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- Title
Knowledge elites and class war.
- Authors
Jasanoff, Sheila
- Abstract
Presents an essay on how knowledge acts as an instrument of social separation in technologically advanced societies. Economic and political consequences; Growing sentiment among the knowledge elite that public decision-making should be left to the experts who control specialized information; Example of the United States legal process; Need to promote the integration of expert knowledge with lay perceptions of facts and values; Outlook for law reform in the US.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOCIAL distance; EXPERTISE -- Social aspects; AMERICAN law; LAW reform -- Social aspects; SOCIAL classes
- Publication
Nature, 1999, Vol 401, Issue 6753, p531
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/44021