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Knowledge and social order

Knowledge and social order. JOÃO CARAÇA WAAS, Dubrovnik, Oct./Nov. 2016. evolving structures.../ changing social order…. water mills. wind. coal. oil. WORK IN PROGRESS. DO NOT QUOTE. evolving structures of knowledge…. ... leading to changing values & a separation of cultures.

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Knowledge and social order

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  1. Knowledge and social order JOÃO CARAÇA WAAS, Dubrovnik, Oct./Nov. 2016

  2. evolving structures.../ changing social order… water mills wind coal oil WORK IN PROGRESS. DO NOT QUOTE

  3. evolving structures of knowledge… ... leading to changing values & a separation of cultures

  4. evolving techno-economicstructures … Source: Freeman & Louçã, 2001 … forcedby the winds of creativedestruction

  5. … human nature is unchanged history does not repeat itself… • it is human ambitions and mistakes that repeat themselves generating cycles of human behaviour …

  6. the crisis of modernity showing the prevalence of : • uncertainty • complexity

  7. complexity means the impossiblity of separating: • the system from its context • the living being from its environment • the object from the measuring instrument

  8. ... a changing role for universities -- from the top of the education system -- to the base of the innovation system ... scholars and academics are invited into becoming entrepreneurs »loosing, of course, a significant part of their autonomy and of their academic initiative !!

  9. manydisruptivefactorsinthehorizon … • major crises weakening existing institutions → under way • a major war for resources → under way • a fading-out of the university system in Europe → not yet, but needs critical attention • a new techno-economic paradigm being first implemented in a non-Western country → not yet, but needs critical attention • a new set of values : no longer transform nature, but live together→ not yet, but devastating if not led by democratic beliefs if all this points to a crisis in the values of citizenship the answer must also be cultural: a new culture of global citizenship aiming at creating common good.

  10. … and today • mountingindividualism … • growinginequality … • increasingviolence … • pervasiveexclusion … willcapitalismcareabouteducation? curiosity? beauty? humanity? orjust, willitmakeuspayeven for ourrights?

  11. Society is the source of Power • Power must preserve fear, controlling the use of force, not to destroy the substance that nourishes it [consent by the people] • Power is exercised through violence [force] and construction of meanings [authority] • Power is relational, power relationships are framed by domination [i.e. the power embedded in the institutions of society]

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