The Library and the Workshop: Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age
Published:
2009
Online ISBN:
9780804772921
Print ISBN:
9780804762632
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Community Community
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Society Society
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Knowledge and the Virtues of Citizenship Knowledge and the Virtues of Citizenship
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Equality and Meritocracy: The Lift and the Ladder Equality and Meritocracy: The Lift and the Ladder
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Learning Societies: Conclusion Learning Societies: Conclusion
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Cite
Andersson, Jenny, 'Knowledge Societies', The Library and the Workshop: Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age (Redwood City, CA , 2009; online edn, Stanford Scholarship Online, 20 June 2013), https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804762632.003.0007, accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
This chapter examines the social democratic vision of the knowledge society and its interpretation of the social organization of knowledge as equality or meritocracy. It discusses the differences between New Labour's meritocratic notion of community and the Social Democratic Party's more egalitarian notion of society as samhälle. The chapter also explains that in contemporary social democracy, meritocracy is considered a vision of society as organized around individual talent informed by the human capital argument where differentiation of people according to talent is motivated by the economic desire to make the most of the “best brains.”
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