Knowledge Society and contemporary
world
Introduction
Knowledge
society has become household term. But deep transformative current for
production of knowledge, its management and dissemination needed to be
understood. Knowledge accumulated by mind-body experiences of human beings, day
by day, private experiences by private experiences. any society is itself exist
on some kind of knowledge in form of culture which consists recognised common aspects
of society like art(sculpture,dance,music,painting,architecture),education,custom,norms,beliefs,ideas.
How
knowledge society evolved
-If human took their sense experiences at face value,
they would be confronted by unintelligible mass of impressions – of colors,
lights, sounds, smells, feelings and tastes –that were meaningless. In order to
overcome this problem, humans begin to organise the world around him into
phenomena. For example a distinction may be made between animate and inanimate
things and so on. Further differentiation and categorisation of knowledge made
necessity to codify it.
- Information accumulated and used simultaneously but
when the concept of sell of knowledge production and distribution come in
vogue, knowledge society manifested.
- Now, We are witnessing the emergence of a need for
clarification of aims of knowledge society as a project of society.
Comparison
among information society (past), knowledge society and intelligent society
(future)-
An information society is a society where the creation,
distribution, uses, integration and manipulation of information is a
significant economic, political, and cultural activity. In knowledge society,
information is treated as commodity having economic value. Here Knowledge is
created, organised ,processed and analysed with specialised skills. Created
knowledge is compartmentalised for different sectors of economy and social life
with particular purposes. Institutionalization of knowledge processing, knowledge
creation and dissemination is prime in knowledge society. It is harbinger of a
society which will be oriented to full use of all potentialities of available knowledge
which we can call intelligent society.
Welfare
state, Neoliberal democratic regime and Knowledge society
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Equality in knowledge access, sharing and
application
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Role of state in facilitating open and free
environment of knowledge sharing and governing network through legislation,
capacity building and infrastructure development.
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Skill development- embed knowledge in ICT
network
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Massive open online courses is the best way for
dissemination of educational content economically to larger populous.
Knowledge society and techno -world economy
Any society seek progress in
contemporary world through the use of technology and applied science.All basic
infrastructure communication, transportation,electricity and housing all depend
upon the technological developmental stage where industrialization and
urbanization is manifestation of the society moving towards the solid knowledge
based scientific world.
Knowledge society and homogenising culture
Knowledge itself is search for universal
facts, ordered phenomenon and all accepted concepts and explanations. In this
case, internet playing a great role to bring all societies and culture at common
platform of interaction. Definitely a amalgam of cultures and values will be
more and more throughout the world like in language, clothing, food habits and
other aspects of life. For the time being, we are seeing increased reflective
and reflexive activities by local forces against global homogenisation. It is
usually called Anti-Globalization wave.
Knowledge society and promise to change the world
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How the change come ? orthodoxy
,parochialism,obscurantism,primodialism and conservativeness is inevitable
after a period of time where society became stagnant.then the new ideas bring
newness and creativity in society .
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Global stakes in application of knowledge
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Moral and ethical reasoning based on knowledge
Development and
knowledge society debate-
-Are we progressing
when we are transitioning from previous structures and form of societies to
knowledge based society?
-Is knowledge society
is novel and unprecedented idea
-Human rights and
freedom enshrined into laws is not the whole story of human progress rather
human capabilities must be at place. It means capacity of the society to
exercise the laws in practice of which possibility is less imagined in a
society completely transformed in knowledge society.
-Overemphasising and
over relying upon knowledge considering it panacea
