Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 2 / 2008 (519)
What is the Knowledge Society?
Academia de Studii Economice, Bucuresti
Abstract. This study sets out to establish conceptual delimitations, more concordant to the theoretical acquisitions with regard to the knowledge society. The author considers it opportune to situate in the center of the definition of the concept of knowledge society the problem of prevalence in the typology of resources. Thus, the knowledge society appears as a form of organization in which scientific knowledge predominates, be that informatics as well. The concordances of essence are discovered through the discerning of the functional relationship knowledge society – global society. In the spectrum of meanings specific to this highway of post-postmodernist configuration of the world, the priorities of the project of the second modernity – the paradigmatic matrix of globalization – are approached. In fact, the study argues in favor of refocusing globalization on the humane, on its distinctive values which substantiate and lend sense to the evolutions of the world. Postreferentiality is the rational expression of humanity coming back to itself.
Keywords: the principle of critical mass; postreferentiality; the second modernity; the substance of globalization.
Contents
- The Processual Programming Essentials – Criticism and New Options
Ion Gh. Rosca
George Moldoveanu
Octavian Thor Pleter
Cosmin Dobrin
- “Globalisation of Corruption” and Development
of the Binom “Corruption – Public Integrity” in the Context of Romania Integration into the European Union
Lucica Matei
Ani Matei
- Fiscal Policy Stance in the Euro Area
Marius-Corneliu Marinas
- Determining the Efficiency Frontier
Leonardo Badea
- Considerations Regarding the Conflict Management
Aurel Manolescu
Alecxandrina Deaconu
- Typological Analysis of Buying Actions
Nicolae Teodorescu
Nicolae Al. Pop
Felicia-Aurelia Stancioiu
- The Competitiveness of Romanian Services Exports
Corina Grigorovici
- What is the Knowledge Society?
Marin Dinu