Knowledge Matters: The Structures Of Knowledge And Crisis Of The Modern World-System (Creative Economy & Innovation Culture)

Knowledge Matters: The Structures of Knowledge and Crisis of the Modern World-System (Creative Economy & Innovation Culture)

Economic changes and political changes which emerged with the modern capitalist world-economy were accompanied in the sociocultural domain by changes in the structures of knowledge. These included the hierarchical separation of the realm of facts from that of values, institutionalized as a division between the sciences and the humanities. The social sciences responded to contradictions inherent in this structure over the nineteenth century in producing knowledge on which policy decisions could be based.