Societal Dynamics: Understanding Social Knowledge and Wisdom

by Frederick Betz

Book Overview

At both a micro-information level and a macro-societal level, the concepts of "knowledge" and "wisdom" are complementary - in both decisions and in social structures and institutions. At the decision level, knowledge is concerned with how to make a proper choice of means, where "best" is measured as the efficiency toward achieving an end. Wisdom is concerned with how to make a proper choice of ends that attain "best" values.

At a societal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461412773
• ISBN13: 9781461412779
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"