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- Title
REPLY TO DICKINSON.
- Authors
Lane, Robert E.
- Abstract
The article presents the author's reply to a previous article on the subject "Knowing in the Knowledgeable Society." The uses of knowledge depend upon the knower's values. The author would not argue that there was a necessary relationship between knowledge and humaneness such that a more humane society must be the product of a more knowledgeable one. It is, however, true, that the more well-educated are generally less authoritarian than the less well-educated, less ethnocentric, more internationally minded, less punitive in their concepts of justice and more trusting towards others. There are, of course, good reasons for this, but they cannot be explored. Ideological thinking has several elements; it is defensive thinking where ideas and knowledge are used to defend an ego-involved view of the world and where this view is relatively impermeable to new information. In letters and conversation several people have criticized the notion that knowledgeability causes a decline of politics, rather than simply posing new alternatives, and, in that sense, expanding the possibilities of political action.
- Subjects
HUMANITY; CONDUCT of life; SOCIAL systems; SOCIAL structure; RIGHTS; JUSTICE; IDEOLOGY
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1967, Vol 32, Issue 2, p303
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article