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While consumers are recognized as valuing market goods and services for the activities they can construct from them in the frameworks of several disciplines, consequences of the characteristics of goods and services they use in these activities have not been well studied. In this book, knowledge-yielding and conventional goods and services are contrasted as factors in the construction of activities that consumers engage in when they are not in the workplace. Consumers are seen as deciding on non-work activities and the inputs to these activities according to their objectives, and the values and accumulated skills they hold. It is suggested that knowledge content in these activities can be efficient for consumer objectives and also have important externalities through its effect on productivity at work and economic growth. The exposition seeks to elaborate these points and contribute to multi-disciplinary dialogue on consumption. Introduction: Consuming Knowledge Dimensioning Consumption: The Use of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities The Construct of the Valuing of Knowledge and Personal Consumption Expenditure in the U.S. National Accounts 1929-1989 The Interaction of Non-Work and Work Activities: Cross-Domain Transfers of Skill and Affect Integrating Non-Work Activities into Frameworks of Economic Growth Directions for the Study of Knowledge Use in Non-Work Activities

This book provides new insights on cities and the nature of urban development, and the role of knowledge management in urban growth. It considers how knowledge informs policies and supports decision making, and can assist in addressing the drivers of urban change. The way that knowledge is produced and used in urban development is analysed, with examples drawn from a range of European countries. This book illustrates how the development and implementation of policies for urban areas can draw on knowledge management, even as the knowledge economy itself stimulates the evolution of the city as a

Religion plays a central role in nearly every aspect in people's life of most pre-modern cultures. Especially the interconnection between religion and politics is a common fact but the details of this relation and interacting processes behind this are not substantially studied. Therefore, this volume does not aim to confirm the linkage of religion and politics in general but to investigate its functionalities in political processes. A focus is placed on the political role of religious personnel beyond their religious and cultic tasks and their influence in pre-modern societies from a cross-cultural perspective. Specialists from various disciplines present their research based on case studies. Thereby this interdisciplinary volume covers a wide geographical and chronological range from ancient Egypt in the Bronze Age until medieval England. These papers are organised according to core functions questioning the instrumentalisation of religious personnel. ; Religion plays a central role in nearly every aspect in people's life of most pre-modern cultures. Especially the interconnection between religion and politics is a common fact but the details of this relation and interacting processes behind this are not substantially studied. Therefore, this volume does not aim to confirm the linkage of religion and politics in general but to investigate its functionalities in political processes. A focus is placed on the political role of religious personnel beyond their religious and cultic tasks and their influence in pre-modern societies from a cross-cultural perspective. Specialists from various disciplines present their research based on case studies. Thereby this interdisciplinary volume covers a wide geographical and chronological range from ancient Egypt in the Bronze Age until medieval England. These papers are organised according to core functions questioning the instrumentalisation of religious personnel.

Modern politics is highly science-dependent and knowledge-driven. What is the rightful role of expert knowledge in political life? How can the truth claims of science be reconciled with principles of democratic control and lay participatory rights in decision-making? This collection of essays by political scientists, sociologists and economists from Germany, France and Norway provides different empirical and theoretical analyses of the complex organising and legitimising power of knowledge in political governance. The authors shed light on key dimensions and dilemmas that have shaped the world

Copyright page /Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk --Advance Praise for Professional Power and Skill Use in the 'Knowledge Economy': A Class Analysis /Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk --Acknowledgements /Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk --List of Tables /Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk --About the Authors /Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk --Introduction Professional Power and Skill Use /Author: D.W. Livingstone --Chapter 1 The Emergent Class Structure of Professionals in Advanced Capitalist 'Knowledge Economies' /Author: D.W. Livingstone --Chapter 2 Comparing Power and Working Conditions of Professional Employees and Other Employment Classes /Author: D.W. Livingstone --Chapter 3 The Rise and Polarisation of Managers and Professional Managers /Author: D.W. Livingstone --Chapter 4 Declining Power, Increasing Underemployment and Learning Challenges for Professional Employees in 'Knowledge Economies' /Author: D.W. Livingstone --Chapter 5 Comparing Engineers, Nurses, Professionals in General and the General Labour Force /Author: D.W. Livingstone --Chapter 6 Engineers, Skills, and Intra-Professional Inequalities /Author: Tracey L. Adams --Chapter 7 Nurses, Skills, and Intra-Professional Inequalities /Authors: Edward V. Cruz and Peter H. Sawchuk --Chapter 8 Ethical Dilemmas and Workplace Change /Authors: Tracey L. Adams and Peter H. Sawchuk --Conclusion Waning Power, Wasted Skill /Author: D.W. Livingstone --Appendix 1 List of Quoted Interviewees /Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk --Appendix 2 Regulatory Licensing Status of Professionals /Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk --Index /Authors: D.W. Livingstone , Tracey L. Adams , and Peter H. Sawchuk.

"Ausgehend von der Betrachtung, dass Wissen das zentralste Medium einer Wissenschaft ist, widmet sich dieser Beitrag einer Status- und Entwicklungsanalyse für die Wissensstrukturen der Sozialpsychologie. Anhand verschiedener wissensbasierter Prozesse werden konkrete Möglichkeiten aufgezeigt, die sowohl nachhaltig zum Erkenntnisgewinn in unserer Disziplin beitragen, als auch der mitunter breit aufgestellten Sozialpsychologie wieder eine geteilte Perspektive geben könnten. Vorausgesetzt, wir finden den Mut, uns nicht nur inhaltlich, sondern auch strukturell zu entwickeln." (Autorenreferat)