Knowledge society  

Wissensgesellschaft   (german)

used for: Information society

Term for a social formation in which knowledge becomes the dominant principle of social cohesion

Related Terms

• Knowledge  
• Knowledge economy  
• Post-industrial society  
• Sociology of knowledge  

Subject Categories

• N.06.02.01 Social orders  
• V.04.04 Technological change and innovation  

Links to other Thesauri and Vocabularies

=	Informationsgesellschaft   (from GND)
=	knowledge society   (from Wikidata)
~	information society   (from Wikidata)
~	Information Age   (from Wikidata)
=	Knowledge society   (from DBpedia)
≅	information society   (from EuroVoc)
≅	knowledge economy   (from EuroVoc)
=	information society   (from TheSoz)
=	knowledge society   (from TheSoz)
~	informatization   (from TheSoz)

Persistent Identifier (for bookmarking and linking)

• http://zbw.eu/stw/descriptor/16604-2