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5. Jan. 2010 · Intellectuals and Society. T. Sowell. Published 5 January 2010. Political Science, Sociology. This title offers a withering and clear-eyed critique about (but not for) intellectuals that explores their impact on public opinion, policy, and society at large. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power ...
Sowell, one of America’s most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society. He warns that society suffers from an ever-widening gap between firsthand knowledge and decision making—a gap that threatens not only our economic and political efficiency but our very freedom.
26. Mai 2012 · LSE Review of Books. Editor. May 26th, 2012. 1 comment | 24 shares. Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. This book review of Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society, originally published in 2012, has been removed. The original review included the line ‘easy for a rich white man to say’ in reference to the book’s author, Thomas Sowell.
16. Dez. 2009 · The author of more than a dozen books, Dr. Sowell is now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. In his newest work, Intellectuals and Society, he will di...
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1. März 2010 · Intellectuals have two ways of influencing society, according to Sowell. Usually, he explains, their influence is not direct, but rather exerted indirectly on society by what he calls “the intelligentsia,” and defines thus: “Around a more or less solid core of producers of ideas there is a penumbra of those whose role is the use and dissemination of those ideas.
The article then argues that three main traditions of analysis inform the sociological study of intellectuals: class theories, theories of classlessness, and theories of shifting social networks. It is argued that the third of these traditions is the most fruitful. Evidence to support this claim is drawn from analyses of the social conditions that lead intellectuals to assume various ...
While his much earlier masterpiece, Conflict of Visions (1987), could arguably be on the list as well, I believe that his newest book, Intellectuals and Society, is not just Sowell at his finest but is perhaps the very essence of conservative thinking at its finest. The book is remarkably readable, extremely practical, and most of all, is such a lethal combination of head shots and body blows ...
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