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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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. -- .

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mikael Klintman
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.12.2020
• Categoria: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Altro
• EAN: 9781526151742
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5174-2
• Numero di pagine: 264
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14 x 21.5 x 1.5 cm
• Categorie: Fake News, Sociology, Climate Change, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Knowledge Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Knowledge Capital, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, Denial, Social, group or collective psychology, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, vaccination, Strategic Ignorance, Fact resistance; Knowledge resistance; Ignorance studies; strategic ignorance; epistemic uncertainty; knowledge tribes; climate change; vaccination; denial; fake news; fact resistance; knowledge resistance; ignorance studies, ignorance studies, epistemic uncertainty, knowledge resistance, knowledge tribes