2. Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or
understanding of someone or something,
such as facts, information, descriptions, or
skills, which is acquired through experience
or education by perceiving, discovering, or
learning. Knowledge can refer to a theoretical
or practical understanding of a subject
KNOWLEDGE
ASOCIETY IS group of people living as a
community or an organized group of people
for a common purpose
SOCIETY
3. - refers to a society in which the creation, dissemination, and
utilization of information and knowledge has become the most
important factor of production.
THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
- It is a term to describe societies which are economically and
culturally characterized by a high degree of dependency on their
potentials to create scientific and technological knowledge.
knowledge societies are about capabilities to identify, produce,
process, transform, disseminate and use information to build and
apply knowledge for human development. (Source: UNESCO
2005b).
4. 1) The mass production, transmission, and application of knowledge is dominant;
CHARACTERISTICS
2) Most commodities' prices are determined by the knowledge required for their development and
sale, rather than the raw materials or physical labor required to manufacture them;
3) A large portion of the population attains higher education;
4) A vast majority of the population have access to information and communication technologies
and to the Internet;
5) A large portion of the labor force are knowledge workers who need a high degree of education
and experience to perform their job well;
6) Both individuals and the state invest heavily in education and research and development; and
7) Organizations are forced to innovate continually.
6. IMPORTANCE AND POWER OF
KNOWLEDGE IN SOCIETY
Individual or a nation can achieve prosperity and power through
KNOWLEDGE. Its acquisition becomes essential everywhere in the world.
“A nation qualifies as a knowledge society, if it deals with
knowledge creation and knowledge deployment effectively. A
society can be declared as prosperous if it has the ability to
create and maintain the knowledge infrastructure to enhance
skills and increase productivity. ‘
7. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN
KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
What will be the class structure of knowledge society? Who will become richer and
who poorer?
BOTTOM - workers who offer personal services
MIDDLE - production workers in factories or offices performing simple,
repetitive tasks
TOP - symbolic analysts who solve, identify, and broker problems by
manipulating symbols
According to Robert Reich (1991), there is a three-tiered workforce in the most
advanced economies.
8. SUMMARY:
The knowledge society can be used to improve the human condition. A knowledge
society differs from an information society in that the former converts information into
resources that enable society to take effective action, whereas the latter only creates
and disseminates raw data.
The primary role of nations in a knowledge society is to ensure that their knowledge
sources are passed on and advanced by each generation.
Attaining a knowledge society is not ensured but must be actively supported.
In Knowledge society, there is no clear-cut threshold from which societies
become knowledge societies. It is more about processes (knowledge
production, learning, innovation, and creativity) than about fulfilling static
objectives.
