عنوان

Gossip, Epistemology, and Power

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97833194784019783319478395 )Print(

عنوان اصلي

Gossip, Epistemology, and Power

نام نخستين پديدآور

by Karen Adkins

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Palgrave Macmillan

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2017

نام خاص و کميت اثر

XI, 295 p., online resource.

متن يادداشت

Chapter 1: Introduction: Some Loose Talk About Gossip -- Chapter 2: Gossips Bad Reputation -- Chapter 3: The Word on the Street: Gossips Contributions to Knowledge -- Chapter 4: Failure to Communicate: Gossip as Institutional Conflict -- Chapter 5: Rumors Help the Enemy! Gossip in Politics -- Chapter 6: Weaponized Gossip -- Chapter 7: Gossip in the Ether: How the Internet Does, and Doesnt, Change Gossip -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Schools for Scandal. This book explains how gossip contributes to knowledge. Karen Adkins marshals scholarship and case studies spanning centuries and disciplines to show that although gossip is a constant activity in human history, it has rarely been studied as a source of knowledge. People gossip for many reasons, but most often out of desire to make sense of the world while lacking access to better options for obtaining knowledge. This volume explores how, when our access to knowledge is blocked, gossip becomes a viable path to knowledge attainment, one that involves the asking of questions, the exchange of ideas, and the challenging of preconceived notions. .

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Knowledge Underground

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Philosophy

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Epistemology

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Social sciences, Philosophy

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Philosophy

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Epistemology

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Social Theory

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نشانه اثر

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Adkins, Karen.

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نوع ماده

English Book