The western devaluation of knowledge /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Osburn, Charles B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the ways and means of cultural change
  • Science, industry and the invention of a new worldview
  • Management as cultural authority
  • The cultural values of work and leisure
  • The strategy & spirit of capitalism
  • From material need to consumer culture
  • Higher learning as marketplace
  • Globalization of the tightening systems knot
  • Time to think
  • Balancing values through cultural change
  • Progress and myth
  • Knowledge devalued: summary & conclusions.