Nico Stehr
Encyclopedia
Nico Stehr is "Karl Mannheim Professor for Cultural Studies" at the Zeppelin University
in Friedrichshafen / Germany and Founding Director of the European Center for Sustainability Research.
He received a PhD in sociology
from the University of Oregon
in 1970. Between 1967 and 2000, he taught at American and Canadian universities. His last appointment in Canada was that of fellow in Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study der University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. During the academic year 2002-2003 he was Paul-Lazarsfeld-Professor (a visiting appointment) at the University of Vienna. He is Senior Research Fellow of the Sustainable Development Research Institute, University of British Columbia
, Vancouver, British Columbia, a fellow of the Fellow the Center for Advanved Study of the Humanities, Essen, Germany, editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology (until 2006) and a Fellow of the Royal Society (Canada).
His research interests center on the transformation of modern societies into knowledge societies and associated developments in different social institutions of modern society (e.g. science, politics, and the economy) and is focused on these field of attention:
Knowledge
: Knowledge is not merely a model of reality but a model for reality. Knowledge represents a capacity to act.
Knowledge and information
: The substance of information primarily concerns the properties of products or outcomes while the stuff of knowledge refers to the qualities of process or inputs.
Post-Industrial society: Innovation are increasingly derivative from research and development; there is a new relation between science and technology because of the centrality of theoretical knowledge, and the weight of the society -- measured by a larger proportion of Gross National Product and a larger share of employment -- is increasingly shifting toward the knowledge field.
Knowledge society
: The foundation for the transformation of modern societies into knowledge societies is based on changes in the structure of the economies of advanced societies. The source of economic growth and value-adding activities -- increasingly relies on knowledge. The significance of knowledge grows in all spheres of life and in all social institutions of modern society.
Common sense and scientific knowledge: The growing significance of science and its manifold social utility has led to its having a virtual monopoly on the production of new socially, economically and politically relevant knowledge in modern societies; knowledge that rarely can be contested by religion, nor by politics, and in particular not by daily experience. But this does not mean that ordinary citizens are now the slaves of scientific experts.
Zeppelin University
Zeppelin University is a highly-selective, top-ranked, privately-funded research university in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The university was founded in 2003.- Overview :...
in Friedrichshafen / Germany and Founding Director of the European Center for Sustainability Research.
He received a PhD in sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
from the University of Oregon
University of Oregon
-Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :...
in 1970. Between 1967 and 2000, he taught at American and Canadian universities. His last appointment in Canada was that of fellow in Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study der University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. During the academic year 2002-2003 he was Paul-Lazarsfeld-Professor (a visiting appointment) at the University of Vienna. He is Senior Research Fellow of the Sustainable Development Research Institute, University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
, Vancouver, British Columbia, a fellow of the Fellow the Center for Advanved Study of the Humanities, Essen, Germany, editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology (until 2006) and a Fellow of the Royal Society (Canada).
His research interests center on the transformation of modern societies into knowledge societies and associated developments in different social institutions of modern society (e.g. science, politics, and the economy) and is focused on these field of attention:
Knowledge
Knowledge
Knowledge is a familiarity with someone or something unknown, which can include information, facts, descriptions, or skills acquired through experience or education. It can refer to the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject...
: Knowledge is not merely a model of reality but a model for reality. Knowledge represents a capacity to act.
Knowledge and information
Information
Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as...
: The substance of information primarily concerns the properties of products or outcomes while the stuff of knowledge refers to the qualities of process or inputs.
Post-Industrial society: Innovation are increasingly derivative from research and development; there is a new relation between science and technology because of the centrality of theoretical knowledge, and the weight of the society -- measured by a larger proportion of Gross National Product and a larger share of employment -- is increasingly shifting toward the knowledge field.
Knowledge society
Information society
The aim of the information society is to gain competitive advantage internationally through using IT in a creative and productive way. An information society is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic,...
: The foundation for the transformation of modern societies into knowledge societies is based on changes in the structure of the economies of advanced societies. The source of economic growth and value-adding activities -- increasingly relies on knowledge. The significance of knowledge grows in all spheres of life and in all social institutions of modern society.
Common sense and scientific knowledge: The growing significance of science and its manifold social utility has led to its having a virtual monopoly on the production of new socially, economically and politically relevant knowledge in modern societies; knowledge that rarely can be contested by religion, nor by politics, and in particular not by daily experience. But this does not mean that ordinary citizens are now the slaves of scientific experts.
Books
- (ed. with René Kõnig) Wissenschaftssoziologie. Studien und Matrialien. Sonderheft 18 der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychlogie (Westdeutscher Verlag, 1975); ISBN 3-531-11326-7
- (ed. with Volker Meja und David Kettler) Karl Mannheim, Strukturen des Denkens (Suhrkamp, 1981; second edition 2003) ISBN 978-0853126881
- (ed. with Volker Meja und David Kettler) Karl Mannheim: Structures of Thought (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982);
- (ed. with Volker Meja) Streit um die Wissenssoziologie (Suhrkamp, 1982); ISBN 978-3518279618
- (with Volker Meja und David Kettler) Karl Mannheim (Tavistock, 1984); ISBN 978-0853126881
- (ed. with Volker Meja und David Kettler) Karl Mannheim, Konservativismus (Suhrkamp, 1984; second edition 2003); ISBN 978-3518280782
- (ed. with Volker Meja) Knowledge and Society: Contemporary Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge (Transaction Books, 1984); ISBN 0-87855-493-9
- (ed. with Gernot Bõhme) Knowledge Society (D. Reidel Publishing, 1986); ISBN 978-9027723055
- Praktische Erkenntnis (Suhrkamp, 1991); ISBN 3-518-58099-X
- Practical Knowledge. Applying Social Science Knowledge (Sage, 1992); ISBN 0-8039-8699-8
- (ed. with Richard V. Ericson) The Culture and Power of Knowledge. Inquiries into Contemporary Societies (de Gruyter, 1992); ISBN 3-11-013175-7
- Knowledge Societies (Sage, 1994); ISBN 0-8039-7892-8
- Arbeit, Eigentum und Wissen: Zur Theorie von Wissensgesellschaften (Suhrkamp, 1994); ISBN 3-518-58187-2
- (with Hans von Storch) Klima-Wetter-Mensch (C.H. Beck, 1999); ISBN 3-406-44613-2
- (ed. with Volker Meja) The Sociology of Knowledge International Library of Sociology (Elgar, 1999); ISBN 1-85898-588-9
- Die Zerbrechlichkeit moderner Gesellschaften. Die Grenzen der Macht und die Chancen des Individuums (Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2000); ISBN 3-934730-18-3
- (ed. with Peter Weingart) Practising Interdisciplinarity (University of Toronto Press, 2000); ISBN 0-8020-4328-3
- (ed. with Richard V. Ericson) Governing Modern Societies (University of Toronto Press, 2000); ISBN 0802043925
- Wissen und Wirtschaften: Die gesellschaftlichen Grundlagen der modernen Ökonomie (Suhrkamp, 2001); ISBN 3-518-29107-6
- The Fragility of Modern Societies: Knowledge and Risk in the Information Age (Sage, 2001); ISBN 9780761953487
- (ed. with Reiner Grundmann) Werner Sombart, Economic Life in the Modern Age (Transaction Publishers, 2001); ISBN 0-7658-0030-6
- Knowledge and Economic Conduct. The Social Foundations of the Modern Economy (University of Toronto Press, 2002); ISBN 0-8020-0905-0
- Wissenspolitik: Die Überwachung des Wissens (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2003); ISBN 3-518-29215-3
- (ed.) The Governance of Knowledge (Transaction Publishers, 2004); ISBN 0-7658-0172-8
- (ed.) Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society (Transaction Publishers, 2004); ISBN 0-7658-0224-4
- (ed. with Christian Fleck) Die Gesellschaft des Terrors: Innansichten der KZs Dachau und Buchenwald (Suhrkamp, 2004); ISBN 9783518583975
- (ed. with Reiner Grundmann), Knowledge. Five Volumes (Routledge, 2005); ISBN 0-415-35341-6
- Knowledge Politics: Governing the Consequences of Science and Technology (Paradigm Books, 2005); ISBN 1-59451-086-5
- (ed. with Voker Meja) Society and Knowledge. Contemporary Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge and Science (Transaction Publishers, 2005)
- Die Moralisierung der Märkte (Suhrkamp, 2007); ISBN 0-7658-0295-3
- (ed. with Stephan A. Jansen and Birger P. Priddat) Die Zukunft des Oeffentlichen. Multipliziplinaere Perspektiven für eine Öffnung der Diskussion über das Öffentliche (VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007); ISBN 978-3-531-15282-0
- (ed. with Christian Fleck) Paul F. Lazarsfeld: Empirische Theorie des Handelns (Suhrkamp, 2007); ISBN 978-3-518-29422-2
- Moral Markets. How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers and Producers (Paradigm Publishers, 2008); ISBN 978-1-59451-456-2
- (ed. with Bernd Weiler) Who owns Knowledge? Knowledge and the Law (Transaction Publishers, 2008). ISBN 978-0-7658-0337-5
- (ed.) Knowledge and Democracy (Transaction Publishers, 2008). ISBN 978-1-4128-0706-7
- (ed. with Reiner Grundmann) Society Critical Concepts in Sociology. Four Volumes (Routledge, 2008); ISBN 978-0415426565
- (ed. with Stephan Jansen and Eckard Schroeter) Mehrwertiger Kapitalismus. Multidisziplinaere Beitraege zu Formen des Kapitalismus und seiner Kapitalien (VS-Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften, 2008); ISBN 978-3-531-15864-8
- (ed. with Hans von Storch) Eduard BrücknerEduard BrucknerEduard Brückner was an Austrian geographer, meteorologist, glaciologist and climate scientist.He was born in Jena, the son of the Baltic-German historian Alexander Brückner and Lucie Schiele. After an education at the Karlsruhe gymnasium, beginning in 1881 he studied meteorology and physics at the...
: Die Geschichte unseres Klimas: Klimaschwankungen und Klimafolgen (Österreichische Beiträge zu Meteorologie und Geophysik, 2008). - (ed. with Stephan Jansen and Eckard Schroeter) Rationalität der Kreativität. Multidisziplinäre Beiträge zur Analyse der Produktion, Organisation und Bildung von Kreativität. (VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009); ISBN 9783531166889
- (ed. with Gotthard Bechmann and Vitaly Gorekhov) The Social Integration of Science. Institutional and Epistemological Aspects of the Transformation of Knowledge in Modern Society. (Edition Sigma, 2009); ISBN 978-3-894049423
- (with Hans von Storch) Climate and Society . Climate as Resource, Climate as Risk. (World Scientific, 2010); ISBN 978-9814280532
- (with Hans von Storch) Klima Wetter Mensch . (Budrich Verlag, 2010); ISBN 978-3-86649-228-8