Knowledge Resistance - How We Avoid Insight From Others

Concerns about people's resistance to facts and knowledge are becoming increasingly serious. This book draws on the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to provide an integrated understanding of the phenomenon.

List of contents

1 Introduction
2 What knowledge resistance isn't and a hint at what it is
3 If you're with us, don't believe them
4 Why invalid claims can be valuable
5 Knowledge belief first, confirming evidence second
6 What's in it for me to know that?
7 When knowledge is responsibility and ignorance freedom
8 What if the earth is round? Concerns about cultural consequences
9 How to resist knowledge resistance - and when
10 Is knowledge resistance always bad, and other questions
Index

About the author

Mikael Klintman is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Lund and a former Wallenberg Fellow of Environment and Sustainability at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of several books, most recently Knowledge Resistance: How We Avoid Insight from Others (2019). His work has been featured in the Times, the Times Literary Supplement and on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed.

Summary

Concerns about people's resistance to facts and knowledge are becoming increasingly serious. This book draws on the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to provide an integrated understanding of the phenomenon. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Mikael Klintman
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781526151742
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5174-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Knowledge Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Knowledge Capital, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, Social, group or collective psychology, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge