Knowledge As Culture
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Knowledge as Culture
Chapter INTRODUCTION -- The sociology of knowledge and culture -- chapter 1 WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE? -- chapter 2 TRUE AND FALSE KNOWLEDGES -- The Marxist tradition -- chapter 3 THE STRUCTURES OF KNOWLEDGES -- The French tradition -- chapter 4 SELF KNOWLEDGES -- The American tradition -- chapter 5 ENGENDERED KNOWLEDGE -- Feminism and science.
The Future of Knowledge & Culture
The Twentieth Century Was For The Most Part An Unfolding Of The Nineteenth, But The Twenty-First Century Is A Time Of Open-Ended Transition. This Remarkable Book Attempts To Provide A Cartography Of The Contemporary Global Framework Of Knowledge And Culture That Can Tell Us Where We Ve Arrived In The New Millennium, And Where We Are Headed. It Is Organized Around Some Of The Ideas, Products And Practices That Constitute Everyday Life. The Future Of Knowledge And Culture Is A Dictionary That Defies The Grid Of Conventionality. It Invites The Reader To Debate And Exchange Ideas With Some Of The Most Daring Thinkers In The World From Gustavo Esteva, The Scholar-Activist Associated With The Zapatistas, Writing On Grass Roots, To Ziauddin Sardar, Historian Of Science And Islamic Scholar, Exploring The Internet; From Douglas Lummis, Radically Rethinking Existing Definitions Of Democracy, To Manu Kothari And Lopa Mehta, Taking On Modern Medical Wisdom To Celebrate The Wisdom Of The Body, And Majid Rahnema, Who Stands The Conventional Idea Of Poverty On Its Head. Nothing Is Beyond The Scope Of This Dictionary. From Weapons Of Mass Destruction To Plague, Sacred Groves To The Philosophy Of Coca-Cola, Spin Doctors To Maps, Bollywood To Coronary Bypass, The Sixty-Five Entries Seem To Cover Only A Cross-Section Of Life, But Their Concern Is Nothing Less Than Altering An Entire Way Of Thinking That Has Become Ingrained In Us, Thanks To Our Education, Upbringing, Lazy Habits Of Thought And Fear Of Scepticism. This Book Challenges Us To Rethink The World Of The Urban, Middle-Class Certainties, Suggesting That An Open Spirit And The Ability To Live In Multiple, Often Contradictory Worlds May Be The Key To Our Survival In The New Century.
Knowledge Management Practices from a Culture Free and Culture Specific Perspektive
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: Good, University of East London, 37 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Cultural Wall "Recently a large global company set up a sophisticated website for employees in international subsidiaries to share knowledge. It had areas for chat, document storage, and messages from the company's leadership. Everything was clearly segmented so information could be looked up in many different ways. The designers expected people to load many documents onto the site. But even it was interesting, easy to use, and had many features, hardly anyone visited the website. Potential users said that they liked it, but just did not have time for it. The designers felt that they hit the 'cultural wall'." 1.1 The Influence of National Culture on Knowledge Management Today, most organisations are aware that managing their knowledge effectively is the only way to achieve sustainable competitive advantage (Drucker, 2001). Companies not securing systematically knowledge for later usage, risk to reinvent solutions and to incur unnecessary expense to relearn the same lessons (Tiwana, 1999). But in an increasingly global business context, companies not only need to understand the importance of knowledge management but also the importance of (national) cultural differences which influence knowledge management processes. Recognising cultural differences is an important step to anticipating potential threats as well as opportunities. ...]