. System level changes individual level changes system- level consequences. System level changes: satisfy basic needs, rising level of education, expansion of communication. System level consequences: rise of elite challenges. We are more likely to be controlled or manipulated by elives: george bush and selling war on iraq. Example of knowledge society: driven by technological revolution. Gulf war on information overload: surveillance, targeting and communication in real time . Spy satellites can read the license plate of your car . 1960s: more scientific papers published than all previous human history. Increased social distribution of ignorance: quantitative necessity, social choices. Doctors should keep up lastest treatments: cannot.
