SOC 3312 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Cybernetics, Models 1

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Status of knowledge is altered when society enters what is known as the post-industrial age while cultures enter the postmodern age which has been occurring since the 1950s. Scientific knowledge is a type of discourse, which has to do with language such as phenomenology and theories of linguistics, cybernetics, issues in communication etc. It has two specific functions: research (e. g. genetics owes itself to the theoretical paradigm of cybernectics, transmission of acquired learning (e. g. miniaturization and commercialization of machines which changes the way learning, is classified, exploited, made available and acquired). The nature of knowledge cannot survive without changing with these growing general transformations as learning is translated into quantities of information. Anything that is not within the body of knowledge and translatable will be abandoned. The relation that is present among those who use and supply knowledge is thus growing similar to the world of commodity producing. Knowledge is now the primary force of production.

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