Knowledge of Society
Social action is based on rational orientation to other people (Max Weber).
This is mediated by communication (George Herbert Mead).
Communication and information exist in several external forms, as significant symbols, language,
written documents, databases and network information. The latter ones are transmitted in communications network.
Knowledge Management specifies organisation’s development and management by functions in knowledge development;
its transformation into conceptual information and further information development into knowledge through
socialization and internalization processes
(Nonaka, Ikujiro - Takeuchi, Hirotaka: The Knowledge-Creating
Company, 1995).
Global environments require enlarged considerations of Knowledge Management processes. Starting point
should be genuinely global information and knowledge delivered in all kinds of interaction, including
immediate interaction, organisations and ubiquitous communications networks.
Sociality is developing with forms of communications and information. When these are transforming global,
sociality shall be based on risk. In modern, industrial, and capitalist sociality this applies to economic
relations, in Information Society it applies to all social relationships.
