Paul Feyerabend's (1975, 1978) attack on Big Science is more relevant than ever before.
His opposition to the state's support for what he called Big Science is now becoming a reality …

The university has become the subject of much critical debate in the social sciences in
recent years. While earlier interpretations, such as those of Weber (see Shils, 1973) …

Drawing from current debates in social theory about the changing nature of knowledge, this
book offers the most comprehensive sociological theory of the university that has yet …

For centuries, the processes of social differentiation associated with Modernity have often
been thought to intensify the need for site-specific forms of role training and knowledge …

This paper offers a broad-scale perspective on the university as a social technology for the
production of universal knowledge, centered at first around two basic questions: If universal …

The existence of conflicting messages on the role and status of the university is linked to a
wider paradox of values about science in society. Value is attributed to science and …

SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY AS CRITIC OF THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY AND DEFENDER
OF THE UNIVERSITY Social epistemology is concerned with how and what we should …

In this paper I ask whether the University has a special role to play in democratic societies. I
argue that the modern University can no longer lay claim to a research monopoly since …

To all appearances higher education in both the EU and the US has turned into a more
fashionable topic for politicians and journalists than it was ten years ago1. Since rumor has it …

Jointly authored by a team of distinguished scholars spanning a number of disciplines, The
New Production of Knowledge maps changes in the mode of knowledge production and the …