Matthias Gross

Beginning with the constructivist school of sociology, Berger and Luckman 'Social Construction of Reality" observing discourses, movement of ideals and narrations was my systematic passion. Agnotology was of slight interest until I've encountered apophatic schools of theology, or negative theology. This interdisciplinary critical and important book enriched the field of sociology of ignorance tremendously. In the modern world splits across belief-systems, lack of trust, non-cooperation are the results of socially construed structural ignorance, partially engineered, partially inbuilt in the international system, further alienating and moving people away from each other. Exploring policies that manage resources of nescience and activate ethical projects instead of confusing and rearranging existing ignorance capital for political self-serving aims would be of great utility. So much for naivety, it is a golden mine of ideas, sociology of ignorance and its theorems are both helping to grasp the "unks unks" (unknown unknowns) and furnish them with a methodology to explore what we don't know we don't know to learn and know better, and help to guide in ethical judgments and decisions over data management, distribution, dissemination and moving people closer to decision making processes in adaptable and approachable ways. This is merely an unfit personal comment of a self-educating civilian, however, I would gladly recommend this book to anyone who wants to observe the events in the world in a more systemic way, re-lensing the view on past, present and future.… (mais)

Beginning with the constructivist school of sociology, Berger and Luckman 'Social Construction of Reality" observing discourses, movement of ideals and narrations was my systematic passion. Agnotology was of slight interest until I've encountered apophatic schools of theology, or negative theology. This interdisciplinary critical and important book enriched the field of sociology of ignorance tremendously. In the modern world splits across belief-systems, lack of trust, non-cooperation are the results of socially construed structural ignorance, partially engineered, partially inbuilt in the international system, further alienating and moving people away from each other. Exploring policies that manage resources of nescience and activate ethical projects instead of confusing and rearranging existing ignorance capital for political self-serving aims would be of great utility. So much for naivety, it is a golden mine of ideas, sociology of ignorance and its theorems are both helping to grasp the "unks unks" (unknown unknowns) and furnish them with a methodology to explore what we don't know we don't know to learn and know better, and help to guide in ethical judgments and decisions over data management, distribution, dissemination and moving people closer to decision making processes in adaptable and approachable ways. This is merely an unfit personal comment of a self-educating civilian, however, I would gladly recommend this book to anyone who wants to observe the events in the world in a more systemic way, re-lensing the view on past, present and future.… (mais)

Beginning with the constructivist school of sociology, Berger and Luckman 'Social Construction of Reality" observing discourses, movement of ideals and narrations was my systematic passion. Agnotology was of slight interest until I've encountered apophatic schools of theology, or negative theology. This interdisciplinary critical and important book enriched the field of sociology of ignorance tremendously. In the modern world splits across belief-systems, lack of trust, non-cooperation are the results of socially construed structural ignorance, partially engineered, partially inbuilt in the international system, further alienating and moving people away from each other. Exploring policies that manage resources of nescience and activate ethical projects instead of confusing and rearranging existing ignorance capital for political self-serving aims would be of great utility. So much for naivety, it is a golden mine of ideas, sociology of ignorance and its theorems are both helping to grasp the "unks unks" (unknown unknowns) and furnish them with a methodology to explore what we don't know we don't know to learn and know better, and help to guide in ethical judgments and decisions over data management, distribution, dissemination and moving people closer to decision making processes in adaptable and approachable ways. This is merely an unfit personal comment of a self-educating civilian, however, I would gladly recommend this book to anyone who wants to observe the events in the world in a more systemic way, re-lensing the view on past, present and future.… (mais)