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Faced with rapid advances in human genetics, policy makers are struggling to come to grips with a host of complex ethical, legal and social questions. The HUMGEN website gives policy makers and the public access to legislation, policy, guidelines and recommendations of government and nongovernmental organizations worldwide.

This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Their work spans the social sciences, humanities, and the law. Those scholars examine the nature of family and the intersection of family and law, the way contexts shape legal actors, and the nature of rights and resistance. The articles published here exemplify the exciting and innovative work now being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock

The two revolutions -- The kinetic nation -- The Immigration Act of 1965 -- The multiracial state -- Common wealth -- The privileged classes -- Out of status -- Local, state, and federal -- The great divide -- The future of American migrations -- Epilogue

Die aktuellen Umbrüche im globalen Kapitalismus induzieren neue Organisationsformen in Märkten und Unternehmen. Dies führt zu einer neuartigen Rolle von Information, zum andauernden Prozess der Informatisierung in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren. Neu ist die reale Existenz eines weltumspannenden sozio-technischen Systems, in dem die Generierung, Kommunikation und Verarbeitung von Wissen zunehmend zur entscheidenden Produktionsbedingung wird. Information ist eine Formalisierung von Realität. Daher kommt die wachsende Bedeutung, die Wissen, Wissenserschließung und Wissensvermittlung in der heutigen Gesellschaft einnehmen. Die angewachsene Rolle des Wissens in der Gesellschaft geht mit einer wichtiger gewordenen Rolle des Subjekts in Produktions- und Verwaltungsprozessen einher. (ICE2)