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Stephen Turner and the Philosophy of the Social

SYSNO ASEP	0548933
Document Type	M - Monograph Chapter
R&D Document Type	Monograph Chapter
Title	Sociology, expertise and civility
Author(s)	Holmwood, John (FLU-F)_{ORCID, RID, SAI}
Source Title	Stephen Turner and the Philosophy of the Social. - Leiden : Brill, 2021 / Adair-Toteff Ch. - ISSN 0303-8157 - ISBN 978-90-04-44959-6
Pages	s. 221-239
Number of pages	19 s.
Number of pages	270
Publication form	Print - P
Language	eng - English
Country	US - United States
Keywords	democracy ; knowledge ; professions
Subject RIV	AO - Sociology, Demography
OECD category	Social sciences, interdisciplinary
Institutional support	FLU-F - RVO:67985955
DOI	10.1163/9789004449602_013
Annotation	This chapter discusses Steven Turner’s contribution to the role of expertise in liberal democracy. It addresses the shift from expertise understood as certain knowledge that can be applied to policy problems to the role of expertise as staging arguments for public consideration. Drawing on Talcott Parsons’s arguments about the relation between the professions and the modern citizenship complex, the chapter argues that the current problem of expertise lies in the dismantling of citizenship associated with neo-liberal policies, which have created the conditions for populist partisanship. The marketization of higher education has also facilitated the presentation of knowledge as the expression of interests. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the problem of expertise is better understood as a problem of democracy where the issue is less the contested nature of knowledge claims and more a new incivility - that undermines the staging of arguments in public domains.
Workplace	Institute of Philosophy
Contact	Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360
Year of Publishing	2022

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